The top Power Duos (Recruiting Wise) in America

The Top Power Duos in America Recruiting Wise

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The Future and Making Her Future:

Kari Knotts 2029 OH and Janie Meyers 2028 Setter A5 have some absolute options on the pins that are going to make the college coaches flock to Atlanta nightly for the 2028s and the 2029s, so we had a couple of ways to go here, and that also speaks to the depth of the club and its strength. In the end, you have to put the top prospect in the USA System and the first real phenom that volleyball has seen in Kari Knotts. Her 299 PPV is as good as we can give someone as a Freshman, so yes, she is that good. 

Now the setter part of the duo is Janie Meyers, a 2028 prospect who has bordered on the Red and Elite Red levels, has had some great prep success, and has a real chance to shoot up the charts this season. She will have all of the eyes she needs on her, so her play will dictate her future because everyone will see her in action and probably in the practice gym, so she will not be a secret.

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Combined PPV: 513

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More than talented enough, just not talked about enough

Alex Knox and Leah Greeny, 2028s 3DGE. The duo plays at a new club in Pittsburgh, even though Greeny is from West Virginia, and they incorporate some of the Steel City's characteristics. You won’t hear a lot of talk or hype on these two (even though they should get much more), but they both play the game hard, smart, and compete like no other. They have always played up with older athletes and will play with 17s this season.

Alex Knox is a Gold Level Prospect with a PPV of 284 now. When you look at her Player Profile, it’s the way a great prospect should look. Just a steady stream of tiny bumps of progress and a little setback of regression. She has improved by 16 total points since creating a profile and continually proves herself in the Big Gym, playing incredibly steady, high-level volleyball. Coaches are noticing, though America just doesn’t seem to be. We have her as the #3 evaluated setter in the class and that may never happen again considering she is only a few points from being a Diamond Prospect herself, think about that.

Leah Greeny, OH, West Virginia prospect, who is still an unknown in the volleyball world, even to use really. But when she created her Player Profile last summer, we learned a lot from a little. Her PPV is a 251, and here is what matters (and the profile hasn’t been updated lately, so some of these could have changed??) 74” height and 124” approach touch; legit six-rotation outside who passes just as well as she attacks. High volleyball IQ that makes this tandem great together. But if you are going to two Select Camps that we have quite a bit of respect for, Pitt and Kentucky will be on that list. That tells us this is an under-the-radar, but highly talented, volleyball player with the physical and volleyball skills to play at a Top 15 program.

You combine this duo, and there will be a lot of recruiting inquiries for both of them this entire season, as there should be

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Combined PPV: 535

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This Duo WILL Continue The Top Recruit LEGACY:

Kaelyn Easton and Lexi Coleman 2029s Legacy Volleyball

Now, this duo you have heard of. National Champs and Gold medalists for the U17 national team, the Legacy teammates are used to the headlines and have been to the big camps and interviews. This duo that has no problem with the spotlight at all, and college coaches can find their way to their club gym blindfolded, so they will be seen or may already have been seen by most, even though they are 2029s.

Kaelyn Easton is a Silver Level prospect and currently has 253 PPV. Easton is a leader and communicator on the floor and controls the flow with so much talent around her; that’s a big plus. Location and the ability to connect with her attackers, no matter how much time she has spent with them, are strengths. Another thing that is rather refreshing about Easton is that, in a run of having a majority of the top setters very reserved and quiet, it is excellent to have Kaelyn, who has an outgoing personality and is happy to do interviews and talk about the position and the game, etc. She has the “it factor,” which also plays a bigger role every year in the “new college volleyball.

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Lexi Colemanis a  Diamond Level prospect and 293 PPV. We had Coleman as a Top 5 overall prospect in the USA System any class in our recent America’s 200, and there was a good reason for that. It’s hard to have the dominance gene she possesses at her age. Many times, that takes a couple of years to figure out, and sometimes great players will never truly get that drive the way that Coleman already has the fire inside of her. I think what makes her special is the way she outwardly portrays it. Oftentimes, athletes so driven can be tough to be around when things don’t go their team's way or when others don’t play as well as they did, etc. Coleman isn’t like that and is often considered one of the best teammates around. Competitive, yes; driven extremely, born for greatness, absolutely; horrible teammate, absolutely not. She is excellent at helping others and pushing them. She has zero problem jumping in with athletes 3 and 4 years older to compete in a game she wants to play as well as she can in a drill, scrimmage, nationals, Final Four, or the Olympics. Stop me if you have heard me say this phrase before: “Great athletes that are great people are elementary to cheer for.

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Combined PPV: 546

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Who? There from Where?

Josalyn Samuels 2028 Setter and Julia Masselink 2029 OH Kairos Volleyball

I remember having the Kairos coaches in our suite each year at the Final Four, and I would always ask the new names I needed to know, “Is there any D1 talent coming?” One year of one of them said to me, “You're going to tell me to shut up, but right now we have a setter who could be more highly recruited than Bergen (Reilly), and honestly, our best prospect EVER is a 5th grader.” Well, they never lied to me, and both of those were high-pressure. Both of those young ladies have lived up to them, and that is why two prospects from South Dakota might be the most highly recruited Power Duo in America right now! 

Josalyn Samuels, our newest Diamond Level prospect and 290 PPV. Two different “scouts” asked last week during our NTDP coverage, “Why is Samuels so many points behind A’ainu for #1 setter,” and so that was something that was seriously looked at. Maybe more film was viewed on the Harrisburg, SD athlete than anyone else from last weekend, and regardless of what another setter did, you had to look at Samuels and say her game was very, very good in Colorado. With her physical stats, she deserved that bump to Diamond.

Also, we will talk about this again soon, but Setter recruiting is in the eye of the coach evaluating, so schools could look at four of these girls completely differently, but Samuels should have been on the National team and looked very good this week.

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Julia Masselink Gold Level prospect and 274 PPV. This was Masselink’s best NTDP, and we truly believe she was the best passing outside in the program. We have said this several times; she is just stuck in a class of unicorns, or she might have been the #1 OH if she were a 2028. She was also on the U17 that won gold this past summer, and though she doesn’t say much, her game has done plenty of talking for her on the national stage. Athletes and coaches know who she is, yet again, because you have a few of the biggest recruits and personalities EVER in the sport, and Julia goes unmentioned. This is a gold prospect that I promise you would go unmentioned if you asked most people to name 10 OHs in 2029. She is still growing, and her explosion and strength have not even become words in the vocabulary of her game yet! When they do, and that might not be until Freshman year, you're going to have one fundamentally sound monster on your hands.

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Combined PPV: 564

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Let us know some other duos we should talk about. Remember, we didn’t use rankings; we went off PPV scores and combos of 2028s and 2029s.