Prep Volleyball- The Iowa Girls Coaches Association (IGCA) released their All-District volleyball teams for the 2025 season and southeast Iowa put 18 names on the list with Burlington Notre Dame and Wapello leading the pack with four players each.
Class 3A
Helping lead Washington to their first 20-plus win season in the past two decades was Leighton Messinger, as the two-time Southeast Conference (SEC) Player of the Year earned All-District honors. The senior led the conference in kills with 320 and finished second in efficiency with a mark of 0.271. Messinger finished her career with 1,142 kills.
Jayden Mueller of Central Lee also found a spot on the All-District team. Mueller led the Southeast Iowa Super Conference South division in digs with 566 for the season. She also added 49 assists and 12 aces. The senior finished her career with 1,684 digs.
Class 2A
West Burlington had a pair of Falcons make the All-District team in Kyleigh Applegate and Baylee Woodsmall. Applegate was all over the court, accumulating 167 kills, 207 digs, and 26 aces for the season. Woodsmall was a distributor with 794 assists, and she finished second on the team in digs and aces.
The libero for Columbus Jocelyn Hernandez tabbed a team leading 325 digs to go along with 28 aces for the Wildcats.
Lastly, Ashlynn Huff of Van Buren County claimed a spot on the All-District Team behind 326 kills and a kill efficiency of 0.272. Huff also added 284 digs and 27 aces to the season’s effort. Huff finished her career with nearly 600 kills.
Class 1A
Class 1A for southeast Iowa was packed with local talent as Burlington Notre Dame and Wapello each put four players on the All-District list, while Holy Trinity Catholic took four spots.
For Burlington Notre Dame, Addi Brockway collected a solid senior season with 342 kills on a kill efficiency of 0.248. Brockway also roofed 28 shots and tabbed 25 aces. Brockway finished her career with 704 kills. Another year and another freshman setter for the Nikes, Ainsley Conrad put together 739 assists and 60 kills in her first high school season.
Emma Elmore was in charge of setting last year but was moved to libero this year and took over like she had played there her entire career. The sophomore led the team with 450 digs and finished second on the team in aces with 39.
Lastly, Chloe Wenzel found a spot on the All-District Team for the Nikes. Wenzel put up 262 kills and for the third straight season led the team in blocks with 91. Moreover, she complied 48 aces to lead the team. Wenzel finished her career with 460 kills and 239 blocks.
Wapello nearly pulled off the upset in the regional semifinal, coming back from down two sets to zero, but the Arrows were able to win the SEISC-North for the third straight season thanks, in large part, to a quartet of players.
Annaka Greiner dished out 357 assists and generated 77 kills in the two-setter offense. The junior also added 230 digs and 20 aces. Helping Greiner out was freshman Taeya Wagner, who actually led the team with 411 assists as she tabbed 87 kills and 34 aces for the Arrows.
Mila Jordan already showed her metal in her freshman campaign, yet she improved in just about every category in her sophomore season. Jordan put up 308 kills with an efficiency of 0.209. She was nearly unstoppable from the service line with a team leading 72 aces.
Lastly, Mya Wagner, a junior, led the team with 639 digs as the squad’s libero. Wagner also produced 29 aces.
It was an injury plagued season for Winfield-Mt. Union, the Wolves still managed to win 17 games for their seventh consecutive above 0.500 season. Quin Smith, despite missing five games herself, led the team in kills with 132 for the year with a congruent efficiency of 0.132. Smith also block 36 attacks and nabbed 42 aces.
To round it out, Holy Trinity Catholic saw their four-year streak of making the state tournament come to an end against Dunkerton in the regional championship in a five-set thriller. The Crusaders were led by their main three attackers.
Co-SEISC-South Players of the Year Adalyn Kruse and Presley Myers combined for 725 kills this season as Myers collected efficiencies north of 0.300 each year of her career with the Crusaders. Lastly, Olivia Bendlage whacked 215 kills for the season and led the team with 48 aces.
For the third year in a row, Holy Trinity Catholic’s Melissa Freesmeier was named District Coach of the Year.