[Joe Friday]

Do all the schools have complete stats on individual players? I never see them on max prep except for a couple of schools in the Region. If stats are used as a guide, then some deserving players will be excluded because of the omission.

I cannot really answer whether coaches have stats or not. They should is all I can say.

As for Max Preps, every school in the state is on Max Preps and it is a great way for the girls in this area to get recognition. It is AVCA/KVCA endorsed and the stats are used to select Players of the Year from each area. Coaches have to make an effort to enter their stats on Max Preps; of course that means they have to make an effort and keeo stats within the guidelines of volleyball stats and understand how to keep them. Also, the selection committees are looking at the difficulty of a team's schedule.

As for the 15th Region All-Stars, it did not matter whether or not stats were sent. Those that had stats sent them in; however if a coach nominated a player, her name was put on the ballot for the other coaches to vote on. There again, coaches had to nominate their players. A lot of coaches lose interest when their post season is over and don't think any more about it and even though they received the request to nominate may not have bothered. I am not sure which schools nominated players and which did not but I believe some All-District Tourney Players in the 15th Region and even some 15th All-Region Tourney Players were left out because they were not nominated.