Where 2025-26 men's volleyball players came from
No state leads college men's volleyball: California, Illinois and New York are effectively level at the top, and we won't rank them.
Out of 2,504 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
146 schools' 2025-26 men's volleyball rosters, 2,504 players. We don't say what share of all programs that is — no authoritative count of programs exists.
Not a ranking. The top states here are within 0.4 of a percentage point of each other — California, Illinois, New York are effectively level. 9 players separate the top two, and a lead that small would need about 47 players before we'd call anyone first. So read the bars as sizes, not as places 1, 2, 3.
- California282 players · 11.3%
- Illinois273 players · 10.9%
- New York258 players · 10.3%
- Pennsylvania243 players · 9.7%
- New Jersey133 players · 5.3%
- Outside the U.S.131 players · 5.2%
- Wisconsin130 players · 5.2%
- Virginia106 players · 4.2%
- Florida93 players · 3.7%
- Ohio71 players · 2.8%
- Texas67 players · 2.7%
- Missouri59 players · 2.4%
- Indiana48 players · 1.9%
- Maryland44 players · 1.8%
- Arizona44 players · 1.8%
- Home state unknown94 players · 3.8%
These players' roster pages didn't list a readable home town. We count them rather than hide them.
31 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 2,504 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
131 of the 2,504 players we read listed a home town outside the U.S. Shares below are out of those 131.
- Canada22 players · 16.8%
- Brazil16 players · 12.2%
- Israel8 players · 6.1%
- Australia8 players · 6.1%
- Poland7 players · 5.3%
- Italy7 players · 5.3%
- Germany7 players · 5.3%
- United Kingdom6 players · 4.6%
- France6 players · 4.6%
- Spain6 players · 4.6%
17 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 131 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
How to read this
Each bar is the number of players on a 2025-26 college men's volleyball roster whose listed home town is in that state. It is not a count of recruits, offers, or scholarships, and it says nothing about your own odds — it's simply where the players currently on rosters grew up.
We don't call a state first here. California, Illinois, New York are within a percentage point of each other, and 9 players separate the top two — a "#1" that a handful of players would overturn isn't a fact, so we don't print one.
The unknown bar matters. 94 men's volleyball players (3.8%) are on rosters that didn't list a readable home town. We show them because a chart with no leftovers is usually a chart someone tidied up.
Source: official athletics roster pages, 2025-26 season, read August 4, 2026.