The high school volleyball regionals were played Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7, and seven Class 1A teams from southeast Colorado won theirs. They will play at the state tournament Thursday through Saturday, November 12-14, at the Denver Coliseum. Here is how the regular season ended and how the regionals went, from the Colorado High School Activities Association's scoreboards, rankings and brackets.

Class 1A: seven of the 12 state spots

Class 1A sends its 12 regional winners to state, and seven of them this year come from the Press's coverage area. Each 1A regional was a single match. Simla, 22-1 and ranked first, swept Peetz on Saturday. McClave, 18-5 and ranked second, swept Holly on Saturday. Swink, 21-2 and ranked third, swept Rocky Mountain Lutheran on Friday. Cheraw, 18-4 and ranked fourth, swept Primero on Friday. Granada, 19-4 and ranked fifth, swept Briggsdale on Saturday. Hi-Plains, 17-6 and ranked seventh, swept Elbert on Friday. Flagler, 16-7 and ranked 12th, beat Otis 3-1 on Friday.

These teams spent the fall beating each other. Swink's two regular-season losses were 3-1 to Granada on October 8 and 3-0 to Simla on October 31. Cheraw's four losses were 2-1 to Evangel Christian Academy in pool play on September 12, 3-2 to Swink on September 22, 2-0 to Hi-Plains in pool play on October 10 and 3-0 to Simla on October 24. Cheraw beat McClave 3-2 on October 15. McClave lost twice to Simla, once each to Swink and Cheraw, and 2-1 to Wiggins in an August tournament, and beat Granada 3-1 and Hi-Plains 3-1. Granada beat Hi-Plains 3-2 on September 22 and Swink 3-1. Simla did not lose to an area team.

Four area 1A teams lost their regional. Eads, 11-8 and ranked 14th, lost 3-2 at Haxtun on Saturday. Stratton, 14-9, lost 3-1 at Caliche on Friday. Wiley, 15-8, lost 3-0 at Sargent on Friday. South Baca, the Campo, Vilas and Pritchett co-op, was 18-5 and lost 3-1 at Plateau Valley on Saturday. Holly, 13-10, lost at McClave.

Class 2A, 3A and 4A

In Class 2A, regionals were three-team pools, and no area team advanced. Las Animas, 13-7, lost 3-0 to Evangel Christian Academy and 3-1 to SkyView Academy on Saturday. Burlington, 13-10, lost 3-0 to Holyoke and 3-0 to Flatirons Academy on Friday. Limon, 11-12, lost 3-0 to Merino and 3-0 to Heritage Christian on Saturday.

In 3A, Lamar, 13-10 and seeded 24th, beat KIPP Denver Collegiate 3-0 on Friday, then lost 3-0 to top-seeded University and finished 14-11. La Junta, 12-11, did not make the 36-team regional field. In 4A, Pueblo County, 16-7, lost 3-2 to Battle Mountain and 3-0 to Palmer on Saturday and finished 16-9.

The state tournament runs Thursday through Saturday, November 12-14, at the Denver Coliseum. CHSAA said the state brackets would be posted Sunday, November 8.

The record

Regular-season records and ranks are CHSAA's, from its rankings pages at the end of the regular season. Match scores come from the association's daily scoreboards, and regional seeds and results from its 1A, 2A, 3A and 4A regional brackets. The state brackets will appear on CHSAA's 2026 volleyball brackets page. The Press's weekly scores through the season are on the school sports scores page.