Volleyball recruiting benchmarks

Kills Per Set by position: what each level actually looks like

Name: Athlete Quotient volleyball kills per set benchmarks by position
Creator: Athlete Quotient

Athlete Quotient's D1 kills per set benchmark in women's volleyball runs from 2.217 for an outside hitter to 0.169 for a setter, because the position defines the job. The table below runs the full ladder - high school varsity to the elite D1 rung - for every position, with the men's sport-wide ladder beside it.

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Kills Per Set benchmarks by position

Athlete Quotient women's volleyball kills per set benchmarks (Kills Per Set).
Position	D1 elite	D1	D1 floor	D2	D3	HS varsity
Outside Hitter	3.543	2.217	-	2.059	1.871	1.682
Opposite Hitter	3.111	1.877	-	1.812	1.536	1.260
Middle Blocker	2.230	1.450	-	-	1.365	1.281
Setter	0.819	0.169	-	-	-	0.101

Men's ladder

The men's kills per set ladder is published sport-wide rather than by position.

Athlete Quotient men's volleyball kills per set benchmarks, sport-wide.
Position	D1 elite	D1	D1 floor	D2	D3	HS varsity
All positions	3.207	1.426	-	-	1.328	1.231

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Common questions

What is a good kills per set for a volleyball outside hitter?

Athlete Quotient's D1 benchmark for a volleyball outside hitter is 2.217. The D2 rung is 2.059, D3 is 1.871 and high school varsity is 1.682. The elite D1 rung is 3.543.

What is a good kills per set for a volleyball setter?

Athlete Quotient's D1 benchmark for a volleyball setter is 0.169. High school varsity is 0.101. The elite D1 rung is 0.819.

How to read these

Each column is a rung on the Athlete Quotient benchmark ladder - the bar the engine scores every athlete against - not a cutoff and not an entry price. Being under a rung does not close a door. It tells you the size of the gap, which is the only number you can actually train against.

These are Athlete Quotient's own benchmarks. Where a published college figure exists we use it; where none exists, the rung is ours. We would rather say that than claim a source we do not have.

These tables are the same ones the scoring engine uses, exported from it rather than retyped, so a page can never quietly disagree with a score. More: how AQ builds benchmarks.