Led by tournament MVP Thomas Wollersheium, South Carolina’s Spring Valley won the 2008 Palmetto Cup and is the top-ranked team in the NSCAA/adidas high school boys national spring rankings. Spring Valley beat Bishop England, 4-1, in the final of the tournament that was hosted by Brookland-Cayce High School and featured teams from Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia, in addition to South Carolina. Defending Georgia Class 5A champion Parkview is No. 1 in the girls rankings.
BOYS TOP 20
1 Spring Valley (Columbia, S.C.) 10-0-0
2 Chattahoochee (Alpharetta, Ga.) 12-0-1
3 Catholic (Little Rock, Ark.) 8-0-0
4 Bellarmine Prep (Tacoma, Wash.) 5-0-0
5 Grissom (Huntsville, Ala.) 17-1-0
6 Farragut (Knoxville, Tenn.) 6-0-1
7 Ankeny (Iowa) 0-0-0
8 North Cobb (Kennesaw, Ga.) 12-1-0
9 Rogers (Little Rock, Ark.) 10-1-1
10 South Kitsap (Port Orchard, Wash.) 7-0-1
11 Millard North (Omaha, Neb.) 3-0-0
12 Harrison (Kennesaw, Ga.) 12-1-0
12 Osbourn Park (Manassas, Va.) 3-0-0
14 Broken Arrow (Okla.) 4-0-0
15 Jackson (Mill Creek, Wash.) 5-0-0
15 Northwestern (Rock Hill, S.C.) 10-0-0
17 Valley (West Des Moines, Iowa) 6-0-0
18 Shorewood (Shoreline, Wash.) 6-0-0
19 Edmond Memorial (Okla.) 4-0-0
20 Blacksburg (Va.) 1-0-0
20 Jordan (Sandy, Utah) 4-0-0
GIRLS TOP 20
1 Parkview (Lilburn, Ga.) 12-0-0
2 Incarnate Word Acad. (St. Louis, Mo.) 3-0-0
3 Roberson (Asheville, N.C.) 9-0-0
4 Central Dauphin (Harrisburg, Pa.) 2-0-0
5 Novi (Mich.) 0-0-0
6 Sonora (Calif.) 15-1-1
7 First Colonial (Virginia Beach, Va.) 3-0-0
8 Brookwood (Snellville, Ga.) 11-1-0
9 St. Mary’s (Stockton, Calif.) 15-1-2
10 Aquinas (Overland Park, Kan.) 3-0-0
11 Waubonsie Valley (Aurora, Ill.) 3-0-1
12 Central Bucks West (Doylestown, Pa.) 1-0-1
13 St. Pius X (Atlanta, Ga.) 13-0-0
14 Leesville Road (Raleigh, N.C.) 10-1-0
15 Unity Christian (Hudsonville, Mich.) 1-0-0
16 Grandview (Aurora, Colo.) 3-0-0
17 Padua Acad. (Wilmington, Del.) 0-0-0
18 St. Teresa’s Acad. (Kansas City, Mo.) 3-1-0
19 Wando (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) 10-0-0
20 Normal Community West (Normal, Ill.) 6-0-0