The Peninsula Athletic League's Bay Division volleyball title is genuinely contested this fall, with Aragon looking to do something the Dons haven't accomplished in over a decade: win the division outright.

Aragon has been the area's postseason powerhouse, claiming four Central Coast Section Division II championships since 2019, including three of the last four. But a finals loss in 2024 snapped what would have been a four-peat, and the Dons haven't won the Bay Division outright since 2014.

That's the target for 2026.

Junior Poppy McKenzie, one of the PAL's best all-around players according to the San Mateo Daily Journal, enters her third varsity season. McKenzie will anchor a Dons squad that has dominated CCS brackets but wants to prove it can run the table in league play.

Sequoia brings state-final experience

Aragon won't cruise unchallenged. Sequoia setter Jayda McGlennon returns after piling up more than 1,100 assists last season, when the Ravens reached the CIF state Division III championship match. That run ended with a loss to Academy of Our Lady of Peace in November 2025, according to the Mercury News, but McGlennon's return gives Sequoia a proven floor general heading into league play.

County volleyball runs deep

The competition extends well beyond two teams. San Mateo County squads, spanning the PAL, West Bay Athletic League and Private School Athletic League, have combined for 18 section titles since 2016. The Bay Division has been one of the CCS’s strongest volleyball divisions, and the 2026 race appears wide open.

For Aragon, the math is simple: four CCS titles in seven years, zero outright Bay Division crowns in that same stretch. McKenzie and the Dons open the fall season aiming to change that equation.