Our Lady Academy captures volleyball state title. Ocean Springs, George County next to play
Make room for another banner on the bay.
Our Lady Academy captured its 18th state championship and sealed a four-peat with a sweep of Alcorn Central in the 3A title match at Clinton Thursday.
The Crescents cruised to early set wins with 25-12 and 25-14 advantages. The Lady Bears applied pressure in the third where they took their lone multi-point leads of the match at 14-12 and 21-18.
From there it was all OLA. A 7-2 rally finished by a kill from two-time 3A Miss Volleyball Myah Favre sealed head coach Mike Meyers’ 15th title at the school.
Favre would earn MVP honors for her performance. Our Lady Academy finished the season with 42 wins.
Two more South Mississippi squads are still to play at A.E. Wood Coliseum.
Ocean Springs and George County will compete for the 7A and 5A state championships, respectively, between Thursday and Friday at Mississippi College.
Ocean Springs has long been a perennial title contender but is still fighting to get over the hump and capture its first state title.
George County arrives after finally getting by a local rival in the South State championship series.
Thursday
- Our Lady Academy def. Alcorn Central, 3-0
- Ocean Springs vs Madison Central, 4 p.m.
Friday
- George County vs Lake Cormorant, 10 a.m.
Here’s how they got here
Our Lady Academy
The Crescents will arrive in the Jackson metro with their third consecutive 40-win season already sealed at 41-4. Our Lady’s only losses have come against three 7A programs and 5A Purvis. It’s won all four playoff games in straight sets after opening the month with a 3-0 win over Gulfport.
Our Lady is 22-1 since the beginning of September with an astounding set advantage of 56-4 in that span.
Legendary coach Mike Meyers is back in the back saddle at OLA after spending the last five years serving as the top assistant to his daughter, Emily. Meyers won 14 state titles across 20 seasons in his first stint. The Meyers family dynasty has only continued with three consecutive titles coming into Thursday’s battle against Alcorn Central.
It will be the final game of Miss 3A Volleyball Myah Favre’s distinguished five-year career. Favre and Taylor Henley are first and second in the state in hit percentage.
Ocean Springs
The Greyhounds are back in the title match after a heartbreaking defeat in the same venue against Lewisburg last year in a game Ocean Springs fell victim to a reverse sweep after winning the first two sets.
Christina Daigle’s squad group took down Brandon 3-1 in the South State to secure their shot at revenge. The Greyhounds enter with a 39-5 record and have caught fire at the right time with a 35-set winning streak stretching from Sept. 16 to the most recent match against the Bulldogs.
Ocean Springs has lost just two games to Mississippi schools and are traveling with a 22-game win streak against in-state teams.
The Greyhounds are led at the net by Lilly Rutland and Anna Hoffmayer. Both seniors have over 300 kills and while Hoffmayer’s .424 hitting percentage is top-five statewide.
George County
The Lady Rebels were felled at the doorstep by rival Hancock in each of the last two seasons but broke through this week with a straight-set win over the Hawks.
George County carries a 30-12 record with a quarter of its losses coming to OLA. Within its own region the Rebels were a perfect 10-0 with 30 sets won and zero lost.
They’ll be tasked with a challenge Hancock could not complete: stopping Lake Cormorant and two-time 6A Miss Volleyball Sofia Gonzalez.
This story was originally published October 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM.
