Stark County Rebels Volleyball: 2026 Schedule, Results and Roster
Stark County Rebels · Toulon, Illinois
Latest result: beat Henry-Senachwine 2-1 on September 1. Now 1-1. Next: at Alleman, Monday September 7, 6:00.
2026: 1-1 · Coach: not publicly listed · 2025: 9-18, ninth in the Lincoln Trail
Six seniors on a ten-player roster, an unusually light September, and a head coach whose name we cannot find anywhere.
2026 so far
- Aug 27 — lost at Peoria Christian, 0-2
Only one match played — fewer than any other area team.
Sept 1 — beat Henry-Senachwine 2-1 (21-25, 25-16, 26-24), away. A September 4 fixture against Pekin appears on Pekin\u2019s schedule but not on Stark County\u2019s, and neither has posted a result. We are not counting it.
Six seniors out of ten
The roster is small and old: Sophie Finnegan, Kenna Sparks, Tessah Potter, Charlotte Hegwood, Michelle Atchley and Adelynn Gibson are all seniors, on a squad of ten.
That is the highest proportion of seniors of any programme in the conference. It means this season is the one, and it means next season starts from nearly nothing.
No positions are listed publicly, and no player statistics have been entered for 2026.
A September with a hole in it
September schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 1 | at Henry-Senachwine | Away |
| Sept 7 | at Alleman | Away |
| Sept 10 | Mercer County | Home |
| Sept 12 | Wethersfield † (tournament) | — |
| Sept 15 | Midland | Home |
| Sept 16 | at United † | Away |
| Sept 30 | Abingdon-Avon † | Home |
† Lincoln Trail Conference.
Seven matches, and a two-week gap between September 16 and September 30 — the longest break any area team has in the middle of a season. Whether that is a scheduling quirk or a gap in published data, we have not been able to establish.
2025
9-18 overall, 5-6 in conference, ninth of twelve.
The postseason ended at the Bureau Valley regional on October 28, losing 25-13, 25-20 to the hosts — a match MaxPreps has dropped from both teams’ schedules entirely. It is documented by the Peoria Journal Star.
What Stark County is
The school in Toulon, the county seat, population 1,193, is what remains of six separate high schools: Toulon, founded in 1847, Toulon Township, LaFayette, Toulon-LaFayette, Wyoming and Bradford, which closed in 2001.
Enrollment is 221. The Lincoln Trail Conference has had a Toulon school in it since it was founded in 1976 — then as Toulon-LaFayette, since 1992 as Stark County.
The new gym
Volleyball is played in a building that opened on January 10, 2025 — a $4.5 million, 1,250-seat gymnasium, following a $16.5 million renovation of the wider school completed in autumn 2022.
A county of fewer than 5,500 people built a 1,250-seat gym. That is roughly one seat for every four residents.
The football team’s record
Worth mentioning because it sets expectations locally: Stark County football has reached the Class 1A state final three times — 1997, 2008 and 2015 — and lost all three. It has 27 playoff qualifications. More on the Rebels →
Two gaps we would like filled
We cannot find the head coach’s name anywhere — no public listing carries it. And the September schedule may be incomplete.
If you can help with either, get in touch. We would rather publish a correction than leave a school half-covered.
The postseason
State semifinals Friday, November 13, finals Saturday, November 14, at CEFCU Arena in Normal.
October 2026 schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, Oct 5 | at Bureau Valley | Away | 7:00 p.m. |
| Wed, Oct 7 | Knoxville | Home | 5:00 p.m. |
| Mon, Oct 12 | Galva | Home | 6:30 p.m. |
| Wed, Oct 14 | at Ridgewood | Away | 7:00 p.m. |
| Mon, Oct 19 | Wethersfield | Home | 7:00 p.m. |
Five October dates is sparse for a Lincoln Trail school. We believe this listing is incomplete rather than a genuine five-match month, and we are checking with the school.
The most incomplete record in the area
We want to be careful with Stark County, because the number the IHSA publishes for this program should not be repeated without a warning attached to it.
The printed all-time summary reads 79-89-13, a .472 percentage across six recorded seasons. That is not an all-time record and should not be presented as one. The entry begins at 2007-08 and ends at 2016-17. The 2008-09 and 2009-10 rows are blank, and 2010-11 and 2011-12 are missing entirely. Stark County High School has existed since the 1990s. What the IHSA has on file is a partial decade with holes in it.
These summaries are built from what schools submit, and Stark County’s submissions stopped in 2017. Nothing has been filed for the last nine seasons. So the real figure — the Rebels’ actual all-time volleyball record — is not published anywhere we have been able to find, and we are not going to invent one.
What the record does confirm is a regional championship in 2013-14, won by a Class 2A team that finished 20-11-3 under Amy Wise. That is the one title in the file. No sectional, no super-sectional, no state finals appearance.
For 2026, the Rebels’ October is built around three home dates in Toulon — Knoxville on the 7th at an early 5:00 p.m. start, Galva on the 12th, and Wethersfield on the 19th. The Wethersfield match is the measuring stick: the Hornets are the strongest volleyball program in this coverage area by a wide margin, and how Stark County handles that night in its own gym will say more than the record does.
Who is coaching in 2026
We do not know, and we are not going to guess. MaxPreps shows no coaching staff at all for Stark County volleyball — the staff listing is empty, with the roster last updated August 9, 2026. The school’s athletics site does not publish a coach directory we could reach. The IHSA’s last coach of record is Amy Wise in 2016-17, nine years stale and not usable.
Every other program in this coverage area has a coach we can name. Stark County is the one we cannot. If you know who is leading the Rebels this fall, tell us and the name goes up the same day.
What we have not been able to confirm
- The head coach. No source we have found lists one.
- Stark County’s actual all-time record, which the IHSA file does not contain.
- Any season result from 2017-18 through 2025-26.
- Whether the five-date October schedule is complete.
- The 2026 roster.
This page has more gaps than any other on the site. That is not for lack of looking — it is what the public record actually contains. Anyone in Toulon who can fill them in will get credited for it.
Send us results
Volleyball gets a fraction of the coverage football does around here, and almost none of these matches are written up anywhere. If you have a result, a stat line or a photo, send it in — we post them as they come and correct errors the same day.
Records from MaxPreps schedule pages, cross-checked where the site’s own pages disagree. Postseason results via the Peoria Journal Star. All area volleyball standings →
