The Spring InterHigh, the national volleyball high schools championships or also known as Koushien of volleyball, is a tournament that take places during winter and is held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. A few years ago the tournament was held at Yoyogi Gymnasium before moved to the current venue. It is a tournament for high school volleyball teams. The Spring Interhigh is considered one of the most prolific events of the high schools level volleyball tournaments along with Summer Interhigh tournaments.
Course
The Spring Interhigh itself is in classic tournament structure, a single-elimination tournament, also known as sudden death. It begins with first round, second round, third round, quarter-final, semi-finals and eventually the finals.
Before the tournament begins, there is a qualifying round that usually starts in November and qualifying rounds are held in every prefecture in Japan. Only 1 team can represent the prefecture and there are some prefectures that can be represented by 2 teams. For the Tokyo prefecture, because the tournament itself is held in Tokyo, they are allowed 3 team representatives.
Teams Competing
- Karasuno High (Miyagi Prefecture representative)
- Nekoma High (Tokyo 3 Prefecture representative)
- Fukurōdani Academy (Tokyo 2 Prefecture representative)
- Inarizaki High (Hyōgo Prefecture representative)
- Itachiyama Academy (Tokyo 1 Prefecture representative)
- Kamomedai High (Nagano Prefecture representative)
- Tsubakihara Academy (Kanagawa 2 Prefecture representative)
- Sarukawa Tech High (Ishikawa Prefecture representative)
- Mujinazaka High (Oita 1 Prefecture representative)
- Kiyokawa High (Kochi Prefecture representative)
- Tsukuida High (Ibaraki Prefecture representative)
- Eiwa High (Oita 2 Prefecture representative)
- Morikawa High
- Mimiya Tech High (Mie Prefecture representative)
- Higashihara High (Saitama Prefecture representative)
- Terunoshiro High (Okinawa Prefecture representative)
- Kyōzen Tech High
- Shinta Tech High
- Matsuyama Nishi Shōgyō High
- Takagiyama High (Ehime Prefecture representative)
- Chiseki Shōgyō High
- Shiritsu Sakae High
- Tamamine High
Matches
1st Round
- Karasuno High vs Tsubakihara Academy (2:0 / 25-23, 25-23)
- Fukurōdani Academy vs Eiwa High (2:0 / 25-22, 25-21)
- Nekoma High vs Kiyokawa High (2:0 / 29-27, 25-21)
- Kamomedai High vs Tsukuida High (2:0 / 25-20, 25-18)
- Sarukawa Tech High vs Terunoshiro High (2:1 / 20-25, 25-21, 25-19)
- Higashihara High vs Mimiya Tech High (?? / ??)
2nd Round
- Karasuno High vs Inarizaki High (2:1 / 27-25, 16-25, 32-30)
- Nekoma High vs Sarukawa Tech High (2:0 / 25-23, 32-30)
- Fukurōdani Academy vs Morikawa High (2:0 / 28-26, 25-21)
- Itachiyama Academy vs Unknown School (?? / ??)
- Mujinazaka High vs Kyōzen Tech High (?? / ??)
- Kamomedai High vs Shinta Tech High (?? / ??)
3rd Round
- Karasuno High vs Nekoma High (2:1 / 25-27, 26-24, 25-21)
- Fukurōdani Academy vs Matsuyama Nishi Shōgyō High (2:0 / 25-22, 25-18)
- Kamomedai High vs Takagiyama High (2-0 / ??, 25-22)
- Mujinazaka High vs Chiseki Shōgyō High (?? / ??)
- Itachiyama Academy vs Tamamime High (2-0 / 25-18, 25-17)
Quarter-Finals
- Karasuno High vs Kamomedai High
- Shiritsu Sakae High vs ??
- Mujinazaka High vs Fukurōdani Academy
- Itachiyama Academy vs ??