Three University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa women’s volleyball players earned Big West weekly honors in the final week of the regular season. Amber Igiede picked up her third Offensive Player of the Week award, Kate Lang was tabbed Setter of the Week for the third time and Caylen Alexander set a new UH record with her sixth Freshman of the Week award.
Igiede was all over the court in UH‘s two road wins last weekend. Across the two matches, Igiede averaged 5.44 points, 4.11 kills, 1.22 blocks, 1.00 digs and 0.56 aces per set while hitting .500 (37-5-64). Igiede has started all 28 games for UH this season and reached double-digit kills in 26 of them. In UH’s title-clinching win at UC Santa Barbara on November 25, she put down a match-high 18 kills (tied with Riley Wagoner) while hitting at a .417 clip (18-3-36) and had a match-high five blocks. She added three digs, two assists and an ace to fill her stat line. In the November 26 match against California State University Northridge (CSUN), Igiede put down a match-high 19 kills, a .607 hitting percentage, a career-high four service aces and six blocks. It marked the third time this season that she hit above the .600 mark. This is Igiede’s sixth overall weekly conference honor.
Lang earned her third Setter of the Week award after helping lead UH to a .316 combined team hitting percentage this past weekend. She had 89 assists, averaging 9.89 assists/set at a .442 set percentage. She tied her career-high, dishing out 55 assists and set a new career-high with six kills in UH‘s win at UC Santa Barbara. She also recorded her eighth double-double of the season with 17 digs.
Alexander put down 16 total kills against UC Santa Barbara—five in the fourth set and another two in the fifth. She also had five digs with two aces to increase her team leading mark at 33. Against CSUN, she pounded 12 kills while hitting .333 (12-3-27), along with a career-high six blocks. For the weekend, she totaled 28 kills, 3.11 kills/set and a .306 hitting percentage. Alexander’s league-high sixth Big West Freshman of the Week award breaks former UH standout Hanna Hellvig‘s record of five in 2019.
This past weekend, UH captured its third-consecutive Big West title to earn the league’s automatic bid to its 29th-straight and 40th overall appearance in the NCAA championship tournament. The Rainbow Wahine will open the NCAA first round against Louisiana State University on December 2.
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