{"id":165951,"date":"2022-09-26T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=165951"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:41:02","slug":"lang-alexander-big-west-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/26\/lang-alexander-big-west-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lang, Alexander earn Big West weekly honors"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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A pair of University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa women\u2019s volleyball<\/a> players garnered weekly honors from the Big West Conference after helping UH<\/abbr> sweep UC<\/abbr> Davis and UC<\/abbr> Riverside to open conference play. Sophomore Kate Lang<\/strong> was named Big West Setter of the Week for the first time and outside hitter Caylen Alexander<\/strong> earned her second Freshman of the Week honor of the year.<\/p>\n

This is Lang\u2019s third career weekly conference honor, after twice being named Freshman of the Week in 2021. This is the first year The Big West has a Setter of the Week award.<\/p>\n

Lang orchestrated the UH<\/abbr> offense to a .356 hitting percentage this past weekend. She dished out a match-high 36 assists to go along with seven digs, a block, a kill and an ace against the Aggies to open the weekend. The sophomore followed a night later with a match-high 39 assists against UC<\/abbr> Riverside and had UH<\/abbr> firing on offense for a season-best .414 team hitting percentage, which is the highest hitting percentage since September 29, 2017 when UH<\/abbr> hit .494 vs. Cal State Fullerton. Lang averaged 12.5 assists per set in the two matches. Overall, she leads The Big West with 9.57 assists per set this season.<\/p>\n

Rookie Alexander helped power the offense to UH<\/abbr>\u2019s two wins. The outside hitter caught fire against UC<\/abbr> Riverside, pounding a match-high 15 kills with no errors in 27 attacks for a career-best .556 hitting percentage. Alexander pummeled seven kills in the third set alone\u2014including five in a span of seven points in the middle of the final frame.<\/p>\n

For the weekend, Alexander put down 23 kills, averaging 3.83 kills per set with a .375 hitting percentage in six frames of play and also recorded a career-best four blocks and added eight kills and two digs in the win over UC<\/abbr> Davis. She also recorded a service ace in each match and now has at least one ace in nine of UH<\/abbr>‘s 10 matches played. Her 0.48 service ace\/set average ranks her third in the Big West Conference.<\/p>\n

For more, visit hawaiiathletics.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate Lang was named Big West Setter of the Week and outside hitter Caylen Alexander earned Freshman of the Week honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,660,714,9,550],"class_list":["post-165951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-recognition","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t