{"id":169671,"date":"2022-11-29T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=169671"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T21:19:35","slug":"igiede-lang-alexander-big-west-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/29\/igiede-lang-alexander-big-west-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Igiede, Lang, Alexander earn Big West weekly honors"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Three University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa women’s volleyball<\/a> players earned Big West weekly honors in the final week of the regular season. Amber Igiede<\/strong> picked up her third Offensive Player of the Week award, Kate Lang<\/strong> was tabbed Setter of the Week for the third time and Caylen Alexander<\/strong> set a new UH<\/abbr> record with her sixth Freshman of the Week award.<\/p>\n

Igiede was all over the court in UH<\/abbr>‘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<\/abbr> this season and reached double-digit kills in 26 of them. In UH<\/abbr>\u2019s title-clinching win at UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara on November 25, she put down a match-high 18 kills (tied with Riley Wagoner<\/strong>) 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<\/abbr>), 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.<\/p>\n

Lang earned her third Setter of the Week award after helping lead UH<\/abbr> 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<\/abbr>‘s win at UC<\/abbr> Santa Barbara. She also recorded her eighth double-double of the season with 17 digs.<\/p>\n

Alexander put down 16 total kills against UC<\/abbr> 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<\/abbr>, 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<\/abbr> standout Hanna Hellvig<\/strong>‘s record of five in 2019.<\/p>\n

This past weekend, UH<\/abbr> 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<\/abbr> championship tournament. The Rainbow Wahine will open the NCAA<\/abbr> first round against Louisiana State University on December 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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