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IRVINE, Calif.—A pair of University of Hawai’i women’s volleyball players garnered weekly honors from The Big West after helping Hawai’i sweep UC Davis and UC Riverside to open conference play. Sophomore Kate Lang was named Big West Setter of the Week for the first time and outside hitter Caylen Alexander earned her second Freshman of the Week honor of the year.
This is Lang’s 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.
Lang orchestrated the Hawai’i 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 from Keller, Texas followed a night later with a match-high 39 assists against UC Riverside and had Hawai’i firing on offense for a season-best .414 team hitting percentage, which is the highest hitting percentage since Sept. 29, 2017 when UH 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.
Rookie Caylen Alexander helped power the offense to UH’s two wins. The outside hitter caught fire against UC 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–including five in a span of seven points in the middle of the final frame.
For the weekend, the native of Alpharetta, Ga., 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 Davis. Alexander also recorded a service ace in each match and now has at least one ace in nine of Hawai’i’s 10 matches played. Her 0.48 service ace/set average ranks her third in The Big West.
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