Brett Sheward

  • Award
    Offensive Player of the Week
  • Week Of
    3/4/2024
  • Sport
    Men's Volleyball
  • School
    UC Irvine
  • Year
    Graduate Student
  • Position
    Setter
  • Hometown
    Newport Beach, Calif.
  • High School
    Orange Lutheran

  • UC Irvine setter Brett Sheward guided the No. 5 UC Irvine offense to a pair of sweeps against No. 18 UC San Diego to open Big West play and claim Offensive Player of the Week. The award is a second career honor but first of the offensive variety. Sheward was named Defensive Player of the Week back on Jan. 16, 2023, playing as a member of the Hawai’i team. 

  • Sheward finished with 34 assists, five digs and a kill in both sides of the home-and-home series against the Tritons. The setter from Newport Beach, Calif., averaged 11.33 set assists, 1.67 digs and 0.50 aces per set on the week.  

  • In the first meeting against the Tritons, the Anteaters combined to hit .468, the second-best mark of the season. The Anteaters are now on a six-match winning streak, hitting over .460 twice in that span.  

  • Sheward is currently pacing The Big West with a 10.77 assists per set average, good for second nationally.