Kellen Larson Award Defensive Player of the Week Week Of 4/7/2025 Sport Men's Volleyball School Long Beach State Year Freshman Position Libero Hometown Irvine, Calif. High School Woodbridge HS Freshman Kellen Larson anchored the Long Beach State defense to a pair of wins against UC Santa Barbara to nab Big West Defensive Player of the Week. Larson and the Beach limited USCB to a collective .124 hitting percentage with Larson averaging 2.43 digs per set. In Thursday’s four-set victory, the libero from Irvine, Calif., logged a career-high eight digs with a pair of assists on the road. Friday, Larson came back with a new career mark of nine digs with a kill in the three-set sweep at Walter Pyramid.