Jackson Cryst Award Defensive Player of the Week Week Of 4/6/2026 Sport Men's Volleyball School Long Beach State Year Freshman Position Hometown Long Beach, Calif. High School Sage Hill HS Long Beach State’s Jackson Cryst anchored the team in a series sweep of UC San Diego to claim Big West Defensive Player of the Week honors. This is a second such weekly award for Cryst, also earning the award back on Jan. 12 to go along with last week’s Freshman honors. Cryst totaled 12 blocks, or 1.50 per set, to go along with 1.50 kills per set on .556 hitting with three aces in a pair of 3-1 victories against the Tritons. In the series opener, Cryst posted eight blocks and hit .714 with five kills on seven errorless swings in the road win. Saturday, the Long Beach, Calif., native followed with four blocks and seven kills with a pair of aces. Cryst is second in The Big West and 13th nationally in blocking with a 1.064 average and rates third in the league with 0.462 aces per set as LBSU players take the top three spots in the category.