Madi Maxwell Award Defensive Player of the Week Week Of 9/28/2026 Sport Women's Volleyball School Long Beach State Year Junior Position Setter/Opposite Hometown Newhall, Calif. High School Hart HS After helping Long Beach State extend their streak to 10 wins, Madi Maxwell’s all-around play has been rewarded with Big West Defensive Player of the Week honors for Sept. 28. An eighth career weekly award, this marks Maxwell’s first defensive nod. Maxwell led the Beach in both blocks and digs over road wins, finishing the weekend with 13 total blocks and 28 digs in seven sets. In Friday’s sweep at Black-Blue rival UC Irvine, the junior from Newhall, Calif., finished with 20 assists, 11 digs and four blocks along with four kills and and no errors on nine attempts to hit .444. Saturday at UC San Diego, the setter assisted on 26 plays with 17 digs and eight blocks in the four-set victory against the Tritons, narrowly missing an assists-digs-blocks triple-double.