Mason Briggs Award Defensive Player of the Week Week Of 4/10/2023 Sport Men's Volleyball School Long Beach State Year Junior Position Hometown Valencia, Calif. High School Bishop Alemany HS All-American libero Mason Briggs anchored No. 4 Long Beach State’s defense in two wins over No. 15 CSUN over the weekend to nab a fourth career Big West Defensive Player of the Week award. Briggs averaged 3.13 digs per set as the Beach have now won six straight matches for the third time in 2023, and sit in a first-place tie with Hawai’i heading into the final week of the regular season. The fourth-year junior first collected a match- and season-high 18 digs, two shy of a new career best, in Friday’s reverse sweep in Northridge, to go along with two set assists. Briggs made just one error on 34 service receptions. Saturday night’s sweep in Long Beach saw Briggs get to a team-high seven more digs with one set assist, while again committing a solitary error over 19 serve receives. Briggs’ prior Big West Defensive Player of the Week honors came earlier this season on Jan. 23, and back-to-back last year on March 28 and April 4. The Beach have laid claim to a league-high seven of the 14 defensive awards in 2023, through three different standouts.