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Deni Wilson

  • Award
    Defensive Player of the Week
  • Week Of
    10/25/2021
  • Sport
    Women's Volleyball
  • School
    UC Santa Barbara
  • Year
    Sophomore
  • Position
    Middle Blocker
  • Hometown
  • High School
  • UC Santa Barbara sophomore Deni Wilson was big on the net in a pair of Gaucho wins to earn her first Big West weekly honor.  

  • The middle blocker from Los Angeles averaged an impressive 2.33 blocks per set to go along with 2.00 kills and a .647 hitting percentage on the week.  

  • In a home sweep of Hawai’i, Wilson tied her career-high with eight total blocks, two of which were solos, to go along with an errorless .571 clip.  

  • To open the week’s action on Tuesday, she sent down six total blocks on CSUN which she paired with an 8-1-10 line for a .700 hitting percentage. 

  • After the strong stats line, Wilson leapt to second in The Big West in hitting percentage (.405), and stands in sixth in the conference in blocks per set (.99).