Senior forward Carolina Ruiz led the Pacific Tigers to a 34-point win over Cal Poly on Thursday, Jan. 26 with 26 points and nine rebounds, which earned her Big West Women's Basketball Player of the Week honors for the week ending Jan. 29. The win over no. 2 in the conference, Cal Poly, broke a five-game losing skid for the Tigers.
In a Saturday matinee against UC Santa Barbara, the Paradise, Calif., native, posted her third conference double-double with 17 points and a season-high 15 boards. For the week she fired a field goal percentage of 70.4, and shot 2-3 from behind-the-arc. This is the first player of the week award for Pacific and the second consecutive week a senior has claimed the prize.