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Offensive Player of the Week
Louis Sakanoko, Hawa'i | Junior • Outside Hitter • Paris, France |
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Leading Hawai’i to the season sweep over defending champion Long Beach State, Louis Sakanoko has been named The Big West Offensive Player of the Week. The award is the second of the season, also earning honors on March 2, and a third career nod.
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The junior from Paris, France, averaged 3.83 kills per set while hitting .571 for the series with only three attack errors in 35 attempts in the pair of road wins. Sakanoko also averaged 1.00 digs per set while adding four blocks and a pair of aces.
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Sakanoko played the first three sets Friday’s five-set series opener before succumbing to cramps. He departed the match with eight kills, four digs, an assist, block and ace.
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The outside hitter was nearly unstoppable in the rematch with a team-high 15 kills, hitting at a .619 clip with one ace, two digs, and three blocks in a straight-set win.
Also nominated: Wojciech Gajek (Long Beach State); Jalen Phillips (CSUN)
Defensive Player of the Week
Quintin Greenidge, Hawai'i | Junior • Libero • Cambridge, Ontario, Canada |
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The junior libero allowed only one ace in a team-high 45 combined reception attempts in the series. As a team, UH allowed only nine aces in the two matches (1.13 per set), well below LBSU’s nation-leading 2.80 aces per set average entering the weekend.
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In the series opener, the junior from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, did not commit a reception error in a team-high 34 attempts while popping up five digs along with five assists in the five-set victory. Greenidge closed with seven digs in the sweep to share team-high honors with 12 total digs, or 1.50 per set.
Also nominated: Braedon Marquardt (Long Beach State)
Setter of the Week
Tread Rosenthal, Hawai'i | Junior • Setter • Austin, Texas |
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Rosenthal averaged 8.50 assists per set along with 1.25 kills per set, 1.13 digs per set and 0.88 blocks per set on the weekend, while surpassing the 3,000 career kill mark.
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In the series opener, Rosenthal posted 35 assists, a season-high seven kills, an ace, three digs and five blocks in the five-set wiin.
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In Saturday’s rematch, the setter tallied 33 assists, three kills, six digs and two blocks in a sweeping effort.
Also nominated: Owen Douphner (CSUN); Jake Pazanti (Long Beach State)
Freshman of the Week
Wojciech Gajek, Long Beach State | Freshman • Opposite Hitter • Katowice, Poland |
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Gajek carried the offensive load with 38 kills, or 4.75 per et, on .375 hitting across eight sets of action, accounting for a significant share of LBSU’s 98 total kills in a pair of matches against Hawai’i.
Also nominated: none