LA JOLLA, Calif.—After leading UC San Diego women's basketball to a 2-0 week, Sabrina Ma was named Big West Player of the Week, as announced Monday by the conference.
 
It is the first conference weekly award for Ma—a junior transfer for the Tritons—and the seventh weekly nod for UC San Diego since joining the Big West in 2020-21. Sumayah Sugapong received the honor twice earlier this season.
 
Ma recorded back-to-back 17-point performances, leading the Tritons offensively in both games for the week. The San Francisco native was 9-of-15 (60 percent) from three-point range and shot 57.9 percent from the floor to lead the Tritons with 34 total points.
 
On Thursday, Ma scored a team-high 17 points—including four made three-pointers—to help UC San Diego hand Long Beach State its first conference loss, 79-68. She began Saturday's contest against UC Riverside 5-for-5 from beyond the arc and led the team once again with 17 points in a 59-58 victory. The Tritons have now won five consecutive games in LionTree Arena.
 
Ma also finished the week with seven rebounds, two assists, two blocks and two steals. She currently ranks first in the Big West and 24th nationally in total steals (49), second in the conference in three-pointers (44) and third in three-point percentage (40 percent).
 
UC San Diego will return to the road for a pair of Big West contests this week, taking on UC Santa Barbara on Thursday at 7 p.m. and facing CSUN on Saturday at 2 p.m. The games will be broadcast on ESPN+ and live statistics will be available via UCSDTritons.com.
 
PAST WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS
Sabrina Ma (Jan. 20, 2025)
Sumayah Sugapong (Dec. 16, 2024)
Sumayah Sugapong (Dec. 2, 2024)
Sumayah Sugapong (Dec. 25, 2023)
Izzy Forsyth (Feb. 20, 2023)
Emily Cangelosi (Nov. 21, 2022)
Sydney Brown (Feb. 22, 2021)
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.