LA JOLLA, Calif. — For the third time this season Kyle McCauley from the ninth-ranked UC San Diego men's volleyball team has been named the Big West Conference Offensive Player of the Week.

A senior outside hitter, McCauley had a monster week to lead UC San Diego to a regular season sweep of No. 13 UC Irvine.

McCauley averaged 6.1 points and 5.2 kills while hitting .407 over the two wins. He also totaled six service aces and 14 digs.

In Friday's win at home, McCauley led all players with 26 kills, one short of his career-high. He hit .465 and had six digs and a pair of aces. The next night at UC Irvine, McCauley totaled 21 kills on .342 hitting while also contributing four aces, eight digs, and three blocks.

McCauley has posted a double-digit kill total in all 17 of his matches played in 2022. He has had 20 or more kills five times this season, including in his last three outings.

Nationally, McCauley currently ranks fourth in points/set (4.99), sixth in kills/set (4.2), seventh in attacks/set (8.84), and 11th in aces/set (.51).

Over his career, the Huntington Beach, Calif., native has won the conference award five times, including on Feb. 14 and March 7 of this season.

Also on Monday, McCauley was tabbed Off the Block's National Outside Attacker of the Week.

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McCAULEY POSTMATCH INTERVIEW FROM MARCH 25 AGAINST UC IRVINE   



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UP NEXT
UC San Diego (11-7, 3-2 Big West) continues conference play this week. The Tritons host CSUN on Thursday, March 31, before traveling to Northridge on Saturday, April 2, to take on the Matadors again. Both contests are scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.

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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 Conference 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.