LA JOLLA, Calif. - UC San Diego women's volleyball earned their seventh Big West Player of the Week honor for the 2023 season after going 2-0 over the weekend.
Jasmine Saran was named Big West Defensive Player of the Week for the second time this season, as announced Monday by the conference. The Tritons have collected three defensive nods this season.
Saran averaged 2.17 blocks per set in a 2-0 weekend for the Tritons, recording her 100th block of the season on Saturday. The sophomore becomes just the second Triton in the Division I era to reach 100 blocks in a season.
The middle blocker tallied 13 blocks in six sets, including a career-best 10 blocks (1 solo) in a 3-0 sweep of CSUN in which the Tritons set a Division I program record with 19 team blocks. She finished second on the team with 25 points over the weekend (4.17 per set), adding three aces, 15 kills (2.50 per set) and hitting .448. Saran has not committed more than three hitting errors in each of her last 12 matches, including just one in each of the last three matches.
PAST WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS
Lauren Brooker, Freshman (Oct. 23, 2023)
Jasmine Saran, Defensive (Oct. 23, 2023)
Ava McInnes, Offensive (Sept. 18, 2023)
Lauren Brooker, Freshman (Sept. 18, 2023)
Emily McDaniel, Defensive (Aug. 28, 2023)
Lauren Brooker, Freshman (Aug. 28, 2023)
Ava McInnes, Offensive (Oct. 17, 2022)
Emily McDaniel, Freshman (Oct. 18, 2021)
Naya Dong, Defensive (Sept. 13, 2021)
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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 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.
