LA JOLLA, Calif. — UC San Diego's
Landon Akerstrom was named the Big West Men's Water Polo Player of the Week Wednesday.
Akerstrom continued his scoring ways this past week for No. 13 UC San Diego, racking up seven points on six goals and an assist over two road games.
In the team's Big West opener, a 12-11 loss at No. 5 UC Irvine, Akerstrom found the net four times, a game-high, while adding a steal and a drawn exclusion.
The next night at 16
th-ranked Loyola Marymount, he registered two goals, an assist, two drawn exclusions, and a steal as the Tritons defeated the Lions 10-3 in Los Angeles.
Akerstrom is now the Big West leader in goals scored with 45. He has notched at least one goal in his last 11 games and had multiple goals in eight of those.
It is the first Big West weekly honor for Akerstrom, a sophomore attacker from Costa Mesa, Calif. In 2023, he was named All-Big West Honorable Mention and was selected to the Big West All-Freshman Team.
UC San Diego (11-9, 0-1) hosts conference opponent Cal State Fullerton (11-11, 0-1) Friday at 6 p.m. Tickets are available through the
Triton Box Office.
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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.
