IRVINE, Calif.—University of Hawai’i women’s volleyball players Amber Igiede and Kate Lang both earned their second-straight Big West Offensive Player and Setter of the Week awards respectively after leading the Rainbow Wahine to a two-match series sweep over Southern California last week.
For Igiede, it marks her eight career Big West weekly honor—five of which are for Offensive Player of the Week. In Thursday’s five-set win over the Women of Troy, the senior middle blocker recorded team-highs with 16 kills, while hitting .367, with eight total blocks, including one solo. Igiede also had seven digs and one service ace to close the match with 21.5 points for her 14th career 20-plus point outing. On Saturday, she put down a team-best 15 kills with just one error to hit a match-high .609 (15-1-23) in the four-setter. The Baton Rouge, La., native added three service aces, six digs and two blocks in front of 7,282 fans.
In the third set of Saturday’s match, Igiede became just the 21st Rainbow Wahine to record 1,000 career kills.
Lang now has received seven career weekly honors, five as Setter of the Week. The junior dished out 91 of the team’s 102 assists to go with 22 digs, six aces and two kills in two wins over USC. On Thursday, Lang compiled 44 assists and finished the match one dig shy of a double-double with nine while serving up three aces and a kill against the Women of Troy. Saturday, Lang notched a second double-double of the season with 47 assists with three errors for a .427 set percentage while scooping up a team-high 13 digs and adding three more aces.
Lang currently leads The Big West with 10.05 assists per set. The native of Keller, Texas, also eclipsed the 500-dig career mark over the weekend, totaling 504 through 62 matches for Hawai’i.
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