USC Women's Volleyball's Skylar Fields and Adonia Faumuina Earn Pac-12 Weekly Awards

SAN FRANCISCO – USC women's volleyball senior outside hitter Skylar Fields (Missouri City, Texas/Ridge Point HS) was chosen as the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week for the fourth time this season and freshman setter Adonia Faumuina (Long Beach, Calif./Long Beach Poly HS) was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for matches played the week of Nov. 21-27, the Conference announced on Monday, Nov. 28.
 
Fields' award is the 86th all-time weekly award won by a Trojan. Since 2011, when the Pac-12 began honoring separate offensive and defensive players of the week and introduced a freshman award, Women of Troy have earned 27 offensive awards, 13 defensive awards, and now 21 freshman honors.
 
Fields—who becomes the eighth Trojan to earn four Pac-12 weekly awards in her career—racked up 49 kills in two matches to average 6.13 kills per set and reached double-digit kills for the 28th time this season. She recorded her 16th and 17th matches with 20 or more kills and posted her 10th double-double of the season (10th career) with 10 digs in a win against crosstown rival UCLA. Overall, Fields averaged 6.80 points per set in USC's two matches and continues to lead the conference in kills (570), kills per set (5.14 kps), points (616.5) and points per set (5.55 pps). Her total kills now rank third in USC single-season history and her points rank eighth.
 
Faumuina gave up her redshirt season and played in her first collegiate match—pressed into action due to injury to USC starting setter Mia Tuaniga—and produced a double-double with 39 assists and 12 digs to lead the Trojans to a four-set victory over the Bruins. She also added three blocks and two kills for 3.5 points. She is the first Trojan to earn Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors since Tuaniga was chosen on Nov. 22, 2021, last season.
 
USC (21-10) was awarded one of 32 at-large berths into the 2022 NCAA tournament and hold the sixth seed in the Texas quarter of the bracket. The Trojans will face Big South champion High Point (23-9) in a first-round match on Friday, Dec. 2, at Covelli Center in Columbus, Ohio. USC makes its first appearance in the postseason tournament since 2019 and the program's 38th overall. The Trojans own three NCAA titles (1981, 2002, '03) and are 127-41 (.756) all-time in the postseason with an 81-34 (.704) mark in NCAA tournament matches. USC also won three AIAW national championships (1976, '77, '80) prior to the institution of the NCAA's tourney.
 
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