{"id":193825,"date":"2026-02-25T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:28:08","slug":"ucis-lauren-hett-lands-fourth-weekly-award-of-career-following-conference-opening-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193825\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI\u2019s Lauren Hett Lands Fourth Weekly Award of Career Following Conference Opening Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/bigwest.org\/sports\/2022\/3\/23\/big-west-womens-water-polo-player-of-the-week.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All-Time Weekly Winners&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tBig West Women&#8217;s Water Polo Player of the Week<br \/>Lauren Hett, UC Irvine | Junior \u2022 Attacker \u2022 Orinda, Calif.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{8001ab4d-d332-4a44-9391-3c79046844bb}{89}\" paraid=\"519057676\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"8136\" data-airgap-id=\"48\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UC-Irvine.png\" style=\"display:inline-block; float:right\" width=\"150\"\/>UC Irvine junior attacker Lauren Hett poured in four goals and added two assists to earn Big West Offensive Player of the Week honors, presented by Kap 7 International, after leading the Anteaters to their first conference win of the season.\u00a0This is the fourth weekly distinction of the junior&#8217;s career (Feb. 19, March 12, 2025 | April 3, 2024). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{56720844-713c-4623-9be6-ee9b9c2d5dea}{31}\" paraid=\"360349947\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Hett shot an impressive .800 from the field in a statement 14-10 victory over No. 14 UC San Diego, directly contributing to nearly half of UC Irvine&#8217;s scoring output.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{56720844-713c-4623-9be6-ee9b9c2d5dea}{31}\" paraid=\"360349947\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The junior attacker registered the eighth hat trick of the season in the matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tHett now leads the squad with 38 goals and 20 assists through 14 games, setting the tone in conference play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{56720844-713c-4623-9be6-ee9b9c2d5dea}{31}\" paraid=\"360349947\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Also Nominated:\u00a0Eliza Harlow (UC Santa Barbara), Ashley Wallin (UC Davis), Erika Staine (CSUN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; All-Time Weekly Winners&gt;&gt;&gt; Big West Women&#8217;s Water Polo Player of the WeekLauren Hett, UC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-193825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}