{"id":255773,"date":"2026-04-07T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:18:21","slug":"jackson-cryst-earns-big-west-defensive-player-of-the-week-honors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255773\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Cryst Earns Big West Defensive Player Of The Week Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Via Long Beach State University Athletics,  13h ago <\/p>\n<p> LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Jackson Cryst continued his standout freshman campaign by earning Big West Defensive Player of the Week honors, the conference announced Monday. It marks his third weekly award of the season and his second straight recognition after being named Freshman of the Week on March 30. Cryst also earned Defensive Player of the Week honors earlier this season on Jan. 12. Cryst anchored Long Beach State at the net in a pair of conference victories over UC San Diego, totaling 12 blocks to average 1.50 blocks per set. He added three service aces across the two matches,\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"block-a_d-registration__img\" alt=\"Follow your favorite teams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long-beach-state-1-150x150.png\" data-refresh=\"logo\"\/> <a class=\"block-a_d-registration__cta\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/account\/create\/?trid=registration-ad\" aria-label=\"Follow your favorite teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Follow your favorite teams <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/news\/2026\/4\/6\/mens-volleyball-jackson-cryst-earns-big-west-defensive-player-of-the-week-honors\" class=\"post-external__source btn link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Long Beach State University Athletics <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Long Beach State University Athletics, 13h ago LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Jackson Cryst continued his standout freshman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-255773","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\/255773","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=255773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}