{"id":291557,"date":"2026-04-29T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291557\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:37:17","slug":"wojciech-gajek-named-avca-national-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291557\/","title":{"rendered":"Wojciech Gajek Named AVCA National Player Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Following a dominant performance in leading No. 3 Long Beach State to the conference championship, freshman opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-volleyball\/roster\/wojciech-gajek\/9946\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9946\" target=\"_blank\">Wojciech Gajek<\/a> has been named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avca.org\/award\/2026-avca-national-collegiate-mens-player-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AVCA National Player of the Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gajek powered Long Beach State to a 2-0 week, highlighted by a championship-clinching 3-2 win over No. 2 Hawai&#8217;i. He was named the tournament&#8217;s Most Valuable Player after delivering one of the most impactful two-match stretches of his season.<\/p>\n<p>Across the championship weekend, Gajek totaled 37 kills on a .484 hitting percentage while averaging 4.63 kills per set. He added six service aces, eight total blocks, and 47.0 points, averaging 5.88 points per set.<\/p>\n<p>He opened the week with 10 kills on .471 hitting in a sweep of UC Irvine, then elevated his play in the title match against Hawai&#8217;i with 27 kills on .489 hitting in the five-set victory. His 27 kills and .489 hitting percentage both marked match highs and were the top individual performances of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Gajek&#8217;s efficiency and terminal attacking were critical in Long Beach State&#8217;s comeback win over Hawai&#8217;i, where the Beach hit .321 as a team in the five-set match and secured the title with a 15-11 fifth-set win.<\/p>\n<p>With the honor, Gajek becomes one of the nation&#8217;s top recognized performers heading into the AVCA National Collegiate Men&#8217;s Volleyball Championship, leading Long Beach State as it continues its championship run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Following a dominant performance in leading No. 3 Long Beach State to the conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-291557","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\/291557","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=291557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}