{"id":506309,"date":"2026-10-24T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506309\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:34:08","slug":"hewitt-smith-moves-up-sjsu-career-solo-block-list-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506309\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewitt-Smith Moves Up SJSU Career Solo Block List &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/ava-hewitt\" title=\"Ava Hewitt-Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Hewitt-Smith<\/a> moved up the Spartan career solo blocking list and led the team in kills as the San Jos\u00e9 State volleyball team lost at New Mexico, 3-1 (25-16, 25-20, 23-25, 25-15) Friday night in a Mountain West match at The Pit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/ava-hewitt\" title=\"Ava Hewitt-Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Hewitt-Smith<\/a> moved into seventh place on the San Jos\u00e9 State career solo block list with two solo blocks against the Lobos. She ended the night with 53 solo blocks in her two-year career, tying Lisa Ice (1982-86) and Gayle Olsen (191-83). Hewitt-Smith needs 12 solo blocks to tie <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/joslynn-gallop\" title=\"Joslynn Gallop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joslynn Gallop<\/a> (1997-00), who had 65 in her career.<br \/>\nHewitt-Smith led the Spartan blocking attack with five total blocks, adding three assists to go with her two solo blocks.<br \/>\nHewitt-Smith hit .320 for the night to lead the team. She had a team-high 11 kills on 25 attempts and only three errors.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/morgan-graves\" title=\"Morgan Graves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Graves<\/a> added eight kills, while <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/zuzana-kosikova\" title=\"Zuzana Kos\u00edkov\u00e1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zuzana Kos\u00edkov\u00e1<\/a> had six kills.<br \/>\nSan Jos\u00e9 State outblocked New Mexico, 12-6, in the match with eight solo blocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/learden-lee\" title=\"Learden Lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learden Lee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/aniyah-hall\" title=\"Aniyah Hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aniyah Hall<\/a> each had two solo blocks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/lolohea-fonua\" title=\"Lolohea Fonua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lolohea Fonua<\/a> led the Spartan defense with nine digs, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/fatimah-hall\" title=\"Fatimah Hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fatimah Hall<\/a> with seven and Kos\u00edkov\u00e1 and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/hanna-darvas\" title=\"Hanna Darvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hanna Darvas<\/a> with six.<br \/>\nThe Spartans won the third set 25-23, taking the lead for good at 17-16 on a Lobo hitting error. Kos\u00edkov\u00e1 sealed the win with a kill.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT \u2013 The two teams play Sunday night at The Pit. First serve at 6 p.m. PT, and can be seen on MW+.<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBUQUERQUE\u2014Ava Hewitt-Smith moved up the Spartan career solo blocking list and led the team in kills as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-506309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506309","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=506309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}