UCLA made it a clean sweep of the Pac-12 Player of the Week awards, with senior forward Darian Jenkins winning offensive honors for the second time this season, sophomore defender Hailie Mace winning defensive honors, and freshman Teagan Micah winning Goalkeeper of the Week for the second time.
Jenkins scored a pair of game-winning goals in Bruin victories at No. 25 Pepperdine (3-0) and against Long Beach State (2-1). Jenkins has scored the game-winning goal in three consecutive games and leads UCLA and the Pac-12 in scoring with six goals and 14 points. She also ranks fourth in the nation with four game-winning goals. This is Jenkins' second offensive player of the week award this season and third of her career.
Mace played outstanding defense in UCLA's shutout win over Pepperdine and in the Bruins' 2-1 win over Long Beach State. She had an assist on the Bruins' second goal at Pepperdine, and played all but seven minutes of the contest. She played the full 90 and made key defensive plays to help the Bruins to victory. Mace's weekly honor is the first of her career.
Micah earned her fourth shutout of the season in the win over Pepperdine and had two saves in each of the Bruins' two games. In the Long Beach State victory, she made three critical stops at the end of the contest, stopping a close-range shot in the 77th minute, making an acrobatic save in the 87th minute and then snagging a corner kick in the closing seconds to secure the win. This is Micah's second career honor.
This is the first weekly sweep by a school this season and only the third sweep since the three awards were established in 2014. UCLA has won Pac-12 weekly honors a total of seven times this season and 60 times in Pac-12 history.
UCLA begins Pac-12 Conference play on Thursday, Sept. 22 against Arizona State at Drake Stadium at 7pm.