HONOLULU – Hawai'i goalkeeper Lauren Marquez earned Big West Defensive Player of the Week honors Monday after posting a shutout in a 1-0 win over UC Davis in Thursday's conference opener.
 
The graduate student posted her second clean sheet of the season and the fifth of her career, making a pair of second-half saves to preserve the victory. Marquez made a number of big plays in the net down the stretch, including a huge save on a UC Davis corner kick attempt with eight minutes to play and UH ahead by a goal.
 
Marquez currently leads the conference in goals allowed average, giving up just 0.857 goals per match over 315 minutes of action in the net. The Glendale, Ariz., native is the only qualified Big West goalkeeper allowing fewer than a goal per match and is one of five goalies in the league with multiple shutouts on the season.
 
It's the second straight week that a Rainbow Wahine goalie has been named Big West Defensive Player of the Week, after Sophie Augustin took home the honor last week after leading UH to a win at Portland State.
 
This marks the first time since The Big West began honoring a defensive player of the week in 2010 that a team has had two different goalies win the award in back-to-back weeks. It's also just the third time since during that stretch that a team has had two different goalies win the award in a season (CSUN, 2019; Pacific, 2010).