Feb. 9, 2009

Michelle Stein of the women's water polo team and Murphy Troy of the men's volleyball team were named USC's Wells Fargo Student-Athletes of the Week today (Feb. 9) for the week of Feb. 2-8.

Stein, a senior, was USC's leading scorer in three of its five games last week. After starting the season with a hat trick in the Trojans' opener against Hartwick, she scored 10 goals in four games at the Stanford Invitational to help push USC to the tournament championship. In the crucial Saturday matchup between the No. 1 Trojans and No. 2 Cardinal, Stein scored four goals, including two late-game goals to force overtime and one during overtime to help USC get to a 12-10 win. In the championship game against Hawai'i, Stein had another multiple-goal game with three to lead USC in scoring once again. She has scored 13 goals this season to average 2.6 goals per game through the first five games of the year.

The sophomore Troy helped lead USC to consecutive wins over No. 9 BYU by getting 52 kills. He had a match-high 28 kills while hitting a blazing .610 with 9 digs and 2 aces in Friday's 4-set win that snapped the Trojans' 14-match losing streak to the Cougars. He then came back Saturday to get a match-best 24 kills while hitting .391 and added 5 digs and 3 aces in a tight 5-set victory to give USC its first back-to-back wins over BYU since 1997-98. Troy was named AVCA National Player of the Week (USC's first since 2002) and Co-MPSF Player of the Week.