Violet Alama is healthy again.

That isn’t good news for the rest of the Big West.

The Cal State Northridge senior won her first conference player of the week award on Monday after averaging 13.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in two games over the weekend.

Alama posted her first double-double of the season with a season-high 15 points and 13 rebounds in a loss to conference co-leader Pacific on Friday. Two days later, Alama finished with 13 points and six rebounds in a two-point win over UC Davis to help the Matadors move a game over .500 in conference play at 7-6.

"We’ve been inconsistent so far, but we’re a team with a lot of potential," Alama said. "I think we’re getting ready to peak."

The 2009 Kalani High alumna had surgery in the offseason after injuring her knee last year.

She still managed to share the Big West’s sixth woman of the year award and earned honorable mention all-conference honors.

Dating back to high school, Alama has had both an ACL surgery and a microfracture procedure on her knee, but has battled back to form.

She’s currently 11th in the conference, averaging 7.5 rebounds a game.

"I wasn’t in the type of condition I wanted to be in to start the year and I didn’t have the same strength that I was used to," said Alama, who is second on the team in rebounds overall.

She has moved into fifth place on the school’s all-time list with 664 rebounds in her career.

The Matadors are currently tied for fifth in the conference, two games behind co-leaders Pacific and Hawaii with five to play.

Northridge begins its final road trip of the regular season this week that ends March 2 at Hawaii.

"It’s honestly like every kid’s dream from Hawaii to be able to play in front of your family," said Alama, who also played at the Stan Sheriff Center as a sophomore. "To be able to come back at the end of my senior season and play in front of family is such an honor."

When Alama was notified of her player of the week award Monday, she immediately thought of her family.

"I was very surprised and humbled because it was the first of my career, so I wasn’t really expecting it," Alama said. "My motivation is to make my parents proud, so this is for them."

Since going 8-50 in Alama’s first two years, Northridge is 30-26 since. Alama has yet to win a game in the Big West Conference tournament, but the Matadors did make the postseason last year, losing by two to San Diego in the opening round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.