Lauren Park-Lane of Seton Hall University wasselected the All-Met Division I women’s college basketball Player of the Year for a second consecutive season as announced Tuesday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.

Being named All-Met is unique in that there are 21 colleges and universities and more than 300 women’s players under the MBWA Division I umbrella.

The 2022-23 All-Met teams will be honored at the 90th MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner on Thursday, April 27, at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel & Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY. The Haggerty dinner is the longest running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States.

A 5-3 senior guard from Wilmington, DE, Park-Lane was named to both the All-Met and Big East Conference First Teams for a third consecutive year. She is just the third back-to-back and fourth two-time Met women’s player of the year since the MBWA inaugurated women’s awards in 1996. She follows in the footsteps of a trio of multiple honorees from Rutgers: Cappie Pondexter, 2003-04-05-06; Shawnetta Stewart, 1999-00; and Tasha Pointer, 1997, 2001.

She also represents the third player from Seton Hall to be selected All-Met Player of the Year. Pirates previously so honored: Dana Wynne, 1997; Ka-Deidre Simmons, 2015.

Park-Lane went on a record-setting tear for her senior season with the Pirates (19-15, 10-10), during which she scored a school-record 686 points (ninth-best in the nation), averaged 20.8 ppg (3rd in Big East, No. 14 in NCAA Division I); had 207 assists (8th in nation), 6.3 per game (2nd Big East, No. 12 NCAA). She also had 40 steals, shot 40.0% from the field, 77.9% at the free throw line, scored in double figures 30 times, 20+ points on 17 occasions and 30+ points in seven games.

On Feb. 13 against DePaul, Park-Lane erupted for a career-high 39 points to set The Hall’s single-game scoring record. In SHU’s first round WNIT victory over Saint Joseph’s, she set the school record for points in a quarter with 19 in the first period and tied the Pirates single-game mark for an NCAA or WNIT game with 30 points overall. She scored 36 points against Creighton in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament, a program record for points in a game in that event.

For her collegiate career, Park-Lane is Seton Hall’s all-time leader in assists with 698 and is No. 2 on the program’s all-time scoring list with 1,905 points, trailing only Tabatha Richardson-Smith’s 1,925 (2012-13 to 2015-16).