Riley Weiss of Columbia University was named the All-Met Division I women's college basketball Player of the Year for 2025-26 as announced by the Met Basketball Writers Association.

A 5-10 junior guard from Hewlett, NY, Weiss --- who also was named Ivy League player of the year --- helped the Lions (25-8, 11-3) finish second in the league's regular season before moving on to sweep five postseason games in annexing the WBIT tournament title.Weiss set a school record in scoring 662 points this past season (No. 1 Ivy, No. 23 NCAA) for a 20.1 points per game average (No. 1 Ivy, No. 18 NCAA). In the WBIT event, she averaged 21.0 points with 20 or more in each of the five games and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Leading the Ivy League with 93 made 3-point goals and a 37.8% accuracy from beyond the arc, Weiss shot 43.2% overall from the floor and 83.0% at the free throw line, while posting 70 assists and 57 steals. She registered a single-game school record 40 points against Dartmouth and twice equaled the school mark with nine 3-pointers in a game.

An All-Met First Team designee in 2025, Weiss was named an Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention for this past season, the third Lion to achieve AP A-A status following Judie Lomax (2010) and two-time All-American Abbey Hsu (2023, 2024). This is the third time a Columbia player has been selected as Division I Player of the Year since the MBWA began women's awards in 1996, following Camille Zimmerman (2017) and Hsu (2024).

Weiss now has scored 1,429 points in her three seasons at Columbia.