On Monday evening, April 22, at the 63rd annual NIT/MBWA Collegiate Awards, Gina Somma of Manhattan became the inaugural Met Basketball Writers Association Division I Women's Player of the Year.

The annual dinner was held at the Giants Stadium Club in East Rutherford, NJ.

Somma, a 6-0 senior forward for the Jaspers, capped off a tremendous career for the women's basketball program by being named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Player of the Year and Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American. She finished third in the nation in scoring (25.6 ppg) and led the Jaspers to the MAAC title and an NCAA Tournament berth.

Somma graduated having scored 1,838 points and grabbing 819 rebounds, which ranked her third and fifth, respectively, on Manhattan's all-time list. She was named Second Team All-MAAC as a sophomore and junior, and paced the team in scoring, steals, and blocks three times, while leading the team in rebounding all four years.