2022 MBWA AWARDS
Seton Hall's Park-Lane Leads All-Met Women's Division I Team; Fairfield's Frager Named Top Coach
Chuck Stogel, MBWA, 914-428-6111, chstogel@aol.com
NEW YORK (April 22, 2022) – Lauren Park-Lane of Seton Hall University was selected the All-Met Division I women’s college basketball Player of the Year for 2021-22 as announced Friday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
Joe Frager of Fairfield University was selected Maggie Dixon Met Coach of the Year, while Kitty Henderson of Columbia was named the Rookie of the Year.
The rest of the All-Met First Team: Sidney Cooks, Seton Hall; Anna DeWolfe, Fordham; Abbey Hsu, Columbia; Lou Lopez-Senechal, Fairfield; Madison Stanley, Fairleigh Dickinson.
The All-Met Second Team: Dee Dee Davis and Courtney Warley, Manhattan; Kaitlyn Davis, Columbia; Andra Espinoza-Hunter, Seton Hall; India Pagan, Stony Brook.
The All-Met Third Team: Kadaja Bailey, St. John's; Osh Brown, Rutgers; Emilija Krista Grava, Wagner; Ally Lassen, St. Francis Brooklyn; Anastasia Warren, Stony Brook.
The All-Met teams will be honored at the 89th MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner on Monday, April 25, at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, NY. There are 21 colleges and universities under the Met Basketball Division I umbrella.
A 5-6 junior point-guard from Wilmington, DE, Park-Lane --- who also was named to both the MBWA All-Met and the All-Big East Conference First Teams --- represents the third player from Seton Hall to be selected All-Met Player of the Year since the Met Writers inaugurated women’s awards in 1996. Pirates previously so honored: Dana Wynne, 1997; Ka-Deidre Simmons, 2015.
A workhorse on the court (38.6 minutes per game, No. 1 in the nation), Park-Lane was among the leaders in numerous team, conference and NCAA statistical categories in helping to lead the Pirates (24-13, 12-8) all the way to the championship game of the postseason WNIT.
She averaged 18.3 points per game (third in the BEC, No. 50 in the nation), 1.6 steals (sixth in the BEC), 41.2% (202-of-490) shooting from the field, 39.2% (73-186) from 3-point range (fourth in the BEC) and 84.7% (155-of-183) at the free throw line (second in the BEC, 44th in the nation).
Park-Lane’s 260 assists for the season led both the conference and all of Division I; her 7.0 assists per game were tops in the Big East and No. 4 in the nation. She registered 18 assists in a game against Butler, equaling the conference mark while setting a new program standard. Her 260 SHU record assists exceeds second place by 66. Her 678 points this past season are also a Pirates best.
Named to the WNIT All Tournament team, Park-Lane and her teammates defeated FDU, VCU, Drexel, Columbia and Middle Tennessee before losing the championship final on the road at South Dakota State. 
In his 15th and final year at Fairfield following nine seasons at Southern Connecticut State, the retiring Frager --- who also was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference coach of the year --- earned his first Maggie Dixon Met Coach of the Year designation from the MBWA. He guided the Stags (25-7, 19-1) to the school’s fourth MAAC tournament title and the first since 1998, propelling the team into their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2001.
Fairfield’s 19-1 mark was tied for the most conference wins in the nation; the team captured the MAAC regular season crown by a wide margin of five games, its first regular season flag in 22 years. The Stags registered a school-record 15-game winning streak in 2021-22 and concluded with a program-tying single-season mark of 25 victories.
Frager’s won-lost record in his 15 seasons at Fairfield improved to 285-197 (59.1% W-L) and his career coaching record for 24 seasons concluded at 474-280 (62.9%).
A 5-10 freshman guard from North Curl Curl, Australia, Catriona “Kitty” Henderson was born in Oxfordshire, England, U.K., and grew up Down Under. She started 23 games this past season for the Lions (25-7, 12-2), who advanced to the quarterfinal round of the WNIT. In a loss to Seton Hall in Columbia’s final game, Henderson registered 18 points and seven assists.
For the season she was 21st in the Ivy League in scoring (8.3 ppg), T19 in rebounding (4.6 rpg) and sixth in total assists (78). Henderson shot 41.4% (92-of-222) from the field. 
The Haggerty dinner is the longest running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States.
SUMMARY
NEW YORK (April 22, 2022) – The 2021-22 All-Met Division I women’s college basketball team announced Friday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
FIRST TEAM
Sidney Cooks, Seton Hall • 6-4, Sr., C, Kenosha, WI
Anna DeWolfe, Fordham • 5-9. Jr., G, Cumberland, ME
Abbey Hsu, Columbia • 5-11, So., G, Parkland, FL
Lou Lopez-Senechal, Fairfield • 6-1, Sr., F, Grenoble, France
Lauren Park-Lane, Seton Hall • 5-6, Jr., G, Wilmington, DE
Madison Stanley, Fairleigh Dickinson • 6-1, Gr., F, Woodbridge, NJ 
SECOND TEAM
Dee Dee Davis, Manhattan • 5-8, Jr., G, Bronx, NY
Kaitlyn Davis, Columbia • 6-0, Jr., G/F, Norwalk, CT
Andra Espinoza-Hunter, Seton Hall • 5-11, Gr., F, Ossining, NY
India Pagan, Stony Brook • 6-1, Gr., F, New London, CT
Courtney Warley, Manhattan • 6-3, Gr., C, West Chester, PA
THIRD TEAM
Kadaja Bailey, St. John’s • 6-0, Sr., G, Long Beach, NY
Osh Brown, Rutgers • 6-1, Gr., F, Chillicothe, OH
Emilija Krista Grava, Wagner • 6-0, Sr., F, Ligatne, Latvia
Ally Lassen, St. Francis Brooklyn • 6-1, 5th, F, Point Pleasant, NJ
Anastasia Warren, Stony Brook • 5-8, Sr., G, Atlanta, GA 
Player of the Year: Lauren Park-Lane, Seton Hall
Rookie of the Year: Kitty Henderson, Columbia • 5-10, Fr., G, North Curl Curl, Australia
Coach of the Year: Joe Frager, Fairfield
For a list of previous Women's Division I Awards:
Players of the Year - Coaches of the Year - Rookies of the Year