By: Chuck Stogel, MBWA, 914-428-6111, chstogel@aol.com
NEW YORK (April 22, 2025) – Faith Masonius of Seton Hall University was named the All-Met Division I women’s college basketball Player of the Year for 2024-25 as announced Tuesday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
Megan Griffith of Columbia was selected the Maggie Dixon Met Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons and Jada Eads of Seton Hall was named the Rookie of the Year.
The All-Met First Team: Destiny Adams, Rutgers; Meghan Andersen, Fairfield; Teneisia Brown, Fairleigh Dickinson; Kitty Henderson and Riley Weiss, Columbia; Faith Masonius, Seton Hall.
The All-Met Second Team: Cecelia Collins, Columbia; Lashae Dwyer, St. John’s; Jada Eads, Seton Hall; Kaety L’Amoreaux, Fairfield; Ny’Ceara Pryor, Sacred Heart.
The All-Met Third Team: Ashley Chea, Princeton; Taylor Donaldson, Fordham; Zaida Gonzalez, Stony Brook; Trinity Hady, Army West Point; Fatmata Janneh, Saint Peter’s; Ava Renninger, Fairleigh Dickinson.
All-Met Honorable Mention: Skye Belker, Princeton; Savannah Catalon, Seton Hall; Morgan Lee, Marist; Damaris Rodriguez, Monmouth.
Being named All-Met is a unique honor in that there are 21 colleges and universities and more than 300 women’s players under the MBWA Division I umbrella.
The 2024-25 All-Met teams will be honored at the 92nd MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner on Thursday, April 24, at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel & Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY. The Haggerty dinner, which also will be Livestreamed, is the longest running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States.
A 6-1 graduate forward from Spring Lake, NJ, Masonius --- a transfer from the University of Maryland who also was named to the All-Big East Conference First Team this past season – provided an immediate impact on the Pirates program during her only year in South Orange.
With her scoring average rising from 6.6 points per game at Maryland to 15.0 at Seton Hall, Masonius led SHU in scoring while starting all 33 games and averaging 32.7 minutes. She was tops in rebounds with 5.2 rpg, and registered 2.8 assists (91 total) and 1.9 steals (61). She ranked in the top 12 statistically in the Big East in six categories, including ninth in scoring, seventh in field goal percentage (45.6), seventh in steals per game and 12th in rebounding.
During the regular season, Masonius was named USBWA National player of the week once, selected as Big East player of the week twice and five times was named to the conference weekly honor roll. She scored in double figures in 28 games, including seven times with 20+ points. Along with some highly talented teammates, she helped SHU improve from 17-15 (8-10 Big East) last year to 23-10 (13-5) this season along with receiving an invite to the Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament.
No stranger to the big moment, Masonius hit a game-winning shot with a backwards flip over her head as time expired to defeat host Villanova 56-55 on New Year’s Day.
Prior to Seton Hall, Masonius played four-plus seasons with the Terps, starting as a freshman in 2019-20. She played in 138 games at the UofM, but only the first nine in 2021-22 before sustaining a season-ending injury. Including the 33 games played and 494 points she tallied for the Pirates this past season, Masonius concluded her collegiate career with 171 games played and 1,326 points.
Masonius represents the fourth Pirate and fifth time overall a player from Seton Hall has been named the Met Writers Player of the Year since the association began women’s awards in 1996. She was preceded by: Dana Wynne, 1997; Ka-Deidre Simmons, 2015; Lauren Park-Lane, 2022 and 2023.
One of 10 children in an athletic family, Faith’s parents are T.J. and Ellen Masonius. Her Mom played basketball at Saint Joseph’s and her Dad competed in rugby and lacrosse at Mount St. Mary’s. A graduate of Manasquan (NJ) High School, Masonius exceeded 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds during her scholastic tenure.
Griffith, who also was named the MBWA Coach of the Year in 2023, just concluded her ninth year as head coach of the Lions. This also was the third consecutive season that the Ivy League has named Columbia its coaching staff of the year.
A 2007 Columbia graduate who captained the Lions for three seasons and twice was named an All-Ivy selection, Griffith
guided Columbia to a 24-7 overall record (13-1 Ivy regular season) in 2024-25 and the program’s first outright Ivy League
regular season title.
The Lions posted notable non-conference wins over Atlantic Sun champion FGCU and MAC champion Ball State, as well as
ending Princeton's 30-game home winning streak.
During the season, Columbia matched the program’s longest winning streak with 11 straight victories. The Lions earned
votes in the national AP Poll and USBWA Coaches Poll multiple weeks, marking their third-straight season receiving votes.
After dropping the conference’s tournament championship game, the Lions received their second straight NCAA at-large bid,
followed by a win over Washington in a First Four game before bowing out in a loss to West Virginia.
In eight competitive seasons at the campus on Morningside Heights in Manhattan --- the Lions sat out 2020-21 due to the
Covid pandemic --- Griffith is the winningest coach in Columbia women’s basketball history with a record of 146-91 (.627 W-L pct).
Along with being named the MBWA Division I Women’s Rookie of the Year, Eads also was an All-Met Second Team selection. A 5-7 guard from Orlando, FL, she is the
first player in Seton Hall history to earn All-Big East First Team honors as a freshman in addition to being named to the All-Conference Freshman Team.
Her 13.8 points per game in 2024-25 represented the second-highest scoring average by a freshman in Seton Hall annals, and was second on the team this season and 11th overall in the Big East. She also averaged 4.3 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.7 steals per game. Scoring in double figures 22 times, she recorded a career high of 27 points against Georgetown on Jan. 4 and had her first career double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds in a win over Quinnipiac in the first round of the postseason WBIT.
The Haggerty Awards dinner on Thursday is to be Livestreamed via the MBWA website. Here is the link: https://metbasketballwriters.org/2025haggertylivestream.
For a list of previous Women's Division I Awards:
Players of the Year - Coaches of the Year - Rookies of the Year
SUMMARY
NEW YORK (April 22, 2025) – The 2024-25 All-Met Division I women’s college basketball team announced Tuesday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
FIRST TEAM
Destiny Adams, Rutgers • 6-3, Sr., G/F Manchester, NJ
Meghan Andersen, Fairfield • 6-1, So., RR Wantagh, NY
Teneisia Brown, FDU • 6-2, Gr., F/C Montego Bay, Jamaica
Kitty Henderson, Columbia • 5-10, Sr., G North Curl Curl, Australia
Faith Masonius, Seton Hall • 6-1, Gr., F Spring Lake, NJ
Riley Weiss, Columbia • 5-10, So., G Hewlett, NY
SECOND TEAM
Cecelia Collins, Columbia • 6-0, Sr., G Scranton, PA
Lashae Dwyer, St. John’s • 5-6, Sr., G Toronto, ON
Jada Eads, Seton Hall • 5-7, Fr., G Orlando, FL
Kaety L’Amoreaux, Fairfield • 5-6, So., G Endwell, NY
Ny’Ceara Pryor, Sacred Heart • 5-3, Jr., G Baltimore, MD
THIRD TEAM
Ashley Chea, Princeton • 5-8, So., G Los Angeles, CA
Taylor Donaldson, Fordham • 5-10, Gr., G Newbury Park, CA
Zaida Gonzalez, Stony Brook • 5-9, Sr., G W. Palm Beach, FL
Trinity Hady, Army West Point • 5-8, Sr., G Lakeland, FL
Fatmata Janneh, Saint Peter’s • 6-2, So., F London, UK
Ava Renninger, FDU • 5-6, Fr., G Yardley, PA
HONORABLE MENTION
Skye Belker, Princeton; Savannah Catalon, Seton Hall; Morgan Lee, Marist; Damaris Rodriguez, Monmouth.
Player of the Year: Faith Masonius, Seton Hall • Masonius Highlight Video
Maggie Dixon Coach of the Year: Megan Griffith, Columbia
Rookie of the Year: Jada Eads, Seton Hall
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