NEW YORK (April 13, 2026) – Caroline Peper of New York University was selected the All-Met Division III women’s college basketball Player of the Year as announced Monday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
Meg Barber of New York University was selected Coach of the Year for a fifth consecutive season and sixth time overall.
The rest of the All-Met First Team: Carolae Barton, USMMA; Brooke Batchelor, NYU; Alexa Charles, Hunter; Alyssa Craigwell, Montclair State; Emily Grasseler, USMMA; Renee Wells, William Paterson.
The All-Met Second Team: Zahra Alexander, NYU; Leyla Castro, Stevens; Heaven Figueroa, Lehman; Brianna Jackson, Brooklyn; Michaela Lattimore, John Jay; Esther Ramos, Manhattanville.
The All-Met Third Team: Yasmene Clark, NYU; Brianna Guglielmo, Mount Saint Mary; Jada Jacobs, William Paterson; Anna Kitch, Brooklyn; Sara Macary, Western Connecticut State; Sierra McDermed, Vassar.
All-Met Honorable Mention: Madelyne Barone, St. Joseph’s-Long Island; Meghan Gentile, New Jersey City; Gianna Henriques, Hunter; Hannah Ramsden, USMMA; Mercedes Perez, St. Joseph’s-Brooklyn.
Being named All-Met is unique in that there are 35 colleges and universities and more than 500 players under the MBWA Division III women’s umbrella.
The 2025-26 All-Met teams will be honored at the 93rd annual MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner on Thursday, April 23, 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 6-0 senior forward/guard from South Easton, MA, Peper --- who also was named the University Athletic Association player of the year, and a WBCA All-America and the WBCA National Player of the Year --- started and played in 29 of 30 games for the Violets (29-1, 14-0 UAA), leading NYU with 18.6 points per game and 100 assists. She also had 78 steals, shot 41.4% from the field and 81.5% at the free throw line.
An All-Met Second Team selection in 2025, Peper set a program record by making 112 3-point shots this past season. She tied an NYU single-game scoring record with 41 points on Nov. 30, 2025, in a victory over USMMA as part of the Medgar Evers Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial Tournament, an event for which she was named the MVP. 
The lone senior on this season’s Violets team, Peper is No. 9 on the Violets all-time scoring list with 1,426 points across four seasons.
This is the 13th time that NYU has provided the MBWA Player of the Year and the third in a row for the Violets following Natalie Bruns in 2024 and 2025.
Barber, a 2002 New York University grad and standout collegiate player who just completed her eighth year at the NYU coaching helm, guided this past season’s team (29-1) to a fifth consecutive UAA title with an undefeated 14-0 regular season league record. After winning back-to-back NCAA national championships in 2024 and 2025, the Violets returned to the Final Four stage where they lost to Scranton in the semifinals.
Prior to that season-ending defeat, NYU’s Elite Eight triumph represented the program’s 91st consecutive victory, the longest winning streak in Division III history (women or men) and the second-longest in all of NCAA basketball no matter what level or gender, exceeded only by the UConn women with 111 straight wins in 2014-17.
For this season’s achievements, Barber was named the WBCA national coach of the year for a fourth time (2022, 2024-25-26) while the NYU braintrust was named coaching staff of the year by the UAA. The MBWA Coach of the Year accolade is Barber’s sixth overall (2020, 2022-23-24-25-26), tying her with her former Violets coach Janice Quinn (1996-97, 99, 2001, 04, 07) for the most by any Met area Division III coach.
Barber’s coaching record over seven active team seasons ---the Violets did not compete in 2020-21 due to the Covid pandemic --- is 179-22, a phenomenal .891 won-loss percentage. Prior to joining NYU as head coach for the 2018-19 season, Barber, a native of Hoosick Falls, NY, held coaching positions at Temple and William & Mary.
For a list of previous Women's Division III Awards:
Players of the Year - Coaches of the Year
SUMMARY
NEW YORK (April 13, 2026) – The 2025-26 All-Met Division III women’s college basketball team announced Monday by the Met Basketball Writers Association.
FIRST TEAM
Carolae Barton, USMMA • 6-1, So., F, Waldorf, MD
Brooke Batchelor, NYU • 5-10, Jr., G, Oakton, VA
Alexa Charles, Hunter • 5-8, Sr., G, Tarrytown, NY
Alyssa Craigwell, Montclair State • 5-11, So., F, Secaucus, NJ
Emily Grasseler, USMMA • 6-0, Jr., F, Millbrook, NY
Caroline Peper, NYU • 6-0, Sr., F/G, South Easton, MA
Renee Wells, William Paterson • 5-10, Sr., F, Leonardo, NJ
SECOND TEAM
Zahra Alexander, NYU • 5-9, So., G, South Orange, NJ
Leyla Castro, Stevens • 5-5, Sr., G, Old Bridge, NJ
Heaven Figueroa, Lehman • 5-7, Gr., G, Brooklyn, NY
Brianna Jackson, Brooklyn • 5-6, Jr., G, Brooklyn, NY
Michaela Lattimore, John Jay • 5-10, Jr., F, Morristown, NJ
Esther Ramos, Manhattanville • 5-8, Sr., F, Queens, NY
THIRD TEAM
Yasmene Clark, NYU • 6-0, Jr., F, Duncan, SC
Brianna Guglielmo, Mount St. Mary • 5-6, Sr., G/F, Smithtown, NY
Jada Jacobs, William Paterson • 5-5, Jr., G, Mount Laurel, NJ
Anna Kitch, Brooklyn • 5-9, Sr., G/F, New York, NY
Sara Macary, Western Connecticut State • 6-0, Sr., C, Naugatuck, CT
Sierra McDermed, Vassar • 5-9, Sr., G, San Antonio, TX
HONORABLE MENTION
Madelyne Barone, St. Joseph’s-Long Island; Meghan Gentile, New Jersey City;
Gianna Henriques, Hunter; Hannah Ramsden, USMMA; Mercedes Perez, St. Joseph’s-Brooklyn
Coach of the Year: Meg Barber, NYU
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