Masonius Named All-Met Player of the Year; Eads Top Rookie - Seton Hall University Athletics
Seton Hall graduate student Faith Masonius (Spring Lake, N.J.) was named All-Met Division I Player of the Year, while freshman Jada Eads (Orlando, Fla.) earn...
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NEW YORK – Seton Hall graduate student Faith Masonius (Spring Lake, N.J.) was named All-Met Division I Player of the Year, while freshman Jada Eads (Orlando, Fla.) earned Division I Rookie of the Year honors as selected by the Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) on Tuesday.
Additionally, sophomore Savannah Catalon (Mansfield, Texas) was selected as an All-Met Team Honorable Mention.
Masonius becomes only the fifth different Seton Hall player to earn the prestigious award, joining Jodi Brooks in 1993-94, Dana Wynne in 1996-97, Ka-Deidre Simmons in 2014-15, and Lauren Park-Lane, who won it in back-to-back years in 2021-22 and 2022-23. Masonius was also named to the All-Met First Team.
Named to the All-BIG EAST First Team, no one in recent memory has made a larger immediate impact, both on and off the court, like Masonius has in her only year in South Orange. Named BIG EAST Player of the Week twice, and USBWA National Player of the Week on Jan. 7, she saw her scoring average increase from 6.6 points per game at the University of Maryland to 15.0 points per game at Seton Hall. Ranking in the BIG EAST top-12 in six different categories, Masonius was recognized with a BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll five times and led The Hall in scoring 12 times. Named to the Women's College All-Star Game Player Watch List, she reached the prestigious 1,000-points milestone against LeMoyne on Dec. 14 and closed her career with over 1,300 points.
No stranger to the big moment, Masonius hit a game-winning shot with a backwards flip over her head as time expired to defeat Villanova on New Years Day… a play that will live forever in Seton Hall history.
Eads is Seton Hall's first Division I All-Met Rookie of the Year since the award began following the 2011-12 season. She was also named to the All-Met Second Team.
Eads became the first player in Seton Hall history to earn First Team All-BIG EAST honors in her freshman season. The 5-foot-7 dynamo was named BIG EAST Player of the Week on Dec. 30 and BIG EAST Freshman of the Week five times during the season. Her 13.8 points per game is the third-highest scoring average by a freshman in Seton Hall history and finished the season ranked 11th in the BIG EAST Conference. Eads erupted for career-highs of 27 points and seven assists against Georgetown on Jan. 4. She closed the season with the first two double-doubles of her career, both against WBIT competition.
Catalon missed nine games this season due to injury, and had she not, may have been a serious contender for BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year. Despite her absence for nearly a third of the year, the sophomore's 71 steals are tied for the 12th-highest single-season total in Seton Hall history. Had she qualified, her 4.10 steals per BIG EAST game would've led the conference by a large margin. On Feb. 8 against Xavier, Catalon broke Seton Hall's single game record with 11 steals, a mark that stood for 47 years. Offensively, she averaged 13.5 points per game and erupted for a career-high 36 points against DePaul on Feb. 27.
The 92nd MBWA All-Met Haggerty Awards dinner is scheduled for Thursday evening, April 24, 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.
