ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (Mar. 10, 2025) – The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), today announced the 2025 Women’s Basketball Major Awards, as voted on by the league’s 13 head coaches.
Quinnipiac University headlined major awards, claiming three out of the five postseason honors. Gal Raviv highlighted the student-athlete award winners being named both MAAC Player of the Year and MAAC Rookie of the Year, while the Bobcats’ Tricia Frabbri was chosen by her peers as the MAAC Coach of the Year. Also receiving postseason hardware was Sacred Heart University’s Ny'Ceara Pryor, the MAAC Defensive Player of the Year and Fairfield University’s Raiana Brown, the MAAC Sixth Player of the Year.
A unanimous All-MAAC First Team choice and MAAC All-Rookie Team selection, Raviv enjoyed success during her first year in Hamden, CT, starting in all 29 games for the Bobcats. She averaged 18.0 points, 5.7 rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 1.4 steals. She ranked second in the MAAC in total points, scoring 522, third in scoring average, third in assists (124), fourth in assists per game, and ninth in assist to turnover ratio. Raviv played in 36.4 minutes per game, a mark that paced the MAAC and she was also second in field goals, second in field goal percentage, and third in field goal attempts. She collected a MAAC-best 11 weekly honors, earning nine Rookie of the Week awards and two Player of the Week accolades in 2024-25.
A 30 year veteran, Frabbri was named MAAC Coach of the Year for the fifth time in her Hall of Fame Career. The all-time winningest coach in Quinnipiac women’s basketball history, Fabbri guided the Bobcats to a MAAC-best overall record of 26-3, while finishing 18-2 in the MAAC. It was the fifth time she has led Quinnipiac to at least 18 conference wins and it was her 10
th 20 win season with Quinnipiac a member of the MAAC dating back to 2012-13. Fabbri’s balanced Bobcats ranked second in the league in scoring offense, second in scoring defense, and second in scoring margin.
The nation’s steals leader, Pryor secured the MAAC Defensive Player of the Year award after recording 120 steals and a 4.1 steals per game. She was the NCAA leader in steals per game and she ranked third in the NCAA in total steals. Pryor held four of the league’s top 10 individual steals performances in 2025, highlighted by an 11 steals contest against Manhattan on March 6 and a 10 steal performance in out of conference action against UAlbany on November 16. Both marks raked first and second, respectively, on the MAAC individual leaderboard.
Picking up the MAAC Sixth Player of the Year trophy was Brown from Fairfield. A graduate student from Wheatly Heights, NY, she appeared in 27 games, all in reserve, for the Stags during the season. The road runner averaged 7.9 points and 3.5 rebounds in just 12.8 minutes of action per game.
The 2024-25 campaign culminates with the 2025 MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships from March 11-15 at Atlantic City's Historic Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall for the sixth consecutive year dating back to 2020. For all information regarding the 2025 MAAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships, please visit
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About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 13 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 44th year of competition during the 2024-25 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius University, Fairfield University, Iona University, Manhattan University, Marist University, Merrimack College, Mount St. Mary’s University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Sacred Heart University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.
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