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Weiss Wins 2025-26 Met Basketball Player of the Year
4/21/2026 12:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Weiss and Page named to All-Met Teams
NEW YORK – Columbia junior Riley Weiss has been voted the 2025-26 All-Met Division I Women's College Basketball Player of the Year, announced Tuesday by the Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA). Weiss was also named First Team All-Met, while senior guard/forward Perri Page earned Second Team All-Met honors
Weiss is the third player in program history to earn the MBWA's highest honor, joining Abbey Hsu (2023-24) and Camille Zimmerman (2016-17). All three of Columbia's MBWA Players of the Year have come in the Megan Griffith head-coaching era. The MBWA's women's awards first began in 1996.
The 2025-26 All-Met teams will be honored at the 93rd MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner on Thursday, April 23, at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel & Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY. The Haggerty dinner, which also will be live streamed, is the longest-running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States. Click here to access the live stream of Thursday night's dinner.
The MBWA Award is the latest of a slew of honors for Weiss. Her 2025-26 accolades include All-America Honorable Mentions by the Associated Press and Women's Basketball Coaches Association, being named Ivy League Player of the Year, and being unanimously voted First Team All-Ivy League. She also earned Most Outstanding Player for the 2026 WBIT, averaging north of 21 points, shooting 47 percent from the field and 43.3 percent (13-30) from three-point range to lead the Lions to the title. Columbia is the first Ivy League women's basketball program to win a major postseason tournament, and the first on the men's or women's side since the Princeton men's team won the 1975 NIT.
Weiss had a stellar junior campaign, setting a Columbia single-season record with 662 points and averaging 20.1 points per game. In doing so, she became just the fourth player in program history to average 20+ points in a season. The Long Island native ranked No. 23 in the NCAA in scoring, No. 18 in total points, No. 17 in total three-pointers (93) and No. 19 in three-pointers made per game (2.82). She led the Ivy League in all of those categories, as well as three-point percentage (37.8%) and total field goals made (238), also setting a Columbia record for field goals.
One of Weiss's more memorable performances came when she broke Columbia's single-game scoring record in a home win over Dartmouth (Jan. 24). The sharpshooter buried 40, including 26 in the first half alone, to break the previous single-game mark of 39 set by Ellen Bossert '86BC in 1986. Weiss was 15-of-23 from the field and 9-of-13 from deep in that outing, also breaking Columbia's single-game record for field goals made and tying the record for three-pointers made. Then, a few weeks later, she scored 38 in a win at Cornell (Feb. 7), once again tying the three-point record by going 9-of-12 from the outside.
Page earns her first All-Met honors on the heels of a senior season that saw her average 14.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.5 steals, 2.2 assists and shoot an Ivy League-leading 54 percent from the field – she and UConn's Sarah Strong were the only two players in the NCAA to put up those numbers this season. The senior from Pittsburgh set a new Columbia single-season record with 82 steals, ranked top 50 in the NCAA in both steals and steals per game, ranked No. 32 nationally in field goal percentage and ranked second in the Ivy League in total points (480). Page's 480 points are also 10th in Columbia's single-season record book.
Page was named Ivy League Player of the Week on January 12 following a 24-point, 12-rebound, five-steal performance in a 58-55 victory at Harvard. She broke a 55-all tie by scoring the game-winner with 1.9 seconds left. Page was also twice named the MBWA Women's Div. I Player of the Week, the other coming after her game-winner with 0.7 seconds left to beat Seton Hall.
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Weiss is the third player in program history to earn the MBWA's highest honor, joining Abbey Hsu (2023-24) and Camille Zimmerman (2016-17). All three of Columbia's MBWA Players of the Year have come in the Megan Griffith head-coaching era. The MBWA's women's awards first began in 1996.
The 2025-26 All-Met teams will be honored at the 93rd MBWA Haggerty Awards dinner on Thursday, April 23, at the Sleepy Hollow Hotel & Conference Center in Tarrytown, NY. The Haggerty dinner, which also will be live streamed, is the longest-running, media-managed college basketball awards program in the United States. Click here to access the live stream of Thursday night's dinner.
The MBWA Award is the latest of a slew of honors for Weiss. Her 2025-26 accolades include All-America Honorable Mentions by the Associated Press and Women's Basketball Coaches Association, being named Ivy League Player of the Year, and being unanimously voted First Team All-Ivy League. She also earned Most Outstanding Player for the 2026 WBIT, averaging north of 21 points, shooting 47 percent from the field and 43.3 percent (13-30) from three-point range to lead the Lions to the title. Columbia is the first Ivy League women's basketball program to win a major postseason tournament, and the first on the men's or women's side since the Princeton men's team won the 1975 NIT.
Weiss had a stellar junior campaign, setting a Columbia single-season record with 662 points and averaging 20.1 points per game. In doing so, she became just the fourth player in program history to average 20+ points in a season. The Long Island native ranked No. 23 in the NCAA in scoring, No. 18 in total points, No. 17 in total three-pointers (93) and No. 19 in three-pointers made per game (2.82). She led the Ivy League in all of those categories, as well as three-point percentage (37.8%) and total field goals made (238), also setting a Columbia record for field goals.
One of Weiss's more memorable performances came when she broke Columbia's single-game scoring record in a home win over Dartmouth (Jan. 24). The sharpshooter buried 40, including 26 in the first half alone, to break the previous single-game mark of 39 set by Ellen Bossert '86BC in 1986. Weiss was 15-of-23 from the field and 9-of-13 from deep in that outing, also breaking Columbia's single-game record for field goals made and tying the record for three-pointers made. Then, a few weeks later, she scored 38 in a win at Cornell (Feb. 7), once again tying the three-point record by going 9-of-12 from the outside.
Page earns her first All-Met honors on the heels of a senior season that saw her average 14.5 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.5 steals, 2.2 assists and shoot an Ivy League-leading 54 percent from the field – she and UConn's Sarah Strong were the only two players in the NCAA to put up those numbers this season. The senior from Pittsburgh set a new Columbia single-season record with 82 steals, ranked top 50 in the NCAA in both steals and steals per game, ranked No. 32 nationally in field goal percentage and ranked second in the Ivy League in total points (480). Page's 480 points are also 10th in Columbia's single-season record book.
Page was named Ivy League Player of the Week on January 12 following a 24-point, 12-rebound, five-steal performance in a 58-55 victory at Harvard. She broke a 55-all tie by scoring the game-winner with 1.9 seconds left. Page was also twice named the MBWA Women's Div. I Player of the Week, the other coming after her game-winner with 0.7 seconds left to beat Seton Hall.
FOLLOW THE LIONS
For the latest on Columbia women's basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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