ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Entering the 2022-23 season as the youngest team in the nation, Siena Women's Basketball took home the ultimate prize of youth during Wednesday's MAAC Basketball Major Awards Announcement during the 2023 MAAC Championships at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Freshman standout Elisa Mevius was named the 2022-23 MAAC Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Siena player since 2015 and the sixth overall to earn the prestigious honor. The Grunberg, Germany native took home the accolade after being named a Third Team All-MAAC and MAAC All-Rookie Team selection during Monday's MAAC Postseason Awards announcement.
Just the third freshman and first since the 2014-15 campaign to earn a Third Team nod, Mevius enters the postseason with the most single-season assists (121) by an individual since that year. The team's third-leading scorer with 10.5 points per-game during the regular season, she wrapped the year as the league leader in free throw percentage (81.7) while ranking fourth in total assists (121), assist per-game (4.0), and total steals (68).
 A four-time MAAC Rookie of the Week honoree and the only freshman in MAAC history to have won both Rookie and Player of the Week in the same day, she scored in double figures 16 times during the regular season, including a team single-game high of 26 points on Feb. 11 against Niagara – a game while featured a 55-foot buzzer beater now known as the "Mevius Miracle". The Grunberg, Germany native also came one assist off tying the program single-game record with 14 in the Saints' win over Marist on Jan. 7.
Mevius joins Margot Hetzke (2015), Laura Menty (2005), Liene Jansone (2001), Melanie Halker (1996), and Liz Lops (1991) as Siena's MAAC Rookie of the Year honorees to-day. Three of the five went on to win MAAC Player of the Year at least once in their career, while the latter four are all members of the Siena Athletic Hall of Fame.
Siena's postseason journey will begin as the No. 4 seed in the 2023 MAAC Women's Basketball Championships on Thursday, March 9 when it battles No. 5 Fairfield at 3:30 PM.
