PRINCETON, N.J. — Both Ivy League regular season champions earned major awards with Princeton's Kaitlyn Chen taking the Player of the Year award and Columbia's Megan Griffith earning Coach of the Year honors. The Tigers earned two additional major award selections, Rookie of the Year Madison St. Rose and Co-Defensive Player of the Year Ellie Mitchell. Mitchell shares the Defensive Player of the Year award with Yale's Nyla McGill.
 
Chen, a junior, was the only player in the Ivy League this season to rank in the top-five in both scoring and assists, averaging 15.4 points per game and 4.2 assists per game. She was one of the most efficient players in the conference, ranking tied for second in the Ivy League with a 1.5 assist to turnover ratio and fifth with a 48.9 shooting percentage. Chen scored in double-figures in all but four games this season, including ending the season with nine-straight such games.
 
St. Rose, a three-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week winner, earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year after averaging 9.4 points and 2.5 rebounds on the season. Inserted into the starting lineup in early December, St. Rose ended up playing 23.5 minutes per game on the year. In the second half of the season, she had a stretch with at least 10 points in 9-of-10 games. St. Rose also averaged nearly 1 steal per game.
 
Mitchell won at least a share of the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year for a second-straight season after claiming the honor outright in the 2021-22 season. The junior was dominant on the glass for the Tigers, pulling down a league-high 10.8 rebounds per game, the only player to average over 10 rebounds per game. She also was fourth in the Ivy League with 2.5 steals per game.
 
Also earning Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors was McGill of Yale. She was second in the conference in rebounds per game at 8.9 and tied for second in steals per game at 2.6. She had a season-high seven steals in a win over Cornell.
 
Griffith receives the first Ivy League Coach of the Year honor during her seven-year tenure on the bench of her alma mater. She led Columbia to its second-straight 20-win season, sitting at 23-4 entering Ivy Madness, and a second-straight 12-2 finish in Ivy League competition. The 12-2 mark earned the Lions a share of the 2022-23 Ivy League Regular Season Championship, the first such title in program history.
 
All five players selected to the All-Ivy First Team were unanimous selections. Chen is joined by Kaitlyn Davis and Abbey Hsu of Columbia, Kayla Padilla of Penn, and Harvard's Harmoni Turner. Davis had an all-around strong year, averaging 12.8 points, 8.4 rebounds, and 3.6 assists per game. She ranked top-10 in several categories, finding herself among the best in the Ivy League in points, rebounds, assists, blocks, and field goal percentage. Hsu was the Ivy League’s top scorer on the year, averaging 17.9 points per game while also topping all players in three-pointers made per game (3.4) and three-point shooting percentage (41.3%). Padilla rarely left the floor for Penn, playing over 35 minutes per game, tops in the Ivy League, while posting a second-best 17.5 points per game. She also ranked seventh with 3.5 assists per game and was nearly as lethal a shooter, hitting 2.9 threes per game (second-most in the Ivy League) at a 39.1 percent clip (fourth) while being the conference’s best free throw shooter at 84.9 percent. Turner, the 2021-22 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, joins the All-Ivy First Team after a season in which she did a bit of everything for Harvard. The sophomore was fourth in the conference in scoring at 16.2 points per game, ninth in rebounding with 5.7 per game, fourth with 3.9 assists per game, third with 2.6 steals per game, and second in free throw percentage at 84.4 percent.
 
The All-Ivy Second Team was expanded to six players due to ties in the voting, with five schools represented in the six spots. Princeton’s Julia Cunningham and Grace Stone, both seniors, made the All-Ivy Second Team. Cunningham was a first team selection last year while Stone was on the honorable mention list. Joining the Princeton duo was Jaida Patrick of Columbia, Lola Mullaney of Harvard, Jordan Obi of Penn, and Jenna Clark of Yale. Obi and Clark were each Second Team All-Ivy a season ago while Mullaney was an honorable mention.
 
Additionally, one student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment in the classroom and on the court as members of the 2022-23 Ivy League Women's Basketball Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s Kyla Jones, Columbia's Carly Rivera, Cornell’s Kaya Ingram, Dartmouth's Emma Koch, Harvard’s Maggie McCarthy, Penn's Kayla Padilla, Princeton’s Grace Stone and Yale's Klara Astrom were each named to the team.
 
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kaitlyn Chen, Princeton (Jr. — San Marino, Calif.)
 
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Madison St. Rose, Princeton (Fr. — Old Bridge, N.J.)
 
CO-DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Ellie Mitchell, Princeton (Jr. — Chevy Chase, Md.)
 
CO-DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Nyla McGill, Yale (So. — Charlotte, N.C.)
 
COACH OF THE YEAR
Megan Griffith, Columbia
 
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
*Kaitlyn Davis, Columbia (Sr. — Norwalk, Conn.)
*Abbey Hsu, Columbia (Jr. — Parkland, Fla.)
*Harmoni Turner, Harvard (So. — Mansfield, Texas)
*Kayla Padilla, Penn (Sr. — Torrance, Calif.)
*Kaitlyn Chen, Princeton (Jr. — San Marino, Calif.)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Jaida Patrick, Columbia (Sr. — West Haverstraw, N.Y.)
Lola Mullaney, Harvard (Jr. — Rumson, N.J.)
Jordan Obi, Penn (Jr. — Cupertino, Calif.)
Julia Cunningham, Princeton (Sr. — Watchung, N.J.)
Grace Stone, Princeton (Sr. — Glen Cove, N.Y.)
^Jenna Clark, Yale (Jr. — Pittsburgh, Pa.)

HONORABLE MENTION
Grace Arnolie, Brown (Fr. — Vienna, Va.)
Kitty Henderson, Columbia (So. — North Curl Curl, Australia)
Elena Rodriguez, Harvard (So. — Aguimes, Spain)

* Unanimous selection
^ Team expanded due to ties in voting