RICHMOND, Va. – Graduate guard Gigi Gonzalez is the 2023-24 Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Player of the Year, while graduate Khari Clark and Sherese Pittman have been named to the All-CAA Second Team, the league office has announced this afternoon. 

Also, head coach Ashley Langford has been garnished as the CAA Coach of the Year after leading the Seawolves to an historic 25-3 (16-2 CAA) season and their first-ever CAA Regular Season Championship in program history. 

Gonzalez, a fifth-year student from Florida, was the floor-general for the Seawolves this season. The guard led the conference with her career-best 15.9 points per game and finished second in the league and 39th in the NCAA with a career-high 5.0 assists per game. Also, playing in every game this season, Gonzalez led the team with 30.2 minutes per game and shot 40.7% from the field, which was fourth in the CAA. 

This season, Gonzalez cemented her name in the Stony Brook record book in many different places. She became the 21st player in program history to reach 1,000 points after tallying the historic point at Delaware on Jan. 14, she moved to 9th all-time with 103 made three-pointers, eclipsed the top-10 with 92 games started and ranks second all-time in program history with 418 assists. She ended her regular season by scoring in double-figures and tallying at-least two assists in 26 of 28 games this season and finished with new career-highs in points, assists and rebounds per game this season. 

Clark, who led the CAA with four weekly awards this season, made her presence felt immediately in her first season on the Island. The CAA leader and ranking 9th in the NCAA for field-goal percentage at 61.6%, she earned Player of the Week in her first week for Stony Brook, then earned the honor back-to-back weeks to begin 2024 on Jan. 1 and Jan. 8, and collected her fourth honor on Feb. 5. Also, Clark became the first player in program history to be selected to the Mid-Major Becky Hammon Midseason Award List. 

The graduate student ended her season sixth in the CAA with 14.8 points per game, eighth in rebounding with 7.1 per game, and 10th in the confernce with 1.1 block shots per game. Clark finished her graduate season with seven double-doubles and set new career-marks in three point field goals made (7), free throws made (62), rebounds (198), steals (38), and points (413). 
 
Pittman earned her second All-Conference accolade in her second season on the Island. The forward pushed the Seawolves to the No. 1 seed and was dominating the conference at the end of the season by earning CAA Player of the Week on March 4 and March 11 to close regular slate. In the final six games of the year, Pittman is averaging team-high 20 points and 10.6 rebounds per game, including three double-doubles. 

She finished top-10 in the CAA with 14.5 points per game (10th), 1.1 blocks per game (8th), 80.3 free throw percentage (7th) and 7.3 rebounds per game (6th). The native of Virginia collected three double-doubles this year, including back-to-back 14 rebound performances against Hampton to secure the outright Regular Season Championship and in the regular season finale against William & Mary. 

Coach Langford earned her first conference Coach of the Year honor and the program's first-ever CAA Coach of the Year accolade for the squad's performance in their second year in the league.

She led the second best scoring defense in the NCAA and the nation's sixth best winning percentage in the country. Also, the Stony Brook defense allowed 24.2 three point percentage, which led the CAA and was second in the nation. The Seawolves led the CAA in assists per game (15.6), field goal percentage (44.3), free throw percentage (75.6), rebounds per game (42.9), and scoring margin (17.9) and ranks second in assists/turnover ratio (0.96), defensive rebounds per game (31.2), steals per game (7.7), and three pointers made per game (7.1). 

Stony Brook took home seven CAA weekly honors, an NCAA National honor, multiple MET Player of the Week recognitions, the first-ever Becky Hammon Award List recipient and had her team ranked as high as 7th in the CollegeInsider mid-major poll during the 2023-24 campaign. Earlier in the season, Langford became the fastest coach in program history to reach 50 wins and one of 10 coaches in the country to be selected for the mid-season watch list for the 2024 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award. 

The Seawolves end their season with a 25-3 overall record and 16-2 in the CAA to secure the outright CAA Regular Season Championship. The squad went 13-1 at Island Federal Arena and 12-2 on the road, as they've won their last eight games heading into the CAA Tournament as the No. 1 seed.  Top-seeded Stony Brook will open play in the quarterfinals on Friday, March 15 at 12 p.m. They will face the winner of No. 8 Campbell or No. 9 Elon. 

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