EDISON, N.J. – For the third time in her career,
Kaysie Stuba has earned All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference honors and was one of 11 Wildcats to garner All-Academic Team laurels, as announced by the league on Friday morning.
This is the first time that Stuba has made it on the first team list in her career. She was a second-team selection after both the 2019 and 2021 seasons. Throughout the year, she was named the MAAC Offensive Player of the Week twice, moving her career total for weekly awards to four.
Stuba's first-team honor is the 14
th for the program since 2003 and the 30
th All-MAAC honor for the program, overall. She is one of six Wildcats to earn multiple All-MAAC honors in her career and the sixth to land the conference honor at least three times.
The La Grange, Ill.-native was a powerhouse for a Villanova offense that put up program-record numbers in the 2022 campaign. She led the team with 100 goals on 217 shots, adding on 51 assists for 151 points, all going down as team-highs. She is the program's leader for single-season goals, points and shots while sitting at fourth for assists and field blocks (13) and sixth for exclusions drawn (65).
From a career standpoint, Stuba finishes her time at Villanova in the top-five of four statistical categories. She is second in points (377), third in goals (259) and shots (579) and fourth in assists (118). Her 125 exclusions drawn sit at sixth overall.
Stuba joined 10 of her teammates on the All-Academic list.
Sydney Bianchi,
Stella Byles,
Hanna Cloeter,
Kimora Farry,
Allie Hansen,
Isabel Herbst,
Jane Montague,
Tiane Parris,
Lauren Picard and
Amanda Rice were all announced to the team. A total of 90 student-athletes were named to the team. To be eligible for the MAAC All-Academic Team, a student-athletes must complete two semesters at their institution and hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a 4.0 scale. Villanova tied for the fourth-most student-athletes on the list with 11.