Chelmsford, Massachusetts, fifth-year guard is program's first All-NEC honoree to cap inaugural Division I season with second career All-Conference pick
EASTON, Mass. (March 6, 2023) – Stonehill College fifth-year guard Emily Bramanti has capped her collegiate career as the women's basketball program's first All-Northeast Conference selection in its inaugural NCAA Division I season with a spot on the first team as selected by the NEC's nine head coaches the Conference announced this afternoon.
Bramanti, an All-Northeast-10 Conference second team selection last year, is the 25th first team All-Conference honoree in the history of the Stonehill women's basketball program and the 53rd All-Conference performer in program history, overall, dating back to Stonehill's first year in the NE10 in 1981-82. It marks the third-straight season Stonehill has had a first team All-Conference performer, with former teammate Kayla Raymond, '22 a two-time first team pick in 2020 and 2022. Bramanti was a two-time NEC Player of the Week in the Skyhawks first NEC season and was named an NEC Prime Performer a team-high ten weeks.
Bramanti, who earned Academic All-District® honors from the College Sports Communicators and named to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) 20th "So You Want To Be A Coach" class, shined in Stonehill's first Division I season. She started all 29 games for the Skyhawks and ranks among Conference leaders in eight categories, ranking fourth in scoring with her team-high 14.9 points per game, leading the NEC with 2.4 three-point field goals per game and ranking fourth in three-point percentage (.367), fifth in assists per game (3.0) and assist/turnover ratio (1.33), sixth in free-throw percentage (.742) and 13th in field goal percentage (.404), while ranking second in minutes played with 34.7 minutes per game – an average that ranks sixth all-time in a single-season in program history. Her NEC-high 69 three-point field goals are ranked ninth on the program's all-time single-season list.
Bramanti is the SKyhawks first All-NEC pick with first team honors to earn All-Conference honors for the second-straight year (PHOTO BY Bob Blanchard) |
Bramanti led Stonehill in scoring 15 times this season with 22 double-figure scoring outings, including 20-plus points in a team-high seven games, scoring a career-high and NEC season-best 38 points in the Skyhawks 81-74 win at Bryant University on December 11 – finishing just a point shy of the program's single-game record. She notched a double-double (third career) with 21 points and a season-high ten rebounds in a win over Long Island University on January 21, having led Stonehill in rebounding twice and assists in 13 games with a career-high matching eight helpers against Merrimack College on February 9.
Bramanti became the 35th player in Stonehill women's basketball history to surpass the 1,000-point mark against St. Francis College of Brooklyn on February 4. She finished her career ranked 31st all-time at Stonehill with her 1,084 points and eighth in program history with 156 three-pointers, having also totaled 344 rebounds, 314 assists and 108 steals in 109 career games played. Bramanti was ranked as the No. 6 Division I women's basketball player in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe in December.
Stonehill closed out its inaugural NCAA Division I season with a 9-20 record overall, including 5-11 in its first NEC season to finish seventh in the Conference's regular season standings after being picked ninth by the league's head coaches in the NEC preseason poll. The Skyhawks notched a win in their NEC debut at Central Connecticut State University (73-66) on January 2 and completed a regular season series sweep of the Blue Devils – its first as an NEC member. Stonehill also logged non-conference wins at New Hampshire and Bryant as well as Hartford and NEC wins against LIU, St. Francis Brooklyn and Wagner, finishing the year winners of three of their last five.
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