CLEVELAND – The Mid-American Conference announced the All-MAC Teams and Specialty Award selections for the 2025-26 women’s basketball season today. All awards were voted on by the league's 13 head coaches, with coaches not being able to vote for their own student-athletes.
Central Michigan’s Madi Morson was named the Player of the Year, while RedHawks Head Coach Glenn Box earned Coach of the Year accolades for the first time in his career. Eastern Michigan’s Peyton Hill was tabbed Freshman of the Year, while Bowling Green’s Johnea Donahue (Defensive Player of the Year) and Kent State’s Emory Klatt (Sixth Player of the Year) rounded out this year's specialty award selections.
Box becomes the first Miami MAC Coach of the Year since Maria Fantanarosa captured the award back in 2004. His RedHawks set a school record 25 wins this season and captured its first MAC Regular Season Championship since the 2003-04 campaign. Box's defense ranks first in the MAC in scoring (58.7) and turnover margin (4.94) and he has rebuilt the RedHawks' program. After a 9-20 season to begin his career, the RedHawks posted 19 wins last season. This year, the RedHawks posted a 16-2 MAC record after being picked seventh in the preseason coach's poll.
Morson becomes the fourth player in Mid-American Conference history to be named the league's Player of the Year as a sophomore after earning Freshman of the Year the previous season, the first since Bowling Green's Lauren Prochaska in 2008-09.
An all-time prolific scorer for the Chippewas, Morson became the fastest player in program history to reach 1,000 points in her 56th game wearing Maroon & Gold on Feb. 18, two games ahead of the previous record.
Morson's 581 points so far this season are the most by a Chippewa sophomore in program history, just as her 511 last year set the freshman mark. The Canton, Mich.-native's season already stands ninth all-time at CMU, just eight points away from moving into seventh. She is on pace to be the first Chippewa to average 20 points per game in a season since 2020 MAC Player of the Year Micaela Kelly.
Donahue, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind. (Snider), has played in 27 games this season, starting 26. She is second on the team in scoring, with 11.3 ppg, and also is second on the club with 5.6 rebounds per contest. Donahue leads the Falcons in both assists (4.0 apg) and steals (4.2 spg), with school-record totals/averages in the latter category.
Donahue currently has a BGSU-record 113 steals this season to date, and has had at least four steals in 16 games in 2025-26.
She is averaging 4.19 steals per game, good for third in the nation, and is on pace to shatter the BGSU record (3.07 spg, by Talita Scott in 1993-94).
Donahue leads the MAC in total steals (with 30 more than anyone else in the league), and also paces the conference in steals per game while ranking among the leaders in rebounds (15th), assists (seventh), free-throw pct. (13th), assist/turnover ratio (ninth) and minutes played (15th) as well.
And, Donahue has moved onto the Falcons’ top-20 list for career steals. She currently has 182 steals at BG, tying her for 14th in school history. And, she is on pace to obliterate the school’s career record for steals per game as well as the single-season mark.
Donahue’s total of 113 steals this season is the third-highest single-season total in MAC history.
Coming off a dominant freshman campaign, Hill paced MAC freshmen in points per game with 14.6 (ninth in the MAC), free-throw percentage (81.9%, sixth in the conference), and minutes per game (33.8, seventh in the MAC). She also paced the league's rookies with 22 double-digit scoring games and seven games with 20-plus points. Hill showed efficiency as a freshman, shooting 35.2% from three-point range and 44.7% from the field, the second and fourth-best marks by a MAC freshman, respectively. She also dished 2.1 assists per contest, ranking fourth among MAC rookies.
Hill capped her freshman campaign with 409 points, the sixth most by an EMU freshman in program history. Her 81.9% clip from the free-throw line slots seventh in the program's single-season records. Her 22 double-digit scoring games are the most by a freshman Eagle since Courtnie Lewis also reached the mark in 2017-18, and her seven 20-point outings are the most since Cha Sweeny posted 11 in the 2013-14 season. Averaging 14.6 points per game, she recorded the highest average by an EMU rookie since Lewis posted 15.0 per game in 2017-18.
Hill becomes just the fifth MAC Freshman of the Year in program history and first since Sweeny took home the honor in the 2013-14 season, when she also landed on the conference's second team. The 17th member of the MAC All-Freshmen Team, Hill is the first Eastern rookie to garner the accolade since Olivia Smith in the 2022-23 campaign as she marks the 21st Eagle to collect All-MAC Honorable Mention. She is the first EMU student-athlete to earn the title since Danielle Minnot in 2018-19.
Emory Klatt averaged 6.2 points and 4.5 rebounds per game while shooting 61.4 percent from the field during her first season at Kent State. Klatt recorded three double-doubles to share the team lead. She was named MAC Player of the Week in January after posting a 17-point, 12-rebound double-double against Ohio and then scoring a career-high 29 points while shooting 11-of-12 to set the program’s single-game field goal percentage record (.917).
2025-26 MAC Women’s Basketball All-MAC Teams & Specialty Award Winners
Coach of the Year: Glenn Box, Miami
Player of the Year: Madi Morson, Central Michigan, Guard
Defensive Player of the Year: Johnea Donahue, Bowling Green, Guard
Freshman of the Year: Peyton Hill, Eastern Michigan, Guard
Sixth Player of the Year: Emory Klatt, Kent State, Post
All-MAC First Team
Tessa Towers, Ball State, Post
Bree Salenbien, Ball State, Guard
Madi Morson, Central Michigan, Guard
Yahmani McKayle, UMass, Guard
Amber Tretter, Miami, Forward
All-MAC Second Team
Ayanna-Sarai Darrington, Central Michigan, Forward
Sisi Eleko, Eastern Michigan, Forward
Mya Babbitt, Kent State, Guard
Megan Olbrys, UMass, Forward
Bailey Tabeling, Ohio, Guard
All-MAC Third Team
Paige Kohler, Bowling Green, Guard
Ilse De Vries, Miami, Forward
Tamar Singer, Miami, Guard
Kendall Carruthers, Toledo, Guard
Patricia Anumgba, Toledo, Guard
All-MAC Honorable Mention
Grace Kingery, Ball State, Guard
Johnea Donahue, Bowling Green, Guard
Peyton Hill, Eastern Michigan, Guard
Allie Palmieri, UMass, Guard
Faith Fedd-Robinson, Toledo, Guard
MAC All-Freshman Team
Shaena Brew, Akron, Guard
Aniss Tagayi, Ball State, Guard
Aniya Rowe, Buffalo, Guard
Peyton Hill, Eastern Michigan, Guard
Emilie Sorensen, Northern Illinois, Guard
MAC All-Defensive Team
Aniss Tagayi, Ball State Guard
Johnae Donahue, Bowling Green, Guard
Ayanna Franks, UMass, Guard
Ilse De Vries, Miami, Forward
Tamar Singer, Miami, Guard
