Cardinal O’Hara alumna Maggie Doogan named A-10 Player of the Year for the second year in a row
Doogan highlights the list released Tuesday, which featured standouts from St. Joseph's and La Salle, like Aryss Macktoon (defensive player of the year) and Gabby Casey (most improved player).
Maggie Doogan left Cardinal O’Hara as one of the best players to come out of the Catholic League. Now in her senior year at Richmond, she’s staking her claim as one of the best to play in the Atlantic 10.
For the second year in a row, Doogan was named conference player of the year after leading the Spiders (25-6, 15-3 A-10) to their third straight season with 25-plus wins.
She became just the third player in the school’s history to reach the 2,000-point mark behind nine double-doubles this season. She set an A-10 single-game scoring record with a 48-point night against Davidson on Jan. 10 — the most points in a Division I women’s basketball game this season — and turned in a 35-point effort in Saturday’s win over St. Joseph’s.
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Speaking of the Hawks …
This marked the first time in four seasons that a St. Joe’s player hasn’t been named a first-team all-conference selection. However, Gabby Casey led the Hawks as a second-team selection and was named A-10 Most Improved Player. A three-time conference player of the week, Casey, a junior guard from Quakertown, leads St. Joseph’s with 16 points and 6.4 rebounds per game.
Aleah Snead earned third-team honors as the one-two punch with Casey in the Hawks’ offense. Snead, a junior guard and Penn Charter alumna, led the team in assists with 90 during the regular season and averaged 11.3 points.
St. Joseph’s will open its A-10 tournament campaign as the No. 5 seed and will play the winner between No. 12 Duquesne and No. 13 Virginia Commonwealth in second-round action on Thursday (1:30 p.m., ESPN+).
Macktoon leads La Salle
After a much-improved season, La Salle took home several honors, specifically Aryss Macktoon, who picked up defensive player of the year and second-team all-conference honors and was named to all-defensive team.
Macktoon, a redshirt sophomore guard who was joined on the A-10’s second team by teammate Ashleigh Connor, ranks among the top 10 in the nation in steals per game (3.3), highlighted by eight she had in a 81-70 road win over Lehigh in November. Macktoon broke the Explorers’ single-season steals record in Saturday’s win over Loyola Chicago. Macktoon also averages 15.2 points and leads La Salle in rebounding with 7.3 per game.
Macktoon and Connor, a redshirt junior who leads the team in points (15.6 per game), and assists with 112, guided the Explorers to a No. 6 seed in the A-10 tournament, a big jump from their No. 14 seed in 2024-25.
La Salle awaits the winner between No. 11 St. Louis and No. 14 Fordham in the second-round nightcap on Thursday (7:30 p.m., ESPN+).
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