ALEXANDRIA,VA – Russell Sage College's women's basketball sophomore guard Syrita Faraj (Troy, NY/Tamarac) continues to add to her impressive resume. On Tuesday, she was named to the D3Hoops.com First Team All-Region Team.

Faraj, who was also named to the Empire 8 First Team after also earning acclaim as the league's 2022-2023 Women's Basketball Player of the Year, was also selected to the Empire 8 Women's Basketball All-Tournament Team. Over the course of the season, she helped to lead the Gators to the Empire 8 Semifinals and finished the year with a school-record 524 points scored. She also broke the Gators' single-season points per game average with a 20.2 ppg average. Faraj, the 2021-22 E8 Rookie of the Year, eclipsed 500 career points on Dec. 29 vs. Rhode Island College and now has 896 career points in just two seasons with the program.

She scored 32 points, the fifth-most in a game by any RSC player, twice this season (1/28, 2/4) and added 224 rebounds with 46 assists, and 50 steals in 26 games played and started this year.  She shot 46.7% from the floor (140-182), while also converting 76.9% of her free throws (140-182) and averaged 28.7 minutes a game as well.

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The 2022-23 D3hoops.com All-Region teams have been announced.

Players were nominated for these awards by the Sports Information Directors at the various schools, and schools and conferences were each contacted multiple times as the season wound down to remind them to make their players eligible. There were 798 players nominated nationwide. The ballot was then made available to SIDs, who voted for a predetermined number of players in their region. 

It's the 22nd season D3hoops.com has named All-Region teams.

The regional Rookie of the Year award honors the top freshman in each region, while D3hoops.com also names a regional Coach of the Year.

Division III basketball is organized into 10 regions. A region with 40 teams or more has three All-Region teams honored, while a region with fewer than 40 teams has a first and second team. This reorganization results in approximately 10 additional players being recognized when compared to previous full seasons.

Players from these lists are eligible for the D3hoops.com All-America teams. The men's team will be released March 18, at the national championship game, and the women's team will be released at a predetermined time between the national semifinals on March 18 and the title game on April 1.

Players were nominated for these awards by the Sports Information Directors at the various schools.

Player of the Year: Katie Titus, F, Rochester

Coach of the Year: Melissa Turner, Skidmore

Rookie of the Year: Brielle Reidinger, F, Nazareth

First team                   

Pos.     Player School            Yr.       Hometown

G         Emily Dorn       Ithaca   Sr.        Laurel, Md.

G         Syrita Faraj      Sage    So.       Troy, N.Y.

G         Brianna Fitzgerald       SUNY New Paltz           Jr.        Dix Hills, N.Y.

F          Katie Titus       Rochester        Sr.        Penfield, N.Y.

C          Lauren Hunter Merchant Marine          Sr.        Tinley Park, Ill.

Second team             

G         Cassidy Dumont          Clarkson          So.       Norway, Maine

G         Sidney Tomasso          St. John Fisher            So.       Waverly, N.Y.

F          Julianna Kascic            Manhattanville Sr.        North Bergen, N.J.

F          Nyia Longford  Cortland           Sr.        Medford, N.Y.

F          Kaitlyn Walker  St. John Fisher            Sr.        Camillus, N.Y.