Jennifer DiChiara has been selected as the 2008-09 East Coast Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year in a poll of the league's head coaches. She is the first Lady Knight to receive such an honor in the program's 22 year history in Division II. Teammate Amanda Bartlett was also named first team all-ECC for the second consecutive season.

DiChiara has been a dynamic force on the hardwood this year, averaging 16.2 points, 12.5 rebounds and 2.8 blocks a game in leading Queens College to a first place finish in the ECC. These numbers rank her at the top of the league in rebounding and blocks (3rd and 5th in the nation respectively), and fourth in scoring. Her most dominating performance of the season came at Concordia College on January 14th when she scored 31 points, pulled down 23 rebounds and blocked seven shots in a 87-67 victory.

Bartlett, who was ECC Rookie of the Year in 2007-08, leads the conference in scoring (18.1 points/game), free throw percentage and three point field goals made per game. She is also eighth in the league in assists. In all, Amanda scored 20 or more points in a game 10 times in 27 games with a high of 29 at Mercy College on February 11th.