Columbia University women’s basketball guard Riley Weiss has received both regional and national recognition for her recent performances. On Tuesday, Weiss was named an Honorable Mention Player of the Week by the Associated Press and earned the Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Women’s Division I Player of the Week honor for the second consecutive week.
This marks Weiss’s third career Honorable Mention from the Associated Press and her fifth MBWA weekly award. The accolades follow her selection as Ivy League Player of the Week on Monday, a title she has now claimed five times this season—a league high.
Weiss, a junior from Long Island, averaged 22 points, three rebounds, 1.5 steals, and one assist during Columbia’s two victories last week against No. 24 Princeton and Penn. She shot 47.1 percent from the field and 41.2 percent from beyond the arc while making all five free throw attempts.
In Friday’s game against Princeton, Weiss scored 23 points as Columbia overcame a six-point halftime deficit to win 70-56. She contributed 20 points in the second half alone, going seven-for-nine from the field and three-for-three on three-pointers over that span. The Lions outscored Princeton by 20 in the final two quarters to complete a regular-season sweep of their Ivy League rival for a second straight year.
Less than a day later, Weiss added 21 points with four rebounds in Columbia’s 69-56 victory over Penn. She helped lead an early surge that put Columbia ahead by twenty points in the first quarter; Penn narrowed the gap but never got closer than eight.
Weiss currently leads all Ivy League players with an average of 19.7 points per game and is among the NCAA’s top scorers as well as leaders in three-pointers made per game at nearly three per contest. She recently moved into eighth place on Columbia’s all-time scoring list with 1,219 career points and became only the eighteenth player in Ivy League history to make at least two hundred career three-pointers.
Her five Ivy League Player of the Week awards are more than any Lion since Abbey Hsu set a program record with seven selections during her senior season in 2023-24. Weiss joins Hsu, Camille Zimmerman (2016-17), and Judie Lomax (2009-10) as one of four players in program history to earn at least five such honors in a single season.
Columbia (17-6 overall; 8-2 Ivy) will play its next game against Dartmouth (10-13 overall; 1-9 Ivy) on Saturday at Leede Arena in Hanover, New Hampshire.
“FOLLOW THE LIONS For the latest on Columbia women’s basketball, follow @CULionsWBB on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, or on the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.”
