In the annual poll conducted by the 10 NEC head coaches, Sacred Heart's senior forward Hannah Kimmel garnered Player of the Year honors after averaging 17.1 points and 7.7 rebounds this season. 

Joining Kimmel and Nwajei, a Nancy Lieberman Award finalist, on the All-NEC First Team were Leah Fechko of St. Francis Brooklyn, Erika Livermore of Fairleigh Dickinson, and 2015 NEC Player of the Year, Brianna Rucker of Bryant.

The All-NEC Second Team is comprised of Sacred Heart's Alissa Tarsi, Ana Niki Stamolamprou of Robert Morris, Kelsey Cruz of Fairleigh Dickinson, Bryant's Ivory Bailey and Jessica Kovatch of Saint Francis U.

Earning Third-Team All-NEC honors were Shanovia Dove of LIU Brooklyn, Central Connecticut's Camden Musgrave, Alexis Carter of Mount St. Mary's, Bryant's Tiersa Winder and Shanice Vaughn of LIU Brooklyn.

In addition to Kimmel's Player of the Year award, Sacred Heart, the newly-minted regular season NEC champions, picked up two additional major awards as head coach Jessica Mannetti was tabbed Coach of the Year while Tarsi was named Most Improved Player.

Rounding out the award winners were Fechko, who concluded her tenure at St. Francis Brooklyn with Defensive Player of the Year honors, and Kovatch, who was named Rookie of the Year.

The 5-8 Nwajei completed her milestone 2015-16 season with an NEC and school single-season scoring average of 29.0 ppg., including a conference-record 33.6 average in NEC play. For the season, Nwajei poured in an NEC single-season record 841 points, breaking the previous mark of 815 set by Sade Logan of Robert Morris in 2008. 

The first junior in NEC history to break the 2,000-point scoring mark, Nwajei's school-record career point total is up to 2,076 points, which ranks fifth on the NEC all-time list. Nwajei's 37-point outing in the season finale at LIU Brooklyn marked the 15th time this season that she hit the 30-point mark, and the 25th time in her career that she has done so. 

The New York City guard also eclipsed the 40-point mark five times on the year, and the 50-point mark on two occasions, highlighted by a school and NEC-record 53-point effort vs. NEC regular season champion Sacred Heart (1/16) and a 52-point outing in an overtime win at St. Francis Brooklyn (2/1).