​NEWARK, NJ–Recently graduated NJIT women's basketball player Trinity Williams has been nominated for the 2025 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Woman of the Year award.

Williams, the 2025 America East Conference Woman of the Year nominee, graduated Magna Cum Laude with her undergraduate degree in Cyberpsychology and a minor in Business in December 2024, holding a 3.79 GPA. The 2025 America East All-Academic team earned her master's degree in Management. She is a two-time CSC Academic All-District selection and has been named to the Dean's List seven times.

The 6-foot-1 forward was selected to the America East All-Defensive team after leading the conference in blocks per game (1.6) for the second straight season. The veteran post player ranked fourth in the America East in field goal percentage (52.2%), 10th in rebounds per game (5.3) and 10th in points per game (9.9). She finished her career with 849 points, 523 rebounds, and 141 blocks.

Williams was selected as the senior student speaker at the NJIT Annual Athletics Awards Banquet and served as the women's basketball representative in SAAC for two years. She did a Diversity, Inclusion, and Talent Management internship and worked as a Desk Attendant at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center for two years. The Upper Black Eddy, PA native was part of the America East student-athlete focus group for rebranding during the 2022-23 academic year.

She engaged in over 15 hours of community service with several organizations, including the Community Food Bank of NJ, the media relations department at NJIT Athletics, the Welcome Back to School Crew at Michelle Obama Elementary School, and reading to Pre-K classes at Sarah Ward Nursery School.

The NCAA Woman of the Year program was established in 1991 and honors the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service and leadership of graduating female college athletes from all three divisions.  To be eligible, a nominee must have competed and earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport and must have earned her undergraduate degree by Summer 2025.

Eligible female student-athletes are nominated by their member school.  Each conference office then reviews the nominations from its core member schools (and sponsored sports) and submits its conference nominee(s) to the NCAA. All nominees who compete in a sport that is not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be sent to a separate pool to be considered by a committee.  Then, the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee identifies the Top 30 – 10 from each division – and from there selects three finalists from each division.  From the nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then selects the 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year, who is named during the 2026 NCAA Convention.