Hall of Fame
Latrese McNair '07 | Women's Basketball (2003–07)
Latrese McNair is widely regarded as one of the finest point guards in NJCU history — and the statistical record supports that claim emphatically. A dominant force in the New Jersey Athletic Conference throughout her career, McNair earned First-Team All-NJAC honors in both 2005-06 and 2006-07, was named NJAC Most Valuable Player in the second annual NJAC-Skyline Women's Basketball Senior Game, and was selected to the D3Hoops.com First-Team All-Atlantic Region in 2006-07 after earning second-team recognition the year prior. She was also a two-time Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Women's Basketball Second Team honoree and a two-time Metropolitan Division II/III Basketball Writers (NIT/MBWA) Second Team selection. A four-time D3Hoops.com National Team of the Week honoree, McNair also earned three NJAC Player of the Week citations, three ECAC Division III Metro Player of the Week nods, and three PrestoSports/MBWA Honor Roll selections during her four seasons in Jersey City. She began her career by earning WIAC Rookie of the Year and Second-Team All-WIAC honors as a freshman in 2003-04.
McNair departed NJCU having rewritten virtually every meaningful defensive and playmaking record in program history. She finished her career as a two-time national leader in steals per game (2005 and 2006), ranking fifth in Division III history with 461 career steals — a total that stands 194 more than any other player in school history — and 13th all-time across all three NCAA divisions. Her 1,247 career points rank fourth in program history, making her the eighth member of NJCU's 1,000-point club, and she reached the 20-point mark 13 times in her career, twice eclipsing 30 points in the same season and same month — a feat not accomplished at NJCU since Monique Hemingway in 1988-89. McNair is NJCU's all-time leader in minutes played across all genders (3,176), women's all-time leader in steals per game (4.66) and games started (85), second in total games played (99), fourth in assists (366) and tied for fourth with 83 three-pointers converted. Few players in Gothic Knight history have left as indelible a mark on the program.
