Mataly won the first Choice Hotels NEC Rookie of the Week award of December and repeats the feat in first month of the New Year. The freshman averaged 17.7 points and 2.5 steals per contest during her team’s two-game Sewall Center sweep of Central Connecticut and Bryant. The rookie guard was sensational from beyond the arc during Robert Morris’ opening weekend of Northeast Conference play. She sank 9 of 16 attempts (.563) from three-point range over the two-game clip. Mataly hit five triples on her way to a career-high 19 points and four rebounds in the NEC lidlifter against Central Connecticut. The French-born freshman went 7-for-11 shooting in the 65-48 victory. She needed only 19 minutes of floor time to log 16 points, two assists and two steals against Bryant on Monday morning. Mataly sealed the 71-69 victory by going 4-for-4 from the free throw line over the game’s final 00:14.