Monmouth University Women's Basketball

Cait Wetmore, Head Coach of the Monmouth University Women’s Basketball Team, announced the addition of Aja Boyd as an assistant coach on May 14, 2024. Boyd came to West Long Branch from UNC Charlotte, where she served as the Director of Player Development. In his first season at Monmouth, Boyd was part of a staff that helped the Hawks to 16 wins and 10 at home, finishing fifth in the CAA. Boyd, working with the post players, helped Taisha Exanor to All-CAA Second Team honors, with Exanor ranking second in the CAA in rebounding and in the top-10 in field goal percentage. Additionally, Belle Kranbuhl ranked third in the conference in blocks, finishing her career with the second most blocks in school history thanks to 60 rejections in her final season. Boyd was a factor in a breakout season for Divine Dibula, who played in all 31 games and ranked third on the team in scoring and fourth in rebounding while shooting 57.4% from the field. Junior Ella Farrelly was also a major piece for MU in 2024-25, placing second on the Hawks with seven rebounds per contest and shooting 52.3% from the floor.    Boyd was promoted from graduate assistant to Director of Player Development in June 2023 and helped lead the 49ers to 28 wins across two seasons. Alongside Wetmore, Boyd played a key role in game planning and preparation, as well as assisting with recruiting, community outreach, and team branding during the program’s transition from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference last year. UNC Charlotte won nine conference games in its first season in the AAC and added a 69-58 victory at high-major Wake Forest on December 7. Boyd played under Wetmore at UNC Greensboro where she was a team captain selected to the SoCon Second Team and named the conference’s Ann Lashley Inspiration Award recipient in 2022. Under Wetmore’s guidance, Boyd finished second on the team in scoring (9.6 points per game) and rebounding (6.6 per game), where she shined as the conference’s third-best offensive rebounder at 2.9 per contest. She began her career at LIU Brooklyn, where she was named to the All-NEC Rookie Team in 2016-17.   A Petersburg, Va. native, Boyd earned her bachelor’s degree in English in 2020 and finished a master’s degree in Applied Arts and Sciences at UNC Greensboro in 2022.  

Nijeria Carter joined the Monmouth women's basketball staff in the fall of 2023 as the Director of Program Operations, and re-joined the program in October 2025 on Cait Wetmore's staff as the Director of Basketbll Operations. Carter assists in all aspects of program day-to-day operations, including travel, practice and academics.   Carter brings a wealth of basketball experience to the Hawks’ program after working on both the professional and collegiate levels.    Carter joined the Hawks from the National Basketball Association (NBA) office where she served as a production assistant since September of 2018. In that role, she managed the 2022 WNBA Finals press conference operations. She helped execute footage requests for NBA content and helped coordinate social media graphic designs. Carter also helped produce and improve the output of the NBA’s continuous broadcast feed for League Pass, the WNBA’s Facebook games and the NBA Spanish and BetStream Feeds.   Prior to her work with the NBA, Carter worked as the director of basketball operations at Wagner College for two years. She was responsible for producing scouting reports, distributing game film and filming practices and games using the various film systems. Carter managed team travel, schedules, meals and overseeing managers and practice players. She organized and ran camps and assisted with social media.    Carter earned her bachelors degree in sport management from Georgia Southern in December of 2015. While she was an undergraduate she served as an assistant camp director for women’s and men’s basketball and also served as the women’s basketball team’s head manager.   Carter earned a master of business administration in media management in 2018.   She also served as the basketball operations intern for the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA while she was an undergrad. In that role she managed the ball kid program, created scouting programs and more.