COLONIA, N.J. – Two East Coast Conference (ECC) women’s basketball student-athletes were named to the 2025-26 Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-East Region team on Thursday morning.
The team was selected by the 30 eligible institutions (30 schools and three conference offices) in the region.

Mercy University junior forward Grace Lesko was named to the first team, while Molloy University senior forward Colleen McCullagh was named to the second team.

Lesko becomes the first Maverick in program history to receive All-Region honors from the D2CCA. The ECC Player of the Year and First Team All-ECC selection has helped lead Mercy to a 22-7 record and their second NCAA Tournament appearance in three years. The forward was named to the ECC Championship All-Tournament Team. The five-time ECC Player of the Week started all 29 games and averaged a team-high 18.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game on 44.8 percent shooting. The junior ranked second in the ECC in points per game, 11th in rebounds per game, and seventh in assists per game. Lesko scored in double figures in all but one game this season and had six double-doubles. She had a career-high-tying 30 points against Bentley (Nov. 15) and St. Thomas Aquinas (Jan. 31, Feb. 28). Lesko had 11 games with 20 or more points and was named ECC Defensive Player of the Week once. The junior also shot 83.6 percent from the foul line, making an ECC-high 133 free throws on the year.

Senior Colleen McCullagh was named All-ECC First Team following a stellar senior campaign with the Lions. The recognition marks the forward's first-ever All-Conference nod. This season, she led Molloy in scoring at 19.3 points per game, a mark that also topped all scorers in the ECC by a full point per game. McCullagh shot at nearly 50 percent from the field in the regular season, reaching double digits in 27 of 30 games she appeared in, including a stretch of nine in a row of over 20 points. Effective across the court, the senior also totaled six double-doubles, including pulling down a career-high 16 rebounds against Queens (Jan. 10), where she added 22 points. Twice this season she reached the 30-point mark, both contests going down as double-doubles: 30 points at D'Youville (Dec. 5) with 11 rebounds and 30 points with 14 rebounds against Roberts Wesleyan (Dec. 12). McCullagh enters the postseason ranked sixth in Division II in field goal attempts, seventh in made field goals, 12th in minutes per game, 16th in total points, and 20th in points per game.  A one-time Player of the Week, one-time Defensive Player of the Week, and five-time member of the Weekly Honor Roll, McCullagh was recognized for her performance on the court in seven of the 15 weeks of the regular season.