EASTON, Mass. (Aug. 21, 2025) -- Graduate student Molly Lynch and juniors Bella Mallory and Brooke Paquette have been chosen as captains for the 2025-26 Stonehill women's basketball season, head coach Trisha Brown announced this week.

A native of Sea Girt, N.J., Lynch, a guard, is in her second year at Stonehill after serving as a four-year member of the women's basketball program at Rider. Over her career with the Broncs, she appeared in 95 games, starting 12.

Mallory, a center from Mansfield, Conn., played in 18 games for the Skyhawks in 2024-25 and 29 over the course of her career in Easton.

A guard who hails from Hudson, N.H., Paquette earned All-NEC second-team and Most Improved Player honors last year after starting all 33 games and averaging 13.2 points and 4.4 assists per contest. She also shot 83.9 percent from the foul line last season and enters her junior year having started 53 of a possible 63 games in her career.

Stonehill will tip off the 2025-26 season at home against Bridgewater State Monday, Nov. 3.

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