EASTON, Mass. (March 9, 2026) – Two Stonehill women's basketball players earned NEC yearly awards, the conference office announced Monday prior to the beginning of the NEC Tournament.

Junior Brooke Paquette garnered All-NEC First Team honors, while freshman Ella Pelletier was named to the conference All-Rookie Team. 

Paquette is the 28th first-team all-conference performer in program history, dating back to Stonehill's first year in the NE10 in 1981-82. The Skyhawks have now totaled 58 all-league honorees over their 54-year history. Pelletier earns the 10th all-rookie team nod in program history and second at the Division I level. Paquette and Pelletier each played in all 29 games this season, with Paquette starting every contest and Pelletier starting the last 21-straight games. Head Coach Trisha Brown has coached 36 of the 58 all-conference performers, including six all-NEC honorees since joining the conference prior to the 2022-23 season.

Over the course of the season, Paquette was honored as the league's Player of the Week twice and garnered NEC Prime Performer awards 12 times, while Pelletier was the Rookie of the Week on Dec. 22 and an NEC Prime Performer three times.

Paquette, who hails from Hudson, N.H., leads Stonehill in scoring with 15.0 points per contest, good for second in the NEC.  An All-NEC Second-Team honoree and the conference's Most Improved Player a year ago, Paquette, a team captain, has reached double figures in scoring 23 times, including seven occasions with 20 or more points. In Stonehill's win over Chicago State on March 5, she tallied a career-high 29 points, hitting five three-pointers and going 6-of-6 from the foul line. Paquette also hit five three-pointers in the victory over Le Moyne Jan. 31. In conference games, Paquette averaged 16.3 points per contest

In the win at Saint Francis Feb. 26, Paquette, who has hit 59 threes this season, scored the 1,000th point of her career and now has 1,051 points, good for 33rd in program history. In the process, she became the first Stonehill women's basketball player to score all 1,000 points as a Division I student-athlete. She has made 90.2 percent of her foul shots this season (101-of-112), which ranks sixth in the nation. Paquette also recorded a double-double at Stetson Dec. 20, scoring 17 points and grabbing 13 rebounds, a career-high. Paquette ranks fifth in the NEC with 2.86 assists per contest, and she has played all 40 minutes in a game seven times.

Pelletier, a native of South Paris, Maine, paces the Skyhawks with 6.1 rebounds per game, good for eighth in the NEC. Pelletier is third on the team with 9.6 points per game, and she has recorded four double-doubles on the season (Stetson Dec. 20, Central Connecticut State Jan. 24, Mercyhurst Feb. 28 and Chicago State March 5). Pelletier has also handed out 49 assists and is second on the team with 26 three-pointers and 32 steals.

Stonehill, the seventh seed in the NEC Tournament, will take on No. 2 seed Mercyhurst in the NEC Quarterfinals on Monday, March 9 at 6 p.m.

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