Mahogany Lester has been added to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore contingent to represent the Hawks at the women's basketball HBCU All-Star Game.

This is the first year for the inclusion of the women's game and the fourth for the men's side. The games feature the top 24 players in women's and men's HBCU basketball who have exhausted all NCAA eligibility from the SWAC, MEAC, CIAA, SIAC, as well as Tennessee State, Hampton and North Carolina A&T State.

A graduate student, Lester joined the program in 2019 and has been a regular starter for the Hawks, starting 102 of 120 games played, including all 61 games the team has played across the last two seasons.

Lester set a career-high for minutes per game with 27.4 this season while hitting 78-of-181 shots at a 43.1% rate and 33-of-92 three pointers at 35.9%. She also pulled down 169 rebounds this season to give her 630 total for her career while hitting a career-high for assists at 45.

For her career, Lester scored 823 points while putting up 242 this season at an average of 7.8. She also recorded 44 steals this season, her third straight with 40-plus, while also blocking 10 shots for 50 in her career.

Lester's selection has her joining UMES guard Zamara Haynes in the all-star game.

The HBCU All-Star Games will coincide with the NCAA Final Four weekend in San Antonio, Texas, and will be held at the Freeman Coliseum on April 6. The men's game will tipoff at noon CT and the women's game will follow at 2:30.