GORHAM, Maine  --  Former Little East Conference baseball Player of the Year and ABCA Division III All-American outfielder Mike McCullum has been selected for induction into the LEC Hall of Fame for the Class of 2020.  McCullum becomes the first University of Southern Maine baseball player to be picked the LEC Hall of Fame.

In addition to McCullum's selection, the LEC announced that former two-time LEC women's basketball Player of the Year Allison Gagnon Gray and the Huskies 1997 national championship baseball team will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020.  The '97 baseball team is the first team to be inducted into the Hall of Fame as the conference expanded its selection process this year to honor teams for the first time.  The LEC also recently announced its 2021 Hall of Fame Class and it includes former women's basketball standout and three-time All-Little East Conference center Katrina Pulkkinen-Hoass. 

Established in 2012, the LEC Hall of Fame now includes 93 individuals and two teams with the inclusion of the Class of 2020 and 2021.  Plans to celebrate the inductions of McCullum, Gagnon Gray, Pulkkinen-Hoaas and the '97 baseball team will be announced at a future date.

McCullum was a four-year starting center fielder for the Huskies baseball team from 1996-1999, helping lead the Huskies to two of the first three Little East Conference (LEC) baseball championships and the 1997 NCAA Division III national title.

McCullum's most decorated season was his final one, which saw him named the LEC Player of the Year and an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Third Team All-American after he batted .362 with 71 hits, 70 RBI and 54 runs scores. The first team All-LEC and All-New England selection slugged .536 that season with 11 doubles, four triples and five home runs, while posting a .950 fielding percentage in his 119 total chances and stealing 30 bases in 35 tries. The 1999 season saw the Huskies win 36 games on their way to the LEC tournament title and the NCAA Division III regional final.

The Portland, Maine, native started in all but one of USM's 48 games in 1997, which saw the Huskies claim the inaugural LEC tournament crown on their way to winning the 1997 NCAA Division III national championship, capping their season with a 15-1 triumph over Wooster to win the program's second national title. McCullum batted .333 that season with 61 hits, 41 runs scored, 27 RBI, 22 stolen bases and a perfect fielding percentage.

McCullum batted .338 over his four seasons at Southern Maine, and concluded his collegiate career as the program's all-time leader in plate appearances (678) while ranking second in games played (178) and stolen bases (74), third in runs scored (163), fourth in hits (229) and RBI (159) and fifth in total bases (317). His 70 RBI in 1999 stood as the program record until 2009, while his nine sacrifice flies that year were the most in program history until 2017.

McCullum earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Southern Maine in 2005.  He was inducted into USM's Husky Hall of Fame in 2010.