The 2025–26 Green Bay Phoenix women's basketball team represented the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Phoenix, led by second-year head coach Kayla Karius, played their home games at the Kress Events Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin as members of the Horizon League.
Previous season The Phoenix finished the 2024–25 season 29–6, 19–1 in Horizon League play, winning the conference's regular season title. Seniors Natalie McNeal and Maddy Schreiber earned first team All-Conference honors, whereas forward Jasmine Kondrakiewicz was tabbed to the All-Defensive team with guard Bailey Butler awarded conference defensive player of the year.
En route to winning the Horizon League tournament championship, they defeated Oakland, Robert Morris, and two-seed Purdue Fort Wayne, all a part of a 22-game winning steak and earning conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, their second consecutive appearance and the first for head coach Kayla Karius.
They received the #12 seed in the Birmingham Regional 2, where they would fall to #5 seed Alabama in the first round.
Offseason
Departures Departures 1 G 5'11" Luxemburg, Wisconsin Graduated 3 G 5'8" Silver Lake, Minnesota Graduated 11 G 5'8" Germantown, Wisconsin Graduated 12 G 6'0" Wrightstown, Wisconsin Graduated 21 F 6'1" Milwaukee, Wisconsin Graduated 22 G 5'7" Black Hawk, Wisconsin Graduated 34 G/F 6'0" Appleton, Wisconsin Graduated
Incoming transfers Green Bay incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Previous school Carley Duffney 20 G 5'10" RS Senior Green Bay, WI South Dakota Gracie Grzesk 22 F 5'11" Sophomore Green Bay, WI Wisconsin Maddy Skorupski 3 G 5'8" Senior Clarkston, MI Oakland Lily Hansford 2 G 6'2" Senior Green Bay, WI Iowa State Kamy Peppler 1 G 5'7" Senior Hortonville, WI Milwaukee Kallie Peppler 21 G 6'0" Sophomore Hortonville, WI Milwaukee
2025 recruiting class
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Preseason On October 9, 2025, the Horizon League released their preseason poll and league teams. Green Bay was picked to finish first in the conference, while receiving eight first-place votes. One player was named to the preseason All-Horizon League First Team, and another two players were named to the Second Team.
Preseason rankings + Horizon League Preseason Coaches Poll Place Team Votes 1 117 (8) 2 97 (1) 3 92 (1) 4 87 (1) 5 79 6 70 7 59 8 47 9 29 10 27 11 22
Preseason All-Horizon League Teams Preseason All-Horizon League TeamsTeamPlayerPositionYear First Maddy Skorupski Guard Senior Second Jenna Guyer Forward/Center RS Senior Second Kamy Peppler Guard Senior
Roster
Schedule and results
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Injuries On November 13, 2025, it was announced that Sophie Lahti would miss the season due to a knee injury she suffered during the pre-season.
On January 22, 2026, against Oakland, redshirt-sophomore guard Maren Westin returned to action since suffering a torn ACL back in December 2024, where she tallied a rebound and scoring a layup in her first ten seconds back.
In January 2026, the Phoenix lost two players for the season to injury. Sophomore guard Kallie Peppler suffered a foot injury, last playing on Jan. 4 vs. Robert Morris. Freshman forward Madison Hoffmann suffered a hip injury, last appearing on Jan. 10.
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