The 2025–26 Vermont Catamounts women's basketball team represented the University of Vermont during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Catamounts, led by seventh-year head coach Alisa Kresge, played their home games at the Patrick Gym in Burlington, Vermont as members of the America East Conference.

Previous season The Catamounts finished the 2024–25 season 21–13, 13–3 in America East play, to finish in second place. They defeated UMBC, Bryant, and Albany to win the AmEast tournament championship, earning the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. In the NCAA tournament, they received the No. 15 seed in the Spokane Regional 1, where they were defeated by No. 2 seed NC State in the First Round.

Offseason Departures Vermont departures Lexi Kerstein 1 G 5'6" Sophomore Riverwoods, IL Transferred to Northern Illinois Natalie Beaudoin 4 G 6'0" Freshman Lewiston, ME Transferred to Franklin Pierce (DII) Bella Vito 10 G 5'9" Senior Montville, NJ Graduated Nika Kurdija 11 G 5'9" Junior Gornja Vrba, Croatia Transferred to USC Aiken (DII) Sarah Erickson 22 G 5'7" Senior Norwich, CT Graduated Anna Olson 24 F 6'1" Graduate Monticello, MN Graduated Sarah Lazar 34 F 6'3" Senior Madison, WI Graduated

Incoming transfers Vermont incoming transfers Annemarie Batista 11 F 6'1" RS senior Tucson, AZ Little Rock Jadyn Weltz 24 G 5'7" RS senior Timmins, Ontario Binghamton

Recruiting class There was no recruiting class for 2025.

Preseason On October 20, 2025, the America East Conference released their preseason poll. Vermont was picked to finish atop the conference, receiving seven first-place votes.

Preseason rankings +AmEast Preseason Poll Place Team Votes 1 Vermont 63 (7) 2 55 (2) 3 46 4 42 5 37 6 26 7 24 8 23 9 8

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Preseason All-America East Team Preseason All-America East TeamPlayerYearPositionCatherine Gilwee SeniorGuardNikola PriedeSeniorCenter Source:

Roster

Schedule and results

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!colspan=9 style=""|Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style=""|America East regular season

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