BURLINGTON, Vt. - University of Vermont head women's lacrosse coach Sarah Dalton Graddock has unveiled the team's 16-game regular season schedule for the upcoming 2020 campaign. The announcement was made on Tuesday.
 
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• The Catamounts will play four teams for the first time ever – Merrimack, Wagner, Mercer, and Kennesaw State.
• The America East schedule will begin with a trip to New Hampshire on Sunday, March 22.
• The 2020 docket includes two visits to a pair of defending conference champions – Mercer on Sunday, March 8 and Stony Brook on Saturday, April 4.
• UVM will host Hartford for its second annual Vanessa Cox No. 23 Memorial Game on Sunday, March 28 to honor the late Vanessa Cox '05. Dalton Graddock will select one player to wear Cox's No. 23 jersey. Cox, a 2015 UVM Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, graduated as the all-time leader in points (173) and goals (133). She was tragically killed in a car crash in February of 2015 at the age of 31. 

Vermont returns a solid core of 24 student-athletes from last year's squad. Grace Giancola, an All-Conference Second Team and All-Rookie Team selection last season, ranked second in the league with 81 draw controls. She is also one of UVM's top returning scorers from a year ago with 24 points on an even 12 goals and 12 assists. Dani Paterno matched Giancola with 24 points on 20 goals and four assists. The Mullica Hill, New Jersey native registered six multi-goal games including two hat tricks.
 
In just three seasons at the helm, Dalton Graddock has quickly climbed to No. 3 on the school's all-time wins list. In 2019, the Catamounts reached the win column eight times – the most victories in five years.