BURLINGTON, Vt. – Vermont women's hockey head coach Jim Plumer has selected three student-athletes to lead the Catamounts during the 2024-25 campaign. Maddy Skelton and Alaina Tanski will serve as captains while Anna Podein will be an alternate.
 
Tanski will serve a leadership position for the second straight season for the Catamounts. Last season, Tanski served as an alternate while playing in all 34 games for Vermont, registering four goals and eight assists for 12 total points.
 
Skelton will also be serving in a leadership position for the second straight season for Vermont. Last season, Skelton served as an alternate and played in 26 games before her season was cut short due to injury. In those games played, Skelton produced five goals and three assists, good for eight total points.
 
Podein enters her first season in a leadership position, serving as an alternate for the 2024-25 campaign. Last year, Podein played in all 34 games for Vermont while registering five assists and 34 blocked shots.
 
Vermont opens the regular season on the road in Potsdam, NY from Cheel Arena, facing ECACH foe, Clarkson, on Friday Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. The Catamounts will be back in Gutterson Fieldhouse on Friday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 12 at 3 p.m. when they'll go head-to-head with Merrimack in their first Hockey East showdown of the season.
 
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The Windjammer Inn and Conference Center is the presenting sponsor of the UVM women's hockey program