BURLINGTON, Vt. – No. 15 Women's Hockey (3-1-0) will travel to Ithaca, N.Y. preparing for a top 15 matchup with No. 14 Cornell (0-0-0) from Lynah Rink. The weekend series will begin on Friday (Oct. 16) at 6 p.m. and will conclude on Saturday (Oct. 17) with puck drop slated for 3 p.m. All the action for the top 15 matchup will be broadcast live on ESPN+.
 
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VERMONT OUTLOOK

• Vermont most recently comes off a weekend sweep of Franklin Pierce during the first road set of the season, defeating the Ravens 2-1 on Oct. 9 and then again 4-0 on Oct. 10. There were numerous first milestones throughout the weekend, seeing first year skaters Zoe Charland and Gracesyn Louis each secure their first career goals as Catamounts while Lila Pannacciulli picked up an assist, her first career assist and point in the Green and Gold. Ezra Oien and Rose-Marie Brochu both notched their first goal of the season while Cecilia DesLauriers recorded her first assist of the season. Ellie Simmons made her first start of the season on Oct. 9 making 18 total saves and Tara Bach registered her second shutout on the campaign the next day making 19 total stops.
• The Catamounts are ranked No. 15 in the latest USCHO Women's Poll for the second consecutive week.
• Vermont is off to its best four-game start (3-1-0) since the 2022-23 season.
• UVM has scored first in all four games to begin the season and have gone a perfect nine-for-nine on the penalty kill thus far. The Catamounts have yet to trail during regulation this season.
• Four games into the 2026-27 campaign, Kaylee Lewis (1g, 3a) and Linnéa Misner (4a) are tied for a team high four points while Hilary Wilkin leads the team with two goals. Charland is currently on a three-game point streak (1g, 2a).
• Vermont and Cornell will meet for the 16th and 17th time in program history. Vermont's all-time record against Cornell is 2-12-1. During the 2025-26 season, the Catamounts split a weekend set with Cornell from Gutterson Fieldhouse, winning the first game 4-3, UVM's second ever victory over the Big Red. Lauren O'Hara notched three points (1g, 2a) in that contest while Brochu earned a career high three assists. Natalie Zarcone also added two assists of her own in that game, which at the time was her first career multi-assist game.  

 
SCOUTING THE BIG RED

• Cornell was selected to finish third in the 2026-27 ECAC Hockey Preseason Coaches' Poll garnering 98 points and one first-place vote.
• The Big Red have yet to play a game this season, hosting the Catamounts in their opening home series of 2026-27.
• Cornell enters the new season coming off a 20-11-2 campaign that saw the Big Red go 14-7-1 in conference play, good for fourth place in the ECAC Hockey standings. The Big Red advanced to the ECAC Hockey semifinals before falling to Yale 7-2 last season.
• The leading returning scorers for Cornell feature senior defender Piper Grober (9g, 16a, 25p), senior forward Karel Prefontaine (11g, 13a, 24p), and sophomore forward Nora Curtis (6g, 13a, 19p). In goal, Annelies Bergmann returns for her senior year after starting all 33 games in 2025-26, posting a 1.93 goals-against average, a .928 save percentage and recoding seven shutouts.

 
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