Women’s Basketball Announces 2025-26 Schedule

10/20/2025 12:00:00 AM

(2025-26 schedule)

Goldey-Beacom brings back many familiar faces and welcomes what should be key participants against what will be a tough schedule for the 2025-26 campaign.

GBC begins things November 14 against the District of Columbia and continues the next day vs. Daemen, both at Wilmington University. The home opener is November 19 against Staten Island and the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference schedule begins November 25 at Caldwell.

The squad on December 9 is at Wilmington (DE) and hosts Felician on the 13th before three tough contests to end the calendar year. GBC is at Saint Anselm on the 18th, visits Franklin Pierce the next day and hosts Mercy on New Year's Eve.

January sees the unit host reigning champion Holy Family on January 20 and the month end with a home contest on the 31st against Dominican (NY).

The rematch with Holy Family is February 25 in Philadelphia and the regular-season finale is February 28 at home against Bridgeport.

In a change this season, each team faces each conference opponent twice with the North and South Divisions eliminated. Eight teams still will go to the conference tournament with the quarterfinals on March 3 and championship weekend March 7-8 in Caldwell, NJ.

An impact player teams always scout is senior guard Rory Ciszkowski (Wilmington, DE), one of the purest shooters the program has produced. A third team all-conference pick in 2023-24, Ciszkowski last season ended first in the CACC with 87 three-pointers and second with .429 three point percentage.

Ciszkowski enters this season first in school history with 227 career 3-pointers, 12th with 995 points and 10th with a .423 field goal percentage.

Sophomore Lydia Betz (Pittsburgh, PA) is back and once again will provide the shooting mentality of a guard, the inside presence of a forward and the intensity of a center. She played 29 games last season with 23 starts, providing a .471 field goal percentage and this season should get more than the 121 attempts she had last season.

Senior Gaia Zimbardo (Parma, Italy) is a forward who last season gave the Lightning key minutes off the bench and should see her playing time go way up from the 9.5 minutes per game in 2024-25. Senior Karlee Lemon (Williamsburg, VA) for three seasons has been a solid player at guard and again will be a key factor this season.

Junior Genesis Garcia (Aguada, PR), Janie Cross (West Deptford, NJ) and fellow sophomore Marasia Dyes (Binghamton, NY) are three guards who last season saw limited playing time, but that certainly will change this season. Freshmen Kato Van Heuverbeke (Waregem, Belgium) and Amber Furtado (Deerfield, NH) join the team seeking to play big minutes at forward.

Goldey-Beacom last season overcame injuries to make the CACC Tournament in consecutive years for the first time in a decade.

GBC got in the tournament on the heels of a 78-77 overtime victory February 15 at Georgian Court to avoid elimination, followed by a 71-68 upset seven days later of No. 20 Holy Family. The squad then punched its ticket with an 86-64 triumph March 1 at local-rival Wilmington (DE).

Goldey-Beacom also saw eight make the CACC All-Academic Team and the squad picked to the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division II Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll.

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