The 2025–26 Gonzaga Bulldogs women's basketball team represents Gonzaga University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 12th-year head coach Lisa Fortier, play their home games at the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Washington, as members of the West Coast Conference.

This season will mark Gonzaga's last season as members of the West Coast Conference, as they will be joining the newly reformed Pac-12 Conference, effective July 1, 2026.

Previous season The Bulldogs finished the 2024–25 season 24–11, 17–3 in WCC play, to finish as WCC regular season co-champions, alongside Portland. They were upset by eventual tournament champions Oregon State in the semifinals of the WCC tournament. They received an automatic bid to the WBIT, where they would defeated UTSA in the first round and Colorado in the second round, before falling to eventual tournament champions Minnesota in the quarterfinals.

Offseason Departures Due to COVID-19 disruptions throughout NCAA sports in 2020–21, the NCAA announced that the 2020–21 season would not count against the athletic eligibility of any individual involved in an NCAA winter sport, including women's basketball. This meant that all seniors in 2023–24 had the option to return for 2024–25. Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Reason left Esther Little 0 F 6'2" Senior Ipswich, England Graduated Claire O'Connor 4 G 6'0" Sophomore Bellevue, WA Transferred to Colorado Maud Huijbens 5 G 6'3" Senior Hilversum, Netherlands Graduated Tayla Dalton 10 G 5'9" Graduate Student Auckland, New Zealand Graduated Yvonne Ejim 15 F 6'1" Graduate Student Calgary, AB Graduated/2025 WNBA draft; selected 33rd overall by Indiana Fever Ella Hopkins 31 F 6'3" Freshman Rochester, MN Walk-on; TBD Bree Salenbien 35 G 6'2" Junior Adrian, MI Transferred to Ball State

Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Year Hometown Previousschool Sierra Lichtie 4 F 6'0" Graduate Student Riverton, UT Cal Poly Taylor Smith 20 F 6'2" Junior Pocatello, ID Weber State Teryn Gardner 24 G 5'9" Sophomore Spokane, WA Boise State Zeryhia Aokuso 55 G 5'10" Junior Amarillo, TX Saint Mary's

Recruiting There was no recruiting class of 2025.

Preseason On October 23, 2025, the West Coast Conference released their preseason poll. Gonzaga was picked to finish second in the conference, receiving three of the twelve first-place votes.

Preseason rankings +WCC Preseason Poll Place Team Votes 1 119 (9) 2 Gonzaga 111 (3) 3 94 4 91 5 84 6 70 7 55 8 52 9 38 10 36 11 31 12 11

Source:

Preseason All-WCC Team Preseason All-WCC TeamPlayerYearPositionZeryhia AokusoJuniorGuardAllie TurnerSophomore Source:

Roster

Schedule and results

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!colspan=12 style=""| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=9 style=""| WCC regular season

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See also 2025–26 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team

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