NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's lacrosse team enters the 2025 season ranked No. 9 in the nation in the IWLCA poll. The poll was announced Monday. Voters represent college coaches from across the nation. Defending national champion Boston College is No. 1.
 
Yale is coming off a historic season. The Bulldogs went 17-3 and won a pair of games in the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the NCAA Quarterfinals. They won the Ivy League Tournament for the first time in school history and secured the first outright Ivy League Championship for the regular season in program history (Yale shared the Ivy title in 1980 and 2003). The team went 7-0 in Ivy play for the first time, and the Bulldogs' 17 overall wins were a school record. Yale was ranked No. 6 in the final 2024 IWLCA national poll.
 
Yale was the top-ranked Ivy League school in this poll, followed by Penn (No. 12) and Princeton (No. 17).

For the 2025 season, Yale returns 10 players who started at least 15 games last year – and the team's top seven goal scorers. Two Bulldogs (senior attacker Jenna Collignon (Hinsdale, Ill.) and senior midfielder Fallon Vaughn (Concord, Mass.)) were recently ranked in the top 16 of ILWomen's list of the top 50 players in the nation. The Bulldogs have added eight first years, three of whom were named to ILWomen's Power 100 national rankings of first-year players.