Kutztown University Women's Bowling Announces 2025-2026 Roster

Kutztown University has announced 16 student-athletes will represent its women's bowling team for the 2025-2026 season.

After claiming the East Coast Conference crown and advancing in the NCAA Bowling Regionals for the first time in over a decade, the Kutztown University women's bowling team is favored to repeat its success from a season ago, as it was placed at the top of the East Coast Conference (ECC) Women's Bowling Preseason Poll.

The Golden Bears (64-45 overall in 2024-25) had one of its most successful campaigns in program history a season ago, advancing in the NCAA postseason for the second time in program history and reaching the regional round of NCAA postseason competition for the first time in its current format (since 2021). The team swept all three individual ECC honors on its way to the conference championship victory.

At the end of last season, the National Tenpin Coaches Association gave Kutztown votes in the final overall polls, while the DII/DIII polls placed the Golden Bears as the eighth-best team among the non-Division I teams. KU's .590 win-loss percentage ranked 22nd in the nation, while its predetermined rating percentage index (RPI) mark of .533 placed them in a tie for No. 32 in the nation.

In the conference preseason polls, Kutztown is five votes ahead of second-place Bryant, who finished third at the ECC Championship a season ago. Rounding out the top five are reigning ECC Championship runners-up Roberts Wesleyan in third, Molloy in fourth, and Adelphi and Saint Anselm in a tie for fifth. Kutztown collected six first-place votes, while Bryant claimed a pair and Roberts Wesleyan snagged the remaining vote.

The Golden Bears open their season at the Bud Whitman Memorial Tournament Oct. 11-12, followed by the home Golden Bear Invite at Berks Lanes in Sinking Spring, Pa., Nov. 1-2. The ECC Championship Tournament is set to take place March 20-22, following the conclusion of the team's nine-event NCAA schedule and lone United States Bowling Congress (USBC) event.