Vermont Catamounts


The Vermont Catamounts are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs of the University of Vermont, based in Burlington, Vermont, United States. The school sponsors 18 athletic programs, most of which compete in the NCAA Division I America East Conference, of which the school has been a member since 1979. The men's and women's ice hockey programs compete in Hockey East. The men's and women's alpine and nordic skiing teams compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association. The school's athletic director is Robert Corran.
The Catamounts have won six national championships, all in skiing. The program's mascot is Rally and colors are green and gold.

Teams

Vermont is one of the only 4 NCAA Division I schools that don't sponsor volleyball and don't sponsor baseball.

Basketball

The men's basketball team has won the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, and 2017America East Conference Championships, qualifying for the NCAA Tournament in each of those seasons. In the 2005 NCAA Tournament, the team, seeded #13 in the Austin Regional, upset #4 Syracuse 60-57 in overtime. Sports Illustrated named the upset one of the top 10 NCAA Tournament upsets of the 2000s.

Ice hockey

The men's ice hockey team, coached by Kevin Sneddon, appeared in the 2009 Men's Frozen Four. It has also qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 1996, 1997, 2010, and 2014.
UVM's men's hockey team has produced 18 NHL players in its history. UVM alumni currently in the NHL include Viktor Stålberg '09, Torrey Mitchell '07, Patrick Sharp '02, Kevan Miller '11, Connor Brickley '14 and Michael Paliotta '15. Martin St. Louis '97, Eric Perrin '97, Sharp, Tim Thomas '97, and former NHL All-Star John LeClair '91 won the Stanley Cup in their careers. In 2004, St. Louis was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's MVP, the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer, and the Lester B. Pearson Award as the league's most outstanding player in the regular season as judged by the members of the NHL Players Association. Thomas was awarded the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender in 2009 and 2011, and the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs. UVM is the only NCAA program in history to count alumni who have won both the Hart Trophy and the Vezina Trophy, as well as the only NCAA program to generate an Art Ross winner.

Skiing

The UVM ski team has won six national championships and 33 EISA titles, most recently in 2014. The team has had 54 individual national champions, over 273 All-Americans, and 66 US Ski Team members.

Soccer

The men's soccer team qualified for the 2007 NCAA Tournament, defeating Dartmouth in the first round on penalty kicks. In 1989, the team advanced to the East Regional Final, losing to Rutgers 2-1 in overtime.

Women's teams

Basketball

Vermont's women's basketball team has performed well in the America East Tournament. In 2013, it made a conference-record 18th appearance in the semifinals. It has the most wins in tournament play, with 35. It has advanced at least one round in 19 of the 24 tournaments.
The Catamounts were the first women's basketball program to go undefeated during the regular season in back-to-back seasons, a feat matched only by Connecticut.
In the 2012-2013 season, the program had a total attendance mark of 10,579.

Former varsity teams

Baseball

After the 2009 season, the Vermont baseball program, which played at Centennial Field, was cut along with softball as a part of the university's budget cuts. Prior to the cuts of 2009, Vermont baseball was the winningest program at UVM with a.532 winning percentage.
Ten Vermont baseball players reached the major leagues, including Larry Gardner, who started at third base for four World Series champions in his 17-year big league career, lefthanded pitcher Ray Collins, who won 87 games in seven MLB seasons and started the first World Series game ever played at Fenway Park, and Kirk McCaskill, who won 110 games during his Major League career.

Football

Vermont had a football team that competed from 1886 until 2018. They were members of the Yankee Conference from 1947 until the program was disbanded.
Mascot
History Timeline:
February 6, 1928 The Vermont Cynic asked the University of Vermont undergraduates if they would like to have a mascot. The choices offered up by ballot were a tomcat, camel, cow or catamount. By a vote of 138-126 the catamount became the first University of Vermont Mascot, Charlie Catamount.
1968-1969 For a brief time between 1968 and 1969 UVM had a live mascot named "Rink". Rink was a puma cub born in captivity at a Peoria, Illinois, zoo and owned by avid hockey fans Nancy and Robert “Tiny” Leggett, of South Burlington, VT. As Rink grew from 10 lbs to over 100 lbs the couple became unable to care for him and were reported plans to donate him to Canada's Granby Zoo.
Early 1980s- Kitty Catamount joined Charlie as a "Catamount Couple" and the two mascots were married at a UVM hockey game.
Summer 2003- In a rebranding of mascot to be more visible the Charlie and Kitty Catamount were retired and Rally Cat was introduced.

Facilities

As of 2018 Vermont is Currently in the process of replacing Patrick Gym. The new arena named The Tarrant Event Center will be located next to Gutterson Field House and will have a capacity of 3,200.