Alyssa Blanck Gives Utah Women's Basketball a Salt Lake Storyline

Alyssa Blanck, a 6-foot-2 senior forward from Salt Lake City, is listed on the Utah Women's Basketball 2025-26 roster. A former Olympus High School standout, she transferred to Utah as a walk-on after one season at BYU. Utah's February 2026 game notes carry her through the heart of the Big 12 schedule, including the Oklahoma State home game and the regular-season Holy War against the Cougars.

The transfer route gives Utah a Salt Lake City native on its frontcourt depth chart and a BYU-to-Utah arc that the rivalry's modern conference setting now allows. Both schools sit inside the Big 12 women's basketball league, and the regular-season matchup is on Utah's home calendar.

The roster line

The official Utah roster supplies the verified pieces of Blanck's profile: class, position, height, and Salt Lake City hometown. She is a 6-foot-2 forward — Big 12 women's basketball size — listed as a senior, which makes 2025-26 the closing chapter of a college career that began in Provo before the move across the rivalry line.

Utah lists her among the program's frontcourt options for 2025-26 after she worked into the rotation following the transfer. Frontcourt depth has been a staple of Utah's identity under second-year head coach Gavin Petersen, and the roster page places Blanck inside that group rather than as a specialty addition.

The height on her profile matters for the Big 12 matchup grid. The league's top programs run with frontcourts in the 6-foot-2 to 6-foot-4 range, and Blanck's measurable lets Utah keep its size advantage when it goes to a three-forward look.

The BYU-to-Utah transfer

Blanck began her college career at BYU before entering the women's basketball transfer portal and signing with the Utes. The move crosses the loudest line in Utah's college sports map — BYU to the U — without leaving the city; her high school, the BYU campus, and the Utah campus all sit within an hour's drive of each other.

The conference structure changed the meaning of that move. When Utah was in the Pac-12 and BYU was independent, a player crossing between the two programs left one league for another. With both schools now in the Big 12, the transfer simply changes one Big 12 roster for another. Blanck plays two regular-season games against her old program every year now: one in Provo, one in Salt Lake City.

She is one of a small handful of athletes who have made the BYU-to-Utah move in any sport during the rivalry's modern era. The women's basketball version of that route is even rarer.

The 2025-26 schedule context

Utah opens its Big 12 portion of the schedule in early January and runs through early March. The Utes' February 2026 stretch — captured in the program's official game notes — included Oklahoma State at the Jon M. Huntsman Center and the home Holy War against BYU.

Utah's game notes list Blanck on the active roster for both. The Oklahoma State matchup was a top-half Big 12 contest. The BYU game ran inside the same week and drew the larger crowd that the Holy War now attracts in its Big 12 setting.

Utah's official athletics site is the source for individual production through the conference run — minutes, rebounds, scoring contributions, and defensive matchups appear in each box score and weekly game-note packet. The Big 12 also posts league-wide statistical leaders weekly, which is where a player like Blanck would show up if she breaks into the conference's top-15 rebounding lists.

The Utes' home arena is the Huntsman Center on the U of U campus. The official photo released after the February UCF game placed Blanck on the floor inside that building. Salt Lake City native, Salt Lake City college, Salt Lake City home court — the geography is consistent end-to-end.

Big 12 women's basketball in its second year

Utah women's basketball is in its second year of Big 12 membership in 2025-26. The Utes joined from the Pac-12 in the same conference realignment cycle that moved BYU, Arizona, Arizona State, and Colorado into the league.

The early Big 12 schedule has been a measuring stick for the Utah program. Big 12 home games carry a different television footprint than Pac-12 games did, and the conference's top-end teams — Baylor, Kansas State, TCU, Texas — give the schedule a different rhythm than the West Coast slate Utah used to play. Blanck's transfer landed inside that adjustment year, which makes her frontcourt depth a structural fit rather than a depth experiment.

The Utes' roster construction for 2025-26 leans on returners around the new transfers, and Blanck's hometown line gives the program a Salt Lake City face inside the rotation that the program can lean on for community engagement around the Big 12 schedule.

A senior season inside Utah's NCAA push

Blanck's 2025-26 season is part of a veteran senior class. Utah honored her alongside Lani White, Maty Wilke, and Samantha Crispe on its February 27, 2026 senior day — the group second-year head coach Gavin Petersen leaned on through the Big 12 schedule. Utah had reached the NCAA Tournament in each of the four seasons entering 2025-26, and that senior core carried the program's case to extend the streak.

The Big 12 women's basketball tournament tips off in early March in Kansas City, and the NCAA selection show follows in mid-March; Utah's at-large case rests on its conference finish and NET ranking. For Blanck, the per-game record — minutes, rebounds, and scoring — lives in each Utah box score on the official site. As a senior, 2025-26 is the final season of a career that crossed the state's loudest rivalry line without ever leaving Salt Lake City.

Key facts: Alyssa Blanck

• Player: Alyssa Blanck, 6-foot-2 forward, Utah Utes (senior, 2025-26)
• Hometown / prep: Salt Lake City — Olympus High School
• Path: One season at BYU, then transferred to Utah as a walk-on
• Conference: Big 12 (Utah's second year in the league)
• Head coach: Gavin Petersen (second year)
• Senior class: Honored on Feb 27, 2026 senior day with Lani White, Maty Wilke, and Samantha Crispe