Category: Athletics

Shawn Eichorst presented a collaborative vision for the future of the University of Wisconsin athletic department in an effort to become its leader.

Shawn Eichorst will have a higher compensation level as University of Wisconsin athletic director than his predecessor did.

The Wisconsin Badgers appear to be taking a familiar route with their athletic director hire.

Wisconsin is targeting former Nebraska and Miami athletic director Shawn Eichorst for its AD vacancy, according to a report by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. A university spokesman did not immediately comment on the report.

Wisconsin is targeting Shawn Eichorst as the school’s next athletic director, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

Hall of Fame basketball coach Bo Ryan had an impressive run of athletic department administrators who oversaw his University of Wisconsin program.

One of them was Shawn Eichorst.

The University of Wisconsin is working on hiring Shawn Eichorst as its next athletic director, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Tuesday.

Culver’s has become the first jersey patch sponsor for Wisconsin football, men’s basketball and men’s hockey, Wisconsin Athletics announced Tuesday morning.

The Wisconsin Badgers appear to be taking a familiar route with their athletic director hire.

Wisconsin is targeting former Nebraska and Miami athletic director Shawn Eichorst for its AD vacancy, according to a report by ESPN’s Pete Thamel. A university spokesman did not immediately respond to the report.

Craig Culver said he can’t guarantee more wins for the University of Wisconsin football team now that it’ll be wearing the logo of the restaurant chain bearing his family’s name on its uniforms.

Matthew Mors, like countless others who have recently departed college, had to figure out what he was going to do.
The former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball forward from Yankton, South Dakota, wasn’t with the Badgers very long. He never officially played in a game during his lone season with Badgers in 2021-22, and his four-year playing career with only one school, South Dakota State, ended this past March. So, Mors smiled when asked if he had expected to don the motion W logo — the one stitched to the left side of his gray polo at Wisconsin’s advanced camp June 18 — ever again.

Nick Peruzzi is stepping into an important role in acquiring and developing talent for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team.

The 100th anniversary of Breese Stevens Field has given pause to Otto Puls for reflection on its history, and his own with the Madison venue fronting East Washington Avenue.

Puls was his bat boy for games at Breese Stevens. In a 1954 Capital Times column, Cornelius wrote about Puls, who was then playing for the University of Wisconsin.

At the end of a 20-minute conversation, focused until then on Chris Borland deservedly going into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame, the questioning took an abrupt turn.

A game-changing administrative catalyst in the University of Wisconsin athletic department and football turnaround of the ‘90s has some thoughts on today’s challenges.

The ongoing chaos in the present college model holds some personal intrigue and piqued the curiosity of Al Fish, one of 12 inductees to the 2026 UW Athletics Hall of Fame.

Brian Posick hasn’t forgotten his first Madison Sports Hall of Fame banquet. It was 30 years ago, and the memory is still fresh.

Former University of Wisconsin sports information director Jim Mott was among the four inductees in 1996, and Posick was drawn to the event because “I admired him.”

Posick was subsequently hooked. “I wanted to see what it was all about,” he said, “and I’ve been there ever since handing out individual awards, whatever they may be.”

In their latest attempt to get the program back on track, the Wisconsin Badgersannounced the football program’s next general manager.

According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Wisconsin hired longtime NFL personnel executive Morocco Brown.

University of Wisconsin Interim Director of Athletics Marcus Sedberry announced Thursday that 12 standout athletes and staff members will be inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2026.

Sedberry revealed the class inside Victory Hall at Camp Randall Stadium. The group will be inducted during Hall of Fame weekend on Sept. 18-19, and will be honored at Camp Randall during Wisconsin football’s game vs. Eastern Michigan on Sept. 19 (11:30 a.m. CT).

Speaking Thursday morning to a meeting of downtown business leaders, UW-Madison interim athletic director Marcus Sedberry said he anticipates the new director will be named before the Badgers football season begins in September.

“My estimation is before football season, there will be some type of announcement of who the next athletic director will be,” Sedberry said at a Downtown Madison Inc. breakfast event held at the Edgewater Hotel.

It’s one thing that a national college football preseason magazine has University of Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell on its “hot seat” list.

It’s another thing for Fickell’s fourth-year program to be the target of a “hot take” from an anonymous opposing Big Ten assistant coach in the same magazine.

UW-Madison Athletics announced Tuesday that six Badger programs earned perfect multi-year scores in the NCAA’s most recent Academic Progress Rate report.

The teams that achieved flawless multi-year APR scores of 1,000 were men’s golf, women’s golf, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s track & field and men’s wrestling.

To get around these days, Pat Richter has been using a cane, a concession to the toll on his 84-year-old hips and knees from playing football.

But he has taken it all in stride.

Even if that stride, in his words, has been reduced to “slow but sure” steps.

Some would suggest that’s the approach the University of Wisconsin should take in hiring its next athletic director, a title Richter once held for 14-plus years.

To get around these days, Pat Richter has been using a cane, a concession to the toll on his 84-year-old hips and knees from playing football.

But he has taken it all in stride.

Even if that stride, in his words, has been reduced to “slow but sure” steps.

UW-Madison has officially launched a search for its next director of athletics.

Incoming Interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots is leading the search process after outgoing Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin asked him to take charge, given her time as chancellor ends May 16.

“Wisconsin Athletics plays a vital role in the life of our campus and our community; its success matters,” Wilcots said in a statement issued Tuesday.

UW-Madison on Tuesday announced the launch of its search for a next director of athletics, with a search committee including the Indianapolis Colts’ general manager.

Outgoing Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin asked interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots to take the lead on the search process, given that her time as chancellor concludes on Saturday. The new athletics director is expected to begin their role this summer.

Marcus Sedberry could be Wisconsin’s interim athletic director for a while – or not so long.

UW has yet to announce a search firm, search committee or other important details in the three-plus weeks since Chris McIntosh’s abrupt departure to take a position at the Big Ten office.

The process of finding a new athletic director at the University of Wisconsin already is different than the last one.

There was one day between the announcement of Barry Alvarez’s pending retirement in 2021 and the naming of a nine-person search committee to help find his replacement, complete with a website that featured an eight-page prospectus document.

The Wisconsin Badgers are in a relatively rare position.

For just the third time in more than three decades, UW will be hiring a new athletic director.

Chris McIntosh left earlier in April to take a new position with the Big Ten as its deputy commissioner for strategy. Marcus Sedberry will serve as interim athletic director during the national search.

Mick Byrne made it clear his impending retirement was not a revelation. Instead, some alarms went off for the University of Wisconsin cross country and track coach.

In late November, a handful of days after the NCAA men’s and women’s cross-country championships, Byrne had triple bypass heart surgery.

In a seismic shakeup at the top of the Wisconsin athletics department, athletic director Chris McIntosh recently announced his departure from the role to join the Big Ten conference in an administrative capacity.

Wisconsin legend Barry Alvarez was just as surprised as anybody.

Wisconsin hockey is leaving Las Vegas without the national championship trophy after falling to Denver 2-1 in the title game on April 11.

The Badgers dominated the shots on goal but after a first-period goal they couldn’t find the back of the net again, while Denver’s two third-period goals lifted the Pioneers to their 11th national championship and third in the last five years.