The final round of the 121st Wisconsin State Amateur Championship golf tournament on the Sand Valley course at Sand Valley Resort will be discussed for a long time in the Obermueller family.
The fines paid by Michigan coach Juwan Howard and by UW on behalf of coach Greg Gard will be donated to charity, according to a conference spokesperson.Which charity? The Big Ten hasn’t worked that out yet.
Noted: A finalist for top college player of the year, Meghan Hunter moved into coaching women’s hockey at the University of Wisconsin: “I just naturally gravitated into coaching because that’s all I really thought was available at the time.”
Hunter spent time with the Ontario Hockey League’s London Knights and Hockey Canada, joined the Blackhawks in an administrative role in 2016 and climbed the ranks in scouting and hockey operations. Chicago promoted her to AGM in June.
“My path’s never been linear,” Hunter said. “I wanted to play in the NHL, so then when I realized that wasn’t a reality, I was like, ‘Wow, if I work in it, that’s pretty cool.’”
A federal judge in Madison has dismissed a woman’s lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin over how it reinstated a Badgers football star who had been expelled for sexual assault.
In the past year, college sports have experienced seismic changes that will reverberate for decades, impacting athletics, academics, funding, television rights, and athletic conference voting challenges.
Noted: Since March, there have been a number of high-profile suicides of college student-athletes across the U.S., including Katie Meyer, a goalkeeper on Stanford’s soccer team; Sarah Shulze, a top runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lauren Bernett, a standout softball player for James Madison University, and Arlana Miller, a star cheerleader at Southern University and A&M College in Louisiana.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team will return to Milwaukee for the second annual Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off between the winter holidays, a two-day college hockey showcase Dec. 28 and 29.
The group designed to pool money and facilitate name, image and likeness deals for University of Wisconsin athletes was announced June 4, but hasn’t done much of anything publicly since that day. The collective’s website invited fans to sign up for a newsletter and to fill in an online form signaling their interest in giving money to the group. But the State Journal has confirmed fans’ complaints that no communication has been received in the five weeks since launch.
Chris McIntosh’s one-year anniversary as University of Wisconsin athletic director passed in relatively quiet fashion earlier this month, his opening day of July spent enjoying time with family in northern Wisconsin.
When the University of Wisconsin broke ground on its renovation of the south end zone of Camp Randall Stadium in November, the goal was for the project to be done by the start of the upcoming football season.
It looks like they’ll meet that goal. Easily.
The inductees cover a range of sports, from football to basketball and hockey, as well as supporters of the university’s athletics programs.
Jason King has seen the transformation of the newest space at Camp Randall Stadium from high-level concept in a facility master plan five years ago to weeks away from completion in a tight construction window.
Now King, a senior associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, is picturing what the new facilities created in the 105-year-old stadium’s south end zone can bring to the department.
Noted: That is why it is bittersweet to announce that I’ll be taking on a new role at the Journal Sentinel. Later this summer I’ll join Jeff Potrykus to cover University of Wisconsin athletics in Madison, leaving the reporting of high school sports in the capable hands of Zac Bellman and Mike Whitlow.
He’ll be playing for the University of Wisconsin next season.
The franchise was eventually sold to John Fisher and Lew Wolff. Wolff attended the University of Wisconsin with then-MLB commissioner Bud Selig; the two reportedly were fraternity brothers. Lacob went on to buy the Warriors with Peter Guber in 2010.
Letter to the editor: I want to commend UW-Madison on its innovative “50 for 50” program to celebrate 50 years of Title IX and successful women student-athletes at UW.
They’ll be inducted Sept. 9 at Hamel Music Center, a new venue for the 2022 ceremony.
Ashortage of food and beverage workers forced the University of Wisconsin and its concessions provider to scale back some of the offerings for football games last season at Camp Randall Stadium.
For all the sunny days that the University of Wisconsin athletic department experienced in the 1990s — and there were many — it all happened with a dark cloud hovering overhead.
The U.S. Office of Civil Rights, following up on a complaint filed in 1989, had determined that UW was in violation of the Title IX law that requires students of both genders be provided nondiscriminatory participation opportunities, including in intercollegiate athletics.
College athletes will have access to plethora of new opportunities with new grand platform.
After announcing a strategic partnership last fall, the Big Ten is set to poach two of the biggest programs from the PAC-12.
When Big Ten officials proudly announced in 2013 that the league was adding Maryland of the ACC and Rutgers of the Big East, thus expanding to 14 schools, reaction in the Midwest was mixed.
John Karl Scholz issued a statement following the Big Ten’s announcement Thursday night.
“The University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to support the planned expansion of the Big Ten Conference with the inclusion of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). “This expansion helps solidify the Big Ten Conference as the one, true national powerhouse conference, with member universities, teams and fans stretching from coast to coast.
Engel-Natzke’s path to Washington began in earnest in 2017 when she began working as the full-time video coach for University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Tony Granato following several years assisting with the men’s and women’s programs there
Here’s what University of Wisconsin fans — and a few former UW athletes — were saying about the news.
The Big Ten named Rettke its Female Athlete of the Year for the second time Wednesday, making her just the second from UW to win the award more than once.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard’s new contract agreement, dated June 10, puts him as one of the highest-paid Big Ten men’s basketball coaches.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh said he’s happy for the Badgers’ West Coast alumni after the Big Ten Conference voted Thursday to add UCLA and Southern Cal. “They will now be more connected than ever to the conference and to their alma mater,” McIntosh said in a statement released by UW in the hours after the move became official. “I can’t wait for our teams and fans to come together on a regular basis in Southern California.”
How should you as University of Wisconsin fans feel about this seismic shift in college athletics? I’m not really sure, to be honest, because there’s a lot to process here and I’m not even sure how I feel quite yet.
After Oklahoma and Texas stunned the college athletics landscape by announcing their entry into the SEC last summer, USC and UCLA are reportedly taking a similar approach and departing from the PAC-12 conference to enter the Big Ten.
Dana Rettke, the powerhouse middle blocker who led the University of Wisconsin on a thrilling run to the NCAA Division I volleyball championship, has been named Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year, becoming the third Big Ten athlete so honored twice.
The honors keep piling up for Badger stars Johnny Davis and Dana Rettke. The pair were named the 2021-22 Wisconsin Athletes of the Year, UW Athletics announced Monday. This is Davis’ first time earning the honor and Rettke’s second.
When junior midfielder Tim Bielic heard that Neil Jones would be the next University of Wisconsin men’s soccer coach he was nervous, but excited. Nervous because he had already played three years at UW and didn’t know how the transition would go. Excited because he was already familiar with Jones and knew he had a winning resume.
After watching Johnny Davis help Wisconsin win the Maui Invitational in November, Greg Gard suspected Davis’ second season at UW would be his last in college and his next stop would be the NBA.
“When he played well for three games and dominated some good teams,” Gard said, “you kind of knew.”
University of Wisconsin Volleyball Coach Kelly Sheffield has been vocal on social media, advocating for better broadcast coverage of college volleyball during the postseason. “We didn’t have a single match on TV from the end of our regular season through the first two rounds of the tournament,” Sheffield said. “Thirty-some matches we were completely in the dark.”
Editor’s note: June 23 is the 50th anniversary of historic Title IX legislation being passed. This is the second in a series of stories about its impact on the University of Wisconsin.
Title IX gave University of Wisconsin women’s athletes and administrators a legal backing for their pursuit of better opportunities as the teams started under the athletic department umbrella in 1974.
Editor’s note: June 23 is the 50th anniversary of historic Title IX legislation being passed. This is the first in a series of stories about its impact on the University of Wisconsin.
The $3,500 operating budget for the first-year University of Wisconsin women’s track and field team had enough left over for two athletes to travel to the national championship in the spring of 1975.
With the project on track to be completed by the start of Badgers football season, take a look at the updates along the way.
Mark D’Onofrio will make $300,000 this season as the University of Wisconsin’s inside linebackers coach.
Wisconsin has been well represented in the NBA in the past several drafts, and the 2022 iteration of the annual selection process will infuse yet more young talent from the state into the world’s top basketball league.
University of Wisconsin star and La Crosse native Johnny Davis, Milwaukee native and University of Kansas star Ochai Agbaji will no doubt make it four consecutive drafts where a Wisconsinite was picked in the first round.
Success runs in the Hacker family. Wisconsin seventh-year senior Olin Hacker won the 5,000 meter race at the 2022 NCAA National Championship meet. 37 years prior, his father, Tim, won an NCAA championship with Wisconsin in cross country.
The idea of playing at, or perhaps even moving permanently to, the Kohl Center first was presented to Sheffield shortly after he arrived at UW in 2013.
The Big Ten Conference unveiled its 2022 outdoor track and field awards Thursday. Hacker, whose 13-minute, 27.73-second time earned him the 5,000-meter title during the NCAA outdoor championships last week, received the conference’s male track athlete of the year award.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will drop the banner for the 2021 NCAA Championship before their home opener against Marquette on Sept. 2. That’s one of the highlights of the 2022 schedule, which was released Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin running backs coach Al Johnson shared the latest look at the progress on the extensive updates to Camp Randall Stadium on social media Tuesday. With the project on track to be completed by the start of Badgers football season, take a look at the updates along the way.
The U.S. beat Canada 2-1 in overtime two years ago in Slovakia to win the title. Last year’s tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament this year was delayed and moved from Sweden to the University of Wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard announced the promotion of alum Joe Krabbenhoft on Monday. Krabbenhoft served as an assistant coach under Gard for the past seven seasons, but is now the associate head coach for the Badgers.
The University of Wisconsin basketball programs are heading to the baseball field. American Family Field in Milwaukee is set to host both the men’s and women’s basketball programs for a pair of games Nov. 11, according to a CBS report.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board on Friday approved a change to its discipline policy for athletes to close what athletic director Chris McIntosh said was a gap relating to drunken driving offenses.
Eight coaches of University of Wisconsin spring sports had their contracts extended on Friday, including three who now are on five-year deals.
Add another NCAA championship to the University of Wisconsin track and field program, and for that matter, another title overall for the Hacker family. Olin Hacker earned the 5,000-meter title during the NCAA outdoor championships Friday. He crossed the finish line with a first-place time of 13 minutes, 27.73 seconds.
Two of the more dominant players in the history of the Wisconsin football program, both of whom have achieved success off the field, are on the National Football Foundation’s 2023 College Football Hall of Fame ballot:
Offensive tackle Chris McIntosh and defensive back Troy Vincent.
The highest price of a volleyball season ticket will climb from around $7 per match to $20 and will require a mandatory per-seat contribution for new chairback seats being installed this summer at the UW Field House. Women’s hockey season ticket prices will increase by $1 per game to $5 while a cheaper option for youth and seniors at LaBahn Arena has been eliminated.
White seemed like he could be in line for a renaissance last year with then-rookie Mac Jones under center and leading a very conservative offensive approach. Those hopes came crashing down when the University of Wisconsin product suffered a hip subluxation in Week 3 that ultimately led to surgery and kept the veteran from returning to action in 2021. He finished the year with just 132 yards and a score.
The United States will play in front of a home crowd, and despite the gap in time, they return two players from the 2020 gold medal-winning team – Kirsten Simms and Danielle Burgen. Both forwards appeared in all five games for the USA in 2020 with the goal of gaining experience for later years. Simms is headed to the University of Wisconsin next season while Burgen will join the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Paul Chryst has reportedly filled the last open coaching position on his staff, bringing in Mark D’Onofrio onto the University of Wisconsin football team’s sideline.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will take a run at setting an NCAA regular-season attendance record during its national title defense. The Badgers will play perennial national power Florida at the Kohl Center on Sept. 16, the team announced Monday.
A group of University of Wisconsin alumni and donors determined to see UW athletics remain competitive in the Big Ten and nationally, have banded together to form “The Varsity Collective.”
The Varsity Collective, LLC launched Saturday with a website touting itself as the “premier destination for Wisconsin student-athletes to identify business opportunities” and “establishing the right outlet for Wisconsin Badger student-athletes to participate in NIL deals.” The collective will allow individuals and businesses to pool money to facilitate NIL deals for UW athletes.
A University of Wisconsin soccer player’s open letter about choosing to care for his mental health while taking a step back from the sport he excelled at has drawn praise from across the country for encouraging more young people to do the same
