The consequential issues that will land on incoming UW-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s desk when she takes over in August involve more than academics … Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren and members of his senior leadership team help facilitate the introduction of new university leaders to the group, the conference said in a statement in response to questions.
Each helmet will have a prize associated with it, including tickets to a UW home game, Coach Chryst autographed footballs, Badger gear and gift cards from Bucky’s Locker Room, EatStreet, Toppers Pizza and Culver’s. Three grand prize winners will receive $100 Pick ’N Save gift cards and two tickets to the home game of their choice. Helmets were also hidden in Appleton, Eau Claire, Racine and Kenosha.
The University of Wisconsin competes in the Big Ten, which accommodates up to 76 rowers. But because it also sponsors a varsity lightweight team, in addition to its openweight team, USA TODAY calculated it can accommodate up to 100. The lightweight team competes in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships, which allows up to 16 women in lightweight boats. Using the 50% benchmark, eight more could serve as lightweight reserves.
The Wisconsin football program will commemorate “100 Days to Kickoff” on Thursday with a statewide scavenger hunt, partnering with city parks departments to make it happen.
Add another career first for former University of Wisconsin women’s hockey player Hilary Knight. She was named the Bob Allen Women’s Player of the Year by USA Hockey on Tuesday after she led the U.S. Olympic team in scoring.
The University of Wisconsin softball team experienced a spectrum of emotions over about an hour span Sunday in Gainesville, Florida. The Badgers rallied to walk off winners against Georgia Tech before allowing 10 runs in the first inning against Florida in the NCAA Tournament regional title game less than an hour later. The Gators ended UW’s season with an 11-0 victory.
Long before Kevin Zeitler played at the University of Wisconsin and went to a long career in the National Football League, he learned the game during practices on rough grass fields that sat under electric lines just south of Wisconsin Lutheran High School.
Those fields are part of the massive upgrades the school broke ground for Friday morning. The project is scheduled to be complete at the end of August, Lutheran athletic director Jeff Sitz said.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department has lost a family member who contributed to one of the more memorable victories in in the history of the football program.
Jeff Mack Sr. died May 8. He was 68.
Mack played flanker under John Jardine and lettered in 1972, 1973 and 1974. His son, Jeff Mack Jr., played linebacker at UW from 2000 through 2003.
Then, 21-year-old University of Wisconsin athlete and track star Sarah Shulze ended her life on April 13.
Sheridan was among four previous Air Force assistants who broke NCAA rules, according to a report by the Action Network’s Brett McMurphy late last week. Those violations included “providing impermissible benefits and hosting high school prospects during the COVID-19 dead period in 2020.”
The Badgers earned an at-large bid into the tournament Sunday after reaching the quarterfinal round of the Big Ten tournament last week. They will head to Gainesville, Florida, where they will open at 1 p.m. Friday against Georgia Tech in the double-elimination regional. No. 14 seed Florida and Canisius will play in the regional’s other opener at 3:30 p.m. Friday.
The University of Wisconsin’s reworked contract with Tony Granato makes it clear the upcoming season is crucial for the men’s hockey coach. A major change in the contract, released Friday in response to an open records request, is the amount of money UW would owe Granato if it fires him after a future season.
Mental health among student athletes has been thrust into the spotlight after at least five high-profile athletes died by suicide in recent months: Katie Meyer, a star goalie on Stanford’s soccer team; Sarah Shulze, a decorated runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lauren Bernett, the softball player who helped lead James Madison University to the Women’s College World Series; Robert Martin a lacrosse player at Binghamton University; and Arlana Miller, a cheerleader at Southern University. Others have also been reported, but not confirmed.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team plans to make its first international trip since 2017. The Badgers are scheduled to head to France on Aug. 7 to play four games in Paris, Lyon and Nice before returning home Aug 17.
Former University of Wisconsin players Lauren Carlini and Dana Rettke are among 25 players named to the USA Volleyball roster for this year’s Volleyball Nations League.
Rebecca Blank isn’t sure what’s coming next in college athletics but as she prepares to leave her job as UW-Madison chancellor she said there will be challenges for her successor.
A new book about a women’s sports pioneer at the University of Wisconsin offers an important and overlooked story of the school’s athletic department that adds crucial context for anyone whose idea of Badgers sports history is limited to Alan “The Horse” Ameche and “Badger” Bob Johnson.
The average of 1,157 was 30% lower than the previous season with fans in 2019-20. In between, the Badgers changed coaches — Marisa Moseley replaced Jonathan Tsipis in 2021 — and had games in the 2020-21 season closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Crowd sizes for University of Wisconsin women’s hockey games at LaBahn Arena last season fell to the lowest level since 2014-15. Still, more people watched the Badgers than any other NCAA women’s hockey team in 2021-22.
The 2019-20 team played before an average of 11,801. The number fell to 11,335 in 2021-22, when UW recorded its three smallest crowds in 15 seasons of records.
The Badgers played before the smallest crowds on record in their first season of publicly attended games since the start of the pandemic.
Bill Sheridan, who was hired earlier this year as a University of Wisconsin football assistant coach, reportedly is under investigation by the NCAA for rules violations while he was an assistant at Air Force.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard stood on the main concourse of the Kohl Center with the biggest smile on his face. He was posing for pictures and shaking hands as people arrived for Garding Against Cancer’s gala Saturday, the fifth time the event has been held.
Since the beginning of March, three high-profile college student-athletes have died by suicide across the United States: Katie Meyer, a star goalkeeper on Stanford’s soccer team; Sarah Shulze, a top runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Lauren Bernett, a standout softball player for James Madison University.
On Thursday, Southern University and A&M College announced a cheerleader, Arlana Miller, had died shortly after writing a social-media post that detailed her mental-health struggles, NBC News reported. That news followed the deaths by suicide of three women this spring: Lauren Bernett, a James Madison University softball player; Sarah Shulze, a member of the University of Wisconsin at Madison track team; and Katie Meyer, a Stanford University soccer player.
Sarah Shulze, a track star at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Katie Meyer, the Stanford women’s soccer team’s goalkeeper, both died by suicide.
Since the beginning of March, three high-profile college student-athletes have died by suicide across the United States: Katie Meyer, a star goalkeeper on Stanford’s soccer team; Sarah Shulze, a top runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Lauren Bernett, a standout softball player for James Madison University.
News of Bernett’s passing comes as the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford grieve the recent death of athletes who both died by suicide.
Star athletes at UW-Madison are finally getting a piece of the enormous revenue surrounding Badgers sports, especially men’s basketball and football. That’s only fair. Other players with lower profiles deserve greater financial incentives, too. We love the idea, floated by the chancellor earlier this month, of offering student athletes cash awards for good grades. That will help continue Wisconsin’s strong reputation for graduating most of its players in all of its sports.
Their deaths have prompted student-athletes across the country to come forward and share their own struggles with mental health.
Six players for the University of Wisconsin, as well as former UW quarterback Jack Coan, agreed to free-agent deals after the conclusion of the 2022 NFL draft.
The Denver Broncos may not have a pick in the first round of the NFL Draft, but there’s been some school spirit swirling around the team in the days leading up to the draft.
Running back Melvin Gordon officially re-signed with Denver on April 27, but the Broncos announced their intentions earlier in the week on Twitter by posting this photo of Gordon and Russell Wilson posing together after a game between the Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks when Wilson was still with Seattle. The two have on different jerseys in the photos, but they’re both flashing ‘W’ signs with their hands, signifying the time when they wore the same jersey at the University of Wisconsin.
The 40th annual Crazylegs race is back this Saturday. NBC15 sports director Mike Jacques and chief meteorologist Charlie Shortino will be the emcees at the event.
Tony Granato has a reworded contract to be the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach, but administrators at various levels aren’t disclosing the changes made.
Chris McIntosh likely won’t ever forget July 1, 2021.
That was McIntosh’s first official day as Wisconsin’s athletic director.
McIntosh, 44 at the time, had accepted the challenge of replacing Barry Alvarez, his coach at UW and the man who went on to lead UW’s athletic department for nearly two decades.
That same day, college athletes for the first time were allowed to secure compensation for their Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) without facing any NCAA penalties.
A student-athlete from the University of Wisconsin-Madison died by suicide, her family said.
Sarah Shulze, a runner on the University of Wisconsin’s track and cross country teams, has died. She was 21.Shulze’s family announced on April 15 that she had died two days earlier, and gave the cause of death.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department’s budget for the next school year shows activity returning to a pre-pandemic normal. UW is expecting to spend more than $148 million to operate in the 2022-23 fiscal year, nearly 15% higher than the current budget that had a “certain amount of conservatism” built in, CFO Adam Barnes said.
“YouDub Marketplace” will give business partners a platform to access UW-Madison’s student-athlete profiles and negotiate potential NIL opportunities.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s coaching staff won’t return intact after the second-worst season in the team’s modern era.
Four years after a sexual assault scandal shook the University of Wisconsin-Madison, some of the key players have moved on with their careers.
One construction worker was injured after a fire broke out at Camp Randall Stadium on Wednesday morning, according to University of Wisconsin officials.
A worker was taken to University Hospital with burns after a fire Wednesday morning in an area under construction at Camp Randall Stadium, authorities said.
The fire involved roofing solvent material and was extinguished by non-emergency personnel at the scene before the Madison Fire Department arrived, according to a statement from UW Athletics.
Former Wisconsin running back coach Gary Brown passed away Sunday evening at the age of 52, according to Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Brown underwent two bouts with cancer, including after the 2019 season when he was not retained by the Cowboys. He underwent immunotherapy and did not coach in 2020, prior to coming to Wisconsin.
Gary Brown, the University of Wisconsin running backs coach last season, died Sunday night in Pennsylvania.
Members of the University of Wisconsin athletic department – from administrators to coaches – routinely tout the school’s academic standing as a selling point for recruits and a source of pride.
UW officials plan to back up their words with action.
UW is among only 22 FBS schools currently with plans to compensate student-athletes for academic achievement.
Kit Saunders-Nordeen had an interesting definition of fun. It involved fighting for fairness, fighting for funding, fighting for respect and best of all, eventually winning all those fights. But when UW-Madison’s first director of women’s athletics spoke of the challenges she faced building a program from the ground up, she was known to add three little words about the experience: “Wasn’t it fun?”
Turns out there’s more than a trophy and a banner that comes with winning a national championship. Over the past few months the Badgers have been lauded and applauded at the Kohl Center, Lambeau Field, Fiserv Forum, the State Capitol and the chancellor’s residence. Still to come is a trip to American Family Field this summer.
“Wisconsin men’s basketball guard Brad Davison has been granted a sixth year of eligibility from the NCAA and will return to Wisconsin for the 2022-23 season,” the Badgers announced. “Davison was awarded a medical hardship for his 2017-18 season that was marred by a reoccurring shoulder injury.”
The University of Wisconsin Badgers offensive line runs drills during the University of Wisconsin spring football practice at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison on Thursday, March 31, 2022.
The Badgers played UW-Green Bay on Tuesday night at Beaver Dam High School in a spring practice scrimmage, attracting a little under 2,500 fans — a sold-out crowd — to the school’s state of the art fieldhouse that opened in January 2018.
If you place a mic in front of Bonnie Oleson, she’ll feel right at home.For nearly two and a half decades, Bonnie Oleson has been the public address announcer for several UW sports including volleyball and women’s basketball. She added another team to the mix on March 24: the 2020-2021 NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks.
Quoted: “It still really hasn’t hit me,” said longtime PA announcer Bonnie Oleson.
Oleson is the PA announcer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s volleyball, basketball and softball teams. On occasion, she also announces for the women’s soccer and hockey teams.
National television has finally discovered college women’s basketball. Now, Kelly Sheffield is wondering when it will do the same for volleyball.
The period of time between when USA Hockey asked to host a rescheduled IIHF Under-18 Women’s World Championship and when the request was granted was short. So, too, was the time for bid partners with the Madison Area Sports Commission, the University of Wisconsin and the operators of Bob Suter’s Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton to put together their case to be the site.
Wisconsin men’s basketball fans felt a sweet ride to Chicago was in sight. However, Iowa State re-routed both the Badgers and their fanbase back home with a bitter taste.
As for the science behind March Madness, UW-Madison professor of industrial and systems engineering and bracketologist Laura Albert joined Live at Four to talk about how to make the most of your bracket for this year’s NCAA tournament.
Badger fans are traveling down the road to cheer on their home team. They showed game day-level spirit Thursday afternoon at open practice. The free event at Fiserv Forum came ahead of Wisconsin men’s basketball team opening the NCAA tournament play on Friday against the Colgate Raiders.
