Category: Athletics

The players skated around Tuesday afternoon at Wukesong Sports Center without their helmets and — briefly, mercifully — without their masks, stopping and smiling for the camera that would capture the official team portrait of the 2022 U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team, not to mention their own camera phones that were tucked under pads on their hips or their shoulders. After the large group photo came the subsets: first-time Olympians in one shot, the goalies in another; University of Minnesota players followed by those from the University of Wisconsin — rivals in everyday life, teammates here.

A total of 222 athletes will be representing the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and 20 of them have ties to the Badger State. From reigning gold medal teams in men’s curling and women’s ice hockey to breakout speedskating star Jordan Stolz, Wisconsin athletes will be aiming for the podium when the Games begin on Wednesday.

There are six players with Wisconsin connections on the 2022 U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team, which begins play in the preliminary round at 7:10 p.m. Thursday.

Wisconsin coach Greg Gard lost his father, Glen, to brain cancer a little more than six years ago.

He was 72.

Now Gard’s 75-year-old mother, Connie, is undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst has landed his No. 1 target for UW’s new offensive coordinator:

Bobby Engram.

According to a UW source, the Executive Committee of the UW Board of Regents on Friday approved Engram’s compensation package.

The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved standard contract extensions for three fall sports coaches.

The five-year contracts of football coach Paul Chryst, volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield and women’s soccer coach Paula Wilkins were extended by one year to January 31, 2027.

Missed the final match? No worries; Cardinal sports reporter Taylor Smith will catch you up with her thrilling recount of the final match.

Head football coach Paul Chryst’s five-year contract was extended through Jan. 31 of 2027.

Andrew Ernst has worked with Team USA Bobsled and Skeleton for the past six years.

According to multiple reports, Bobby Engram is leaving that position in order to become the offensive coordinator at the University of Wisconsin.

The team lost a plethora of different coaches during the 2021 offseason, and it appears it will be that way again in 2022. After announcing that they had parted ways with defensive coordinator Don Martindale, it was reported Tom VanHaaren and Jamison Hensley of ESPN that the University of Wisconsin is targeting current Baltimore tight ends coach Bobby Engram to be their next offensive coordinator.

There are several programs that can attempt to lay claim to the mantra “running back U”, but it’s pretty difficult to argue against the University of Wisconsin as the true home to RBU.

Winning a national championship is a dream come true — but for UW coaches, it’s also a big payday. On top of his $362,000 salary, University of Wisconsin-Madison volleyball head coach Kelly Sheffield earned a bonus of about $109,000 for winning the national championship in 2021, plus a bonus of about $18,000 for winning the Big Ten, according to the UW Post Season Bonus Policy.

A University of Wisconsin fan who made a racist gesture directed at Asian-American fans during the UW men’s basketball game against Northwestern on Tuesday has been banned from UW athletic events going forward.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has banned a fan who was caught on video making racist gestures during a basketball game between the Badgers and the Northwestern University Wildcats from buying tickets to future sporting events, the university said Thursday.

The University of Wisconsin has banned from all athletic events an individual accused of “abhorrent anti-Asian activities” during Tuesday’s men’s basketball road game versus Northwestern.

The individual is not a UW-Madison student or employee and will be notified that they are no longer welcome at any future UW Athletics event. The individual is prohibited from purchasing tickets through the athletic department.

“We are deeply disturbed by this behavior and we find it abhorrent and disgusting,” the University of Wisconsin Athletics said in a Twitter statement responding to the video.

University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh is redesigning his administrative team.

UW officials announced Friday that Marcus Sedberry, the senior associate athletic director for student-athlete success at Baylor, and Mitchell Pinta, the National Football League’s director of business development and partnership management, are joining the UW athletic department as deputy athletic directors.

Michigan? It’s just getting good, Khakipants. After some challenging, underachieving times, Wolverines had themselves a thriller of a season. There were big wins over Iowa, Penn State and fine—an early rout of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Michigan captured its first Big Ten title since 2004 and was one of four teams to make the Nick Saban College Football Invitational. Blah blah blah, and so on.

The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s weekend series against the University of St. Thomas has been scratched. The Badgers’ athletics department explained the two-game set was called off because of COVID-19 concerns within the Tommies.

The coming season for the University of Wisconsin promises to be special one for the Badgers. For starters, the players will take the field for the first time on the newly dubbed Barry Alvarez Field. However, because of schedule changes announced by the Big Ten on Tuesday, the conference opponents who will be coming to Camp Randall to play on that field has been completely switched – except for the most important one.

Turning the tide for UW–Madison women’s basketball may be Moseley’s most formidable task yet. The Badgers have had losing records for 10 consecutive seasons.

Jones was previously the head coach at Loyola University Chicago.

After the sun had set and the temperature fell, conditions were perfect to make Wisconsinites feel at home in the desert, and it didn’t take long for the Badger Band to warm them up.

While the Wisconsin Badgers football team is focused on bringing a win home from their trip to the Las Vegas Bowl, a handful of players took some time Tuesday to meet with fans.

If there’s one thing Wisconsin sports fans do well, it’s travel. As the Badgers get ready to take on Arizona State in the Las Vegas Bowl, Badger Red popped up across the Las Vegas Strip as fans took in the sights and sounds ahead of the game.

While the latest surge of coronavirus cases has interrupted winter exhibition game plans, several former Wisconsin Badgers are training and vying for roster spots on Olympic hockey teams.

The University of Wisconsin’s women’s basketball team has canceled its second consecutive game because of positive COVID-19 tests within the program. On Monday, the university announced the Dec. 30 matchup against Big Ten rival Purdue at the Kohl Center will not be played and UW gave no indication that it would be re-scheduled.

Bryson Williams’ life changed in 2019.

The young nose tackle was preparing for his sophomore season that summer when he learned his application to the University of Wisconsin School of Business had been denied.

“That was the eye-opener for me,” Williams acknowledged. “I said: ‘Let’s get working. Let’s get going.’”

The Wisconsin women’s basketball team has called off its game Wednesday against Eastern Illinois due to COVID-19 cases in the Badgers’ program.

“I would encourage everyone to follow the advice of medical professionals and get vaccinated, boosted, tested and wear a mask,” McIntosh said. “Those mitigation measures may not keep us from contracting COVID, but there’s a good chance they will keep us from having a severe outcome.”

The celebrations continued Wednesday for Badger Volleyball after the team won their first National Championship Saturday.

The Wisconsin women’s basketball team has called off its game Wednesday against Eastern Illinois due to COVID-19 cases in the Badgers’ program. The women’s team was set to face off against the Panthers on Thursday at the Kohl Center.

Rashada said he did some of his own research to make sure he was allowed to explore endorsement deals. He also worked with an adviser, Ethan Weinstein, to help secure his first deal. Weinstein is a college junior who represents a handful of college athletes in NIL deals. He has previously worked in the University of Wisconsin recruiting office and interned with agent Drew Rosenhaus.