UW is more than six weeks into its search for Barry Alvarez’s successor to lead the athletic department, an enterprise with an annual budget of more than $130 million. The school has been silent on whether any lessons from the failed presidential search were learned, but it is operating with a similar degree of secrecy.
ohn Powless, who coached the University of Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team for eight seasons and went on to become one of the better senior tennis players in the world, died Thursday.
John Powless played a lot of tennis over the years and was itching to get back on the court one more time. But Powless died at his home Thursday morning after a long illness. The former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and tennis coach, who built a competitive career playing the latter sport at the international level after his coaching career had ended, was 88.
John Powless, former head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team and one of the world’s top-ranked senior tennis players, died at home Thursday after a long illness. He was 88.
“We’ve got it rescheduled. We’ll announce that soon,” Alvarez said on his May 12 radio show. “Notre Dame was able to clear a date, we were able to clear a date and make things happen. We’re going to play that.”
Duggan, 33, is one of the most decorated women in U.S. hockey history with eight World Championship and three Olympic medals. She served as captain for each of the past two Olympic Games and has been in a leadership role for almost her entire hockey career. During her four-year span at the University of Wisconsin, she took home three NCAA titles and won the Patty Kazmaier Award as the best collegiate player in the country during the 2010-11 season.
University of Wisconsin legend and former U.S. national team captain Meghan Duggan was named manager of player development for the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday, the latest prominent women’s player to join an NHL team’s front office.
The renovation of Camp Randall Stadium’s south end zone seating is underway. The University of Wisconsin athletic department confirmed in a statement Wednesday that the $77 million project to transform rows of bleacher seating into indoor club spaces, small loge boxes and rows of chairback seating is expected to be ready for the 2022 season.
University of Wisconsin sports events aren’t subject to Public Health Madison and Dane County’s restrictions because campus facilities are on state land. The Badgers started planning for full capacity at Camp Randall Stadium for the 2021 football season that starts in September but a UW spokesperson said Tuesday the school didn’t have a formal announcement to make. Single-game tickets have not yet gone on sale.
Not long ago, officials from East Side Youth Athletics feared they wouldn’t be able to continue offering grade-school children the opportunity to learn about football.
A scaled-down version of Casting for Kids returns to Madison’s four lakes on Saturday, with the Green Lantern Restaurant in McFarland as the post-fishing headquarters. University of Wisconsin men’s hockey associate head coach Mark Osiecki hopes to raise $100,000 for the American Family Children’s Hospital and the UW Carbone Cancer Center through the outing and an online memorabilia auction.
Officials in the University of Wisconsin athletic department were beaming Thursday.
Why?
The Milwaukee Brewers had just announced they would end all restrictions on the number of fans allowed inside American Family Field, beginning June 25.
That announcement came just two days after the team said it would increase maximum attendance to 50% from 25%.
“(Thursday) was a big day, man,” UW deputy athletic director Chris McIntosh said. “Between the Brewers news and the CDC. That was huge.
Selig, who still teaches classes at the University of Wisconsin, Marquette and Arizona State University, remembers the anger and uproar when they added a wild-card berth in 1995. Folks were furious when the American League adapted the DH in 1973. Interleague play in 1997 was chastised.
A pair of bills being advanced by Wisconsin Republicans that bar transgender athletes from participating in school sports for girls and women would directly affect very few — if any — athletes, according to high school and collegiate sports officials.
Van Lanen grew up and went to high school in Green Bay and then spent his college years in-state at the University of Wisconsin.
“I don’t expect you, if you have a scrimmage, to play it before for a scrimmage,” he said. “But I do expect you play it for a [University of Wisconsin-Madison] Badgers game.”
Ironically, despite being one of the most prolific quarterbacks in the history of the University of Wisconsin, Russell Wilson is 0-4 as a pro in the Badger State.
One of Urbana’s welcome signs touts three national championships won by Graham High School in Saint Paris, where Jordan won four state championships with a career 150-1 record. (He went on to become a two-time NCAA wrestling champion at the University of Wisconsin.)
Part of that journey concluded earlier this spring when he graduated from the University of Wisconsin, fulfilling a promise he made to his parents to obtain the college degree he put on hold when he entered the NFL draft in 2014.
The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted Isaiahh Loudermilk from the University of Wisconsin by trading into the fifth round of the 2021 NFL Draft. Here’s what different draft analysts were saying about Loudermilk
Michael Burcin said he will resign after 10 seasons as University of Wisconsin men’s golf coach.
Paschke’s overall broadcasting career has lasted 48 years. He has called more than 2,000 Bucks games. He also has called games for University of Wisconsin football and basketball, the Milwaukee Brewers and Marquette basketball among other assignments.
The U.S. Senate took notice Wednesday with a resolution, introduced by Sen. Tammy Baldwin and co-sponsored by Sen. Ron Johnson, recognizing the Badgers’ sixth national title.
Noted: Out of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, Milwaukee County ranks 70th in both health outcomes and health factors, according to the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Health outcomes measure length and quality of life, while health factors account for things that can improve health, such as access to education, quality clinical care, healthy food or affordable housing.
Noted: The prime injury culprits are specialization — which the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health defines as participation in a single sport for more than 8 months of the year — and overtraining.
A groundbreaking 2017 University of Wisconsin study of 1,544 Wisconsin high school athletes found that those who specialized were 70% more likely to sustain a lower extremity injury than athletes who played multiple sports.
“Should we really be asking our young kids to do what we’re asking our collegiate athletes?” asked David Bell, associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Wisconsin Injury in Sport Laboratory.
The deadline to apply to be the next University of Wisconsin athletic director has passed, but it might be a month or more until Chancellor Rebecca Blank and a selection committee decide on a successor to Barry Alvarez.
It’s been 10 years since University of Wisconsin pass rusher J.J. Watt was selected with the 11th overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, brought into the league by the Houston Texans on April 28, 2011.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved one-year contract extensions for six coaches, including Paul Chryst (football) and Greg Gard (men’s basketball).
A divisive prospect in the 2021 NHL Draft, Ceulemans is committed to the University of Wisconsin for the 2021-22 season. NCAA rules do not allow athletes to play in the CHL, so the 6-2 defender has been plying his craft in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) for the Brooks Bandits.
Upgrades aren’t going to take place in the near future, an athletics administrator said recently, but a study completed last year indicates UW is researching how to address the issues in the long term.
A favorite to win the championship from the moment they traded for Oscar Robertson, the Bucks expected no problems in the Western Conference playoffs. They “hosted” the San Francisco Warriors in the first round but had to play their three home games in Madison. And while the Bucks had played five regular-season “home” games in Madison, they had to change venues for the Warriors series from the Dane County Coliseum to the University of Wisconsin Field House.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Thursday that she hopes to hire Athletic Director Barry Alvarez’s successor by the end of June.
“Honest conversations, holding each other accountable and forums to discuss race openly are ways our community can work to combat racial injustice,” a joint statement signed by Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and the university’s head coaches read.
Dana Rettke has joined one of the most elite clubs in college volleyball history.
The University of Wisconsin and Texas volleyball teams have seemingly been on a collision course throughout this otherwise unpredictable COVID-19-marked season.
One former UW Badger hasn’t missed a Crazylegs Classic in over three decades, and this year’s virtual race isn’t stopping him. Dan Kelly has been at every Crazylegs Classic since 1987.
The Canadiens announced they called up F Cole Caufield from the AHL’s Laval Rocket and placed him on the taxi squad. Caufield, who played for the University of Wisconsin, won the Hobey Baker Award last week as the top player in the NCAA Division 1. … The Canadiens also called up G Cayden Primeau from the Rocket on an emergency basis to back up Allen.
Nearly five years after a $500,000 donation to the University of Wisconsin tennis program, a family is attempting to get its money back, claiming the university misused it in a violation of donor intent.
The Coyle family has claimed that UW-Madison misused the $500,000 donation they gave in 2016 and intend to get their money back.
Lillard was the daughter of Al Toon, an accomplished athlete at the University of Wisconsin who went on to a decorated career in the NFL with the Jets from 1985 to 1992.
Former Wisconsin Linebacker Chris Borland quit his dream job in the NFL at the age of 23 because of concussion concerns. His experience led him to pursue another passion, advocating for mental health.
Noted: The PGA Tour Champions and American Family Insurance have developed a safety plan approved by UW-Madison, which runs University Ridge.
The ability to pivot at particular points during the 2020-21 season has given the University of Wisconsin women’s soccer team the capability to adapt through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former Middleton High School volleyball standout Molly Lillard, the daughter of University of Wisconsin football great Al Toon, reportedly was shot to death in what police are describing as an apparent murder-suicide Sunday in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Former Middleton (Wis.) High School and University of Michigan volleyball standout Molly Lillard, the daughter of former University of Wisconsin and New York Jets wide receiver Al Toon, reportedly was shot to death in what police are describing as an apparent murder-suicide Sunday in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team finished in the top 10 of the final national rankings for the first time since 2014.
Compared to what he’s faced away from the football field, the challenge Gary Brown faces at the University of Wisconsin is easy.
From a distance it might seem as though Sydney Hilley is almost too good to be true. Not only is she an All-American setter for the No. 1 University of Wisconsin volleyball team, she’s also the program’s first ever first-team Academic All-American. A three-time team captain, she’s also considered a consummate leader with an unquestioned work ethic.
It hasn’t been a normal year for the University of Wisconsin-Madison women’s volleyball team, and it won’t be a typical NCAA tournament either.
Hilley and senior middle blocker Dana Rettke were among seven unanimous choices on the 22-member first team announced Thursday. They were joined by senior outside hitter Grace Loberg and freshman right side Devyn Robinson.
Donna Shalala was born in Cleveland in 1941, served as the editor of her high school newspaper, graduated from the Western College for Women and joined the Peace Corps in 1962.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank understands the importance hiring the right person to replace University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez.
“Leadership matters,” Blank told reporters Wednesday after UW officials announced the formation of a nine-member search committee. “And leadership matters for maintaining the culture and the ethos and the quality of programs we have here.
The head of the search committee to pick a successor to retiring Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said the school hopes to make a hire “within a few months.”
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has formed a large – and diverse – search committee to find a replacement for outgoing athletic director Barry Alvarez.
The search for the next University of Wisconsin athletic director officially is underway, and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank made it clear she understands the magnitude of finding the right person to replace Barry Alvarez.
With Barry Alvarez set to step down this summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has taken the first step toward filling his sizable shoes. On Wednesday, the university posted the job listing, advertising its soon to be vacant Athletic Director seat.
Barry Alvarez’s arrival at the University of Wisconsin was unquestionably a turning point for Badgers football, just as Alvarez himself proclaimed it would be.
Reaction rolled in, including from former players, with the news that University of Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez would be officially announcing his retirement Tuesday.
Barry Alvarez, the University of Wisconsin’s winningest football coach, will retire from his longtime post as the school’s athletic director at the end of June, he said Tuesday.
If UW needed a little swagger in 2014, you can imagine how badly it needed swagger in 1990 when then-athletic director Pat Richter hired Alvarez, an on-the-rise assistant coach at Notre Dame, to turn around a UW football program that had bottomed out by 1989. At the time, UW’s football and men’s basketball programs barely registered on the national radar and the athletic department was bathing in red ink.
