The University of Wisconsin athletic department said its relationship with Under Armour is still “strong” as the apparel provider seeks to cut ties with some college teams.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coaching wins leader is part of the 11-member class of 2020 for the UW Athletic Hall of Fame.
“We have the ability to reach a lot of people,” said Turner. “It’s really important for everyone to see it too because I believe that all of us going in there are fighting for the same things and fighting for equality.”
Football coaches and their players are correct when they note the importance of focusing on factors within their control and ignoring those they cannot affect.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison athletes tested positive for COVID-19 after returning to campus, the UW Athletic Department said Monday.
UW in 2016 was among only a handful of Division I schools to add a director of Diversity & Inclusion. Blanford joined the staff in ’17 and was named director in ’18.
The two athletes are now self-isolating. UW put into place a series of guidelines before bringing members of the football and volleyball teams back to campus, the first step of returning student-athletes to Madison.”
Two UW-Madison athletes are in self-isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.
During the University of Wisconsin’s initial screening of 117 student-athletes that reported for voluntary workouts, two results came back positive for COVID-19.
Sadness, anger, frustration and worst of all, no surprise. These were just some of the emotions University of Wisconsin student-athletes Madison Cone and Tyra Turner felt last month when seeing and reading about the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
Wednesday brought news about UW-Madison and its plans for the 2020 fall semester. In a press release, the university unveiled its “Smart Start” initiative.
Although the presence of COVID-19 means no one can guarantee college football games will be played in 2020, University of Wisconsin officials continue to plan for the season-opener on Sept. 4 against visiting Indiana.
Coaches around the country, including those at the University of Wisconsin, were provided more information about how their respective offseasons can look this summer.
Members of the Big Ten Conference’s Anti-Hate and Anti-Racism Coalition were announced Monday, with administrators, coaches and student-athletes coming together to “provide viable solutions” to racism and hate.
“Our goal as a department is to ensure that the student-athlete experience is best in class,” Jackson said. “And I think as you take a look at the strategic plan that we’re working on, we’re taking the necessary steps to ensure we meet those objectives.”
From a star at Stoughton high school to now a senior for Wisconsin football, Adam Krumholz has given his all on the field. But with his community joining the country in a fight for racial equality while battling the COVID-19 pandemic, Adam and his girlfriend Demi Philosophos have found a way to make their biggest impact on Madison.
In the statement released by UW Athletics on Twitter, Alvarez wrote: “I was a college student-athlete in the 1960s. Change happened then, but we are still dealing with many of the same issues 50 years later. We have another opportunity now. Let’s work together to make sure we don’t waste it.”
A petition on change.org with the text of the letter has gained more than 1,750 signatures since Monday.
Former UW track and field teammates Hanna Barton and Banke Oginni were recently having a discussion about what they could do to encourage the athletic department to do more to combat racism.
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and with the 2020 college football season still in question, Wisconsin Athletics still experienced 85 percent of season ticket-holders renewing for the fall.
Recent University of Wisconsin-Madison grads Banke Ogini and Hanna Barton, both former throwers on the UW track and field team, recently published an open letter to UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and the UW Athletic Board calling for a deliberate process to address systemic racism.
Mohammed Ahmed: During my time at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Ferguson riots happened, and they had an indelible impact on how I thought about my interaction with the police. I’ve only been stopped by the police once.
In 2016, my teammates and I went back to Madison to do some heat and humidity training before the Olympics in Rio. We were staying in Middleton, which is 15 to 20 minutes outside of Madison. I asked if I could take the car to State Street and reminisce some of my old days. I went and dined at my favorite restaurant and walked around. When it was time to go back, I took a glimpse of Camp Randall Stadium and my old neighborhood from my five years in the city. I pulled over and slowly drove through my neighborhood for 10 minutes or so. Then, I got on the road and left.
In a story on the Badgers’ web site, football coach Paul Chryst called the renewal rate “amazing.”
The University of Wisconsin will welcome a limited number of athletes back to campus this week, with voluntary strength and conditioning activities to begin June 15.
Football and volleyball players were allowed to return to campus Monday on a voluntary basis, beginning a week of initial health assessments and COVID-19 screenings.
A limited number of University of Wisconsin student-athletes have returned to campus for voluntary athletics activities in a phased approach.
The University of Wisconsin and Notre Dame may very well still play their Oct. 3 game at Lambeau Field as scheduled. But as UW deputy athletic director Chris McIntosh — not to mention the rest of the sports world — knows all too well, COVID-19’s unpredictability means nothing is certain right now.
Abby Roque’s final season playing women’s hockey for the University of Wisconsin and her first with the U.S. national team carried moments both satisfying and unfulfilling.
For those longing for University of Wisconsin sports, well, it raised a whole bunch of questions.Scott Manley, vice president of government relations for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, focused on a tweet by a UW-Madison professor and added his own commentary
The decision, confirmed Tuesday by a UW official, is the first step in getting back on schedule toward a season this fall after the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out spring weight training and practices.
On the heels of a national championship season, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team reached new highs for home crowd sizes in 2019-20.
Wisconsin Badger coaches are responding following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week.
The man whose name has become synonymous with Wisconsin Badgers’ athletics, Barry Alvarez, took a moment Friday night to shine a light on the pain felt by UW’s African-American students, coaches, and staff in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis earlier this week.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey program has lost one of its more beloved alums.
Rob Andringa, a Madison native who helped UW win the 1990 NCAA title under Jeff Sauer but was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in December 2017, died Friday night.
With the sports world on hold, we gave you the 50 greatest moments in Wisconsin sports history over the past 50 years. What about the next 10 that just missed the list? This is No. 59.
There were plenty of eye-popping numbers that suggested the University of Wisconsin football team had no chance against No. 1 Michigan to kick off the 1981 season, but one stood above them all: 176-0.
Crowd sizes dropped to the lowest average on record for University of Wisconsin men’s basketball games at the Kohl Center in 2019-20, even as the Badgers went on a run to the Big Ten Conference title.
While the NCAA’s Division I Council has opened the door for football and basketball players to begin working out on campus on June 1, Big Ten Conference schools are mixed on when they’ll allow them to happen.
Ticket usage for University of Wisconsin women’s basketball home games moved slightly upward in 2019-20, reaching the highest level in the last five seasons.
The 2020-21 version could be a doozy depending on the opponents the Badgers draw in the Gavitt Tipoff Games and the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Those pairings have yet to be released during an offseason complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Andringa died Friday night at his home in Stillwater, Minnesota, nearly 2½ years after he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. He was 51.
We have to wait another year to cheer on Wisconsin athletes in the summer Olympics, but at least we can ride one high from 2016. In those games in Rio, Jorgensen became the first American to win gold in Olympic Triathlon, after she had dominated the world triathlete circuit over the previous three years. Jorgensen, a Waukesha native, didn’t start doing triathlon until she was recruited by USA Triathlon as a collegiate runner and swimmer at the University of Wisconsin, then began training while she worked as a CPA in Milwaukee. Jorgensen retired from triathlon in 2017, had a baby and announced a new goal: pursuing Olympic gold in track and field and eventually marathon.
While the NCAA’s Division I Council has opened the door for football and basketball players to begin working out on campus on June 1, Big Ten Conference schools are mixed on when they’ll allow them to happen.
The NCAA on Wednesday extended a recruiting dead period through July 31 that bans in-person recruiting on- and off-campus for all sports.
Greg Gard’s daily routine hasn’t changed a whole lot over the past two months, leaving the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach feeling like one particular Bill Murray movie character.
By the 25-second mark of one of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey players’ social media shows, reality has emerged: They’ve all busted out laughing.
The COVID-19 pandemic not only cut short the Badgers’ spring practice season, but it’s also created the opportunity for some nontraditional team development exercises.
On May 25, 2019 UW men’s assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, his wife Jen, and children, 9-year-old Jaidyn, and 13-year-old Jerell, were traveling to visit family in Michigan. Authorities said a drunken driver driving the wrong way hit their vehicle, killing Jen and Jaidyn.
Six weeks of training leading up to the football season is an ideal length, University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said, but not necessarily a requirement.
The NCAA has started clearing the path for athletes to return to campus for voluntary workouts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Seniors Alexis Mauermann and Kristen Campbell received two of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s major awards for the 2019-20 season.
UW spokesperson John Lucas tells NBC15 News that while Dane County Public Health’s ban on public gatherings does not apply directly to “units of a state agency,” the university will continue to work with Madison and the county to develop a plan for school sports to eventually restart.
If it wasn’t apparent earlier this spring, it should be clear by now that college presidents, chancellors and athletic directors are prepared to do all they can to play college football games in 2020.
University of Wisconsin officials are on schedule to address the contracts of winter sports coaches during the athletic board’s June 12 meeting.
Vicky Opitz never says no when (rowing coach Bebe) Bryans calls for a favor. And the Middleton native and former Badgers rowing All-American has a compelling story to put behind a message of resilience.
Although University of Wisconsin officials still hope the UW football team will play its full 2020 schedule despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, they continue to work with season ticket holders unsure about attending games in the fall.
When working for the Center for Helathy Minds in Madison, McGehee began meditation training four years ago with a group of NFL players, some of which that were former Badgers.
The COVID-19 pandemic halted all on- and off-campus recruiting this spring in college football, meaning recruits can’t get a complete feel of where they’ll spend their time and coaches can’t make living-room pitches.
Senior multi-events athlete Zach Lorbeck of the men’s track and field team and senior backstroke specialist Beata Nelson of the women’s swimming and diving team were named Wednesday as Wisconsin’s recipients of the Big Ten Medal of Honor.
Hannah Reale is a sophomore at UW Madison, double majoring in Health Promotion and Health Equity and Spanish. She is also on the cross country and track and field teams, and truly exemplifies what it means to be a student-athlete. Together, the men’s and women’s cross country and track teams ran 1300 miles in one week, raising more the four thousand dollars for No Kid Hungry.
It appears the University of Wisconsin’s Barry Alvarez, Paul Chryst and Greg Gard are going to have to take one for the team.
The UW athletic department is implementing a “compensation and work reduction plan” in an effort to offset the losses brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, a move that includes voluntary pay cuts for top-earning personnel such as Alvarez, the athletic director; Chryst, the head football coach; and Gard, the head men’s basketball coach.
