Category: Athletics

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.

Most employees will participate in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development’s Work-Share program (pending approval) and have their work hours reduced by either 20 or 50 percent.

In the proposed plan, the department’s highest-earning employees will be asked to take a “voluntarily” 15-percent reduction in pay over the next six months.

On any list of the top 50 sports moments in the United States over the past 50 years, Miracle On Ice will inevitably be near the top, if not No. 1.

There are many uncertainties surrounding the 2020 college football season. Now, Badger football fans are struggling with a tough decision, whether to renew their tickets with the deadline on Monday.

University of Wisconsin officials do not expect to extend for the second time the deadline to buy season football tickets for 2020.

There are four players from the University of Wisconsin-Madison considered likely to be picked in the draft.

The decision to cancel spring sports on the NCAA level has caused some issues for the organization however, as college athletes across the country weren’t able to compete in an entire year of eligibility. For graduating seniors, seeing their final season disappear suddenly can be devastating.

Another Saturday to Jump Around in Wisconsin — but this Saturday was extra special, as UW Credit Union announced Taylor will become their first-ever brand ambassador.

Furloughed employees have since returned to work, Richards said, but eight races the company was helping with have been called off this spring, including the iconic Crazylegs Classic, a fundraiser for University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletics. The 8-kilometer race draws elite college athletes and those who run reluctantly.

The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program, which lost two members of its extended family last May, suffered another blow this month.

If the WIAA decides to have a spring sports season, it won’t be able to host the state championships planned at the University of Wisconsin as originally scheduled.

In a move that wasn’t surprising, University of Wisconsin officials announced last week they had canceled all Badgers sports camps through Aug. 15.

That move, made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, will make evaluating recruits more difficult for UW coaches.

The WIAA has confirmed that no high school state tournament action will take place at UW-Madison this spring. The school recently announced the cancellation of campus events through June 30th, which eliminated any possibility for state tournament action on campus.

Think back to a month ago, when the sports world was first put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The University of Wisconsin athletes whose final year of eligibility was wiped way when the coronavirus pandemic shut down spring sports will not get to make up that lost season – despite NCAA guidance that would have let them return.

Officials within the University of Wisconsin athletic department are preparing for the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic could affect the 2020 college football season and other fall sports.

That’s 16 Badgers residing in nine different states joining the zoom group chat organized by Adam Albrecht.

An SSM Health doctor and a UW Health worker have tested positive for the new coronavirus, and close contacts are being notified, the organizations said Friday.

Kepler, a Verona native and former captain of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, has some heavy matters on her plate. Should she continue her hockey career? Is it time to move on in life?

When the NCAA’s championship cancellation because of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus happened last Thursday, Badgers players started to scatter almost immediately. Classes after spring break are moving online. Facilities athletes use for training are off-limits for the time being.

He explained that the cancellations of sporting events was especially difficult because the players and coaches “pour their hearts and souls” into their games.“It’s a shame it had to end this way.”