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.
Alvarez pledged to help, just as the school had done for Badgers legends Michael Finley and Ron Dayne, who earned their degrees after turning 40. Griffith did not have to take a financial hit; UW’s policy is to cover tuition, fees and books for any scholarship student-athlete wishing to return to knock out his or her degree.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department is looking to save $2.8 million during the COVID-19 pandemic through voluntary pay cuts or a reduction in work hours.
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.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there are questions about what a college football season will look like — if one happens at all. Will fans be allowed in stadiums? How many? What kinds of distancing practices will be in place, and how would they impact capacity?
Two months have passed since coronavirus first began major disruptions to American society, and the nation still lacks a clear timeline back to “normalcy.”
Roman Ahcan was named the most valuable player for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s 2019-20 season on Monday.
The conference canceled remaining winter and spring sports on the schedule in March, and on- and off-campus recruiting remains on indefinite hold.
Chad McGehee is fond of a comparison between strength training and mental training, perhaps even more so now that he has been hired as a director of the latter for the University of Wisconsin athletic department.
The conference created its first-ever Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases on March 7. The group, which includes a representative from each of the conference’s 14 member schools, meets weekly with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren. Dr. Ann Sheehy, a faculty member from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, represents UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin officials do not expect to extend for the second time the deadline to buy season football tickets for 2020.
Amid questions about how the coronavirus will affect the 2020 football season and the rest of college sports, senior associate athletic director for capital projects Jason King said UW isn’t changing course until it has a clearer picture.
Agorgeous spring day had finally arrived April 5, and Joe Hedstrom decided to spend it fishing with his brother Eric at one of their favorite spots along Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.
Alvarez, the UW athletic director, told an online meeting of the Athletic Board on Friday that the department is projecting a net revenue drop of at least $4 million to $5 million in this fiscal year.
In the earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s biggest priority was making sure UW-Madison finished its spring semester. As the university works to make that happen, Blank said it is taking the opportunity to tackle immediate concerns — including $100 million in losses — but also prioritize campus safety and prevention moving forward.
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.
The father of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball player Joe Hedstrom was involved in a serious accident earlier this month and is in a trauma unit at a Minneapolis area hospital.
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.
