The only female coach of a men’s collegiate basketball program has her name all over the University of Wisconsin record books.
The University of Wisconsin athletics department was given approval to install handrails inside Camp Randall Stadium, it was announced Monday.
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.
From the day the 2019-20 season ended, Jonathan Tsipis understood his University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team faced a tumultuous offseason.
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.
It was a shock, some seniors on University of Wisconsin spring sports teams said, to hear the school had decided not to pursue waivers allowed by the NCAA for an additional year of eligibility.
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.
At the time, we were talking about pushing the start of the Major League Baseball season back a month, the NBA and NHL going straight to the playoffs after a short hiatus, postponing the NCAA men’s basketball tournament for awhile and resuming spring football practice when the students returned to campus from spring break.
Boy, were we naive or what?
With sports on hold amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, J.J. Watt took to social media Thursday afternoon to provide a live weather update from Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin will not allow seniors who competed in spring sports to pursue another season with the Badgers, the school announced Thursday.
The NCAA overreacted in restoring a year of eligibility to spring sports students amid the coronavirus-related shutdown, University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said.
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.
The University of Wisconsin’s summer youth sports camps are the latest items wiped off the calendar by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even the act of training has been upended for University of Wisconsin athletes who have already experienced championship event cancellations and are seeing Olympic dreams postponed by a year.
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.
The University of Wisconsin athletic department is projecting a revenue shortfall of more than $4 million for this fiscal year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a typical year, the brothers would be neck deep in spring football practices and classes at the University of Wisconsin. Jack’s a wide receiver going into his senior season and Bobby is a graduate assistant coach. But the COVID-19 coronavirus and a state mandate to stay at home have made this year anything but typical.
That’s 16 Badgers residing in nine different states joining the zoom group chat organized by Adam Albrecht.
The letter — which includes signatures from University of Wisconsin women’s golfer Tess Hackworthy, the school’s SAAC president, and women’s rower Eden Rane — outlines three requests regarding financial and eligibility relief.
Two weeks after ordering a shutdown of organized team activities because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the Big Ten Conference on Friday extended the quiet period until at least May 4.
Indeed, there is only one thing missing from the array of banners and jerseys high above the Kohl Center floor: Michael Finley’s No. 24.
With the spread of the coronavirus wreaking havoc with college and professional sporting events, University of Wisconsin officials on Wednesday pushed back the deadline for fans to renew their football season tickets for the 2020 season.
Abby Roque will find out Friday whether she’s the sixth University of Wisconsin women’s hockey player to win the Patty Kazmaier Award.
Shortly after meeting with his University of Wisconsin volleyball team as spring practice was shut down and the players headed out for spring break, Sheffield started feeling sick with symptoms distressingly similar to those associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Dana Rettke of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team has been named one of 10 finalists for the 90th James E. Sullivan Award, the American Athletic Union announced Monday.
John Erickson, the men’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin from 1959-67 and the first general manager of the Milwaukee Bucks, has passed away.
Erickson died Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 92.
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.
The Crazylegs Classic, a running and walking event that raises money for the University of Wisconsin athletic department, won’t take place this year.
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.”
The Sheboygan Lutheran boys basketball team’s coaches had the film already rolling for Randolph, its scheduled opponent in Saturday’s sectional final.
“The safety and well-being of our student-athletes, staff and fans is our highest priority,” University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic director Barry Alvarez said in a statement. “We fully support the Big Ten Conference’s move to cancel conference-related sports events and activities for the remainder of the school year.”
“The decision was made in consultation with local and state public health officials to discourage and limit large gatherings in light of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation. Many other sporting events and tournaments across the country have also canceled their events, including the Big Ten and NCAA tournament,” Lovicott wrote in a release.
The University of Wisconsin football program will not host unofficial recruit visits this spring until further notice.
But there will be no postseason for the red-hot Badgers, whose 2019-20 campaign ended abruptly Thursday when the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments were canceled due to concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Sports in general are on hold or in question across the U.S. as pro, college and high school leagues try to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The WIAA boys’ basketball tournament will go on as planned at the Kohl Center, however, the number of tickets allotted to each team headed to the WIAA boys’ basketball tournament will be limited, the University of Wisconsin announced Thursday morning.
Penn State, Swarthmore, West Virginia’s Marshall University, the University of Virginia, the University of Tennessee system and the University of Wisconsin at Madison joined the rapidly expanding list of schools announcing plans to send students home and hold classes remotely.
“There’s a potential of closing the campus down,” Alvarez said, explaining he had just received an email from deputy athletic director Chris McIntosh alerting him of the meeting of senior staff. “I’m not exactly sure.”
The NCAA took the unprecedented step Wednesday of closing the doors of its March Madness basketball tournaments and other championship events to most spectators in response to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Spring practices start Tuesday for the University of Wisconsin Badgers football team.
At the end of an emotional news conference Saturday afternoon at Indiana, the three men sitting to the left of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Greg Gard put in some plugs for their boss.
Letter to the editor: UW-Madison needs to ring the arena floor with students, making the Kohl Center a tough place for visitors to play.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team has to share its first Big Ten regular-season championship in five years.
It is not clear why the team is offering a promotion with a school outside of the state.
In the depths of the Kohl Center, home of the University of Wisconsin’s Badgers men’s hockey team, another week has ended much like the one before it — and the one before that.
In April 2015, University of Wisconsin star forward Frank Kaminsky was named Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year. Kaminsky, who had just led the Badgers to two straight Final Four appearances, became the first Wisconsin player to ever receive the award.
University of Wisconsin senior center Abby Roque was named Wednesday as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association offensive player of the year.
Rick Giles, the president of event promoter Gazelle Group, said he wants the Holiday Face-Off that will feature the University of Wisconsin to be the top college hockey event of the season.
Whitted, who played for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders during his NFL career, replaces Ted Gilmore, who left UW for Michigan State last month.
After high school, Williams was recruited by West Virginia University, the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana’s Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Connecticut, the University of Iowa, Virginia’s Old Dominion University and more, according to a 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer profile.
More spectators used their University of Wisconsin football tickets for games at Camp Randall Stadium in 2019 than the year before.
The Badgers will open spring practices on Tuesday, March 10, and have another on Thursday, March 12. After taking a week off for the university’s spring break, UW gets back on the field Sunday, March 22.
They were the longest five seconds of his life.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus stood inside a Madison, Wis., courtroom six months ago, on trial for two sexual assault charges. As Judge William Hanrahan prepared to read the verdict, a bevy of thoughts suddenly raced through Cephus’ mind.
Tight end Luke Benzschawel has played his final football game for the University of Wisconsin.
The graduate of Grafton High School announced via Twitter on Monday he has decided to quit playing because of lingering issues with his surgically repaired right knee.
Noted: Heiden said afterward he didn’t relish the idea of being on cereal boxes or other forms of publicity. He did what he could to return to a quiet life and obtained his medical degree. He first attended the University of Wisconsin and then completed his undergrad work at Stanford University before completing his medical degree in 1991. He became an orthopedist like his father, Jack Heiden.
When UW Athletics Director of Inclusion Sheridan Blanford joined the university in August 2017, she was at the forefront of Diversity and Inclusion efforts in collegiate sports.
When UW Athletics Director of Inclusion Sheridan Blanford joined the university in August 2017, she was at the forefront of Diversity and Inclusion efforts in collegiate sports.
One of the sayings that Mark Johnson is fond of using as coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team is that every game has a story. With one game, however, that is a dramatic understatement.
