Category: Athletics

Former Badger defensive lineman addresses student athletes.

For nearly eight years, University of Wisconsin men’s golf coach Michael Burcin has seen something special in Jordan Hahn.

Nicole Shanahan, a junior-to-be with the University of Wisconsin volleyball team, has been selected to be a member of the Big Ten Conference team that will tour Japan from June 14-26.

There’s a good chance that the Badgers will be selected for a third straight NCAA tournament on Sunday when the 64-team field is unveiled. If it happens for UW, ranked 38th in the RPI, it’ll be the school’s longest streak of national tournament appearances.

The Badgers, ranked 35th nationally, will make their first NCAA tournament appearance in 14 years on Saturday when they play Syracuse in the opening round in Palo Alto, California.

Greg Gard (men’s basketball), Jonathan Tsipis (women’s basketball), Tony Granato (men’s hockey) and Mark Johnson (women’s hockey) had the end date of their five-year contracts pushed back to after the 2023-24 season.

Snow started to fall as the race started, but more than 5,000 runners braved the weather to complete the 8K run.

For the ninth time in the last 12 years, the average crowd for Badgers games at the Kohl Center was smaller than in the previous season.

While the Badgers had an average announced home attendance of 3,894 last season, their games only had an average of 1,552 people in the seats.

For the season, more than 1 in 4 tickets for a Badgers home game was unused. The average ticket scan count of 12,667 was a 6.7% increase over the previous season, when crowd size bottomed out at an average of 11,870 as UW failed to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in 20 years. Still, the 2018-19 average trailed most earlier years.

The Badgers will open the 2026 season against Western Michigan on Sept. 5 of that year at Camp Randall Stadium, UW announced Tuesday.

The estimated 1,500 fans got their first taste of professional soccer in Madison and a glimpse at the $3 million stadium renovation in a friendly (soccer lingo for an exhibition match) at Breese Stevens Field.

UW Athletics will begin installing railings in Camp Randall Stadium in two aisles in an effort to assess the viability of doing so in other parts of the facility.

Madison’s new professional soccer team will be playing at its home field Tuesday night in a friendly exhibition game. Forward Madison FC will be taking on the University of Wisconsin Madison men’s soccer team.

Ethan Happ added one more honor to his outstanding career with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team on Friday.

Jake Bunz accepted the Hockey Humanitarian Award on Friday, becoming the third player from the University of Wisconsin to be recognized for citizenship.

A little more than three months have passed since Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez saw the football team cap a disappointing season by routing Miami in the Pinstripe Bowl.

New Nat will have gender neutral bathrooms, locker rooms, Rec Sports director says.

Williams, a professional speaker, met Fearing in September at a luncheon for “Leading With Power,” a Madison organization that aims to help men become leaders in their community. He had starred at wide receiver for the University of Wisconsin football team from 2002-2005 and played two seasons in the National Football League.

Doing so, will help institutions move the needle and attract talented people of color to their athletics department, says Frazier, who served for many years as deputy athletic director at the University of Wisconsin Madison, before accepting the job at NIU in 2013.

The International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship opens Thursday, and it’ll have a strong University of Wisconsin flavor.

Cephus, who was suspended via UW’s student-athlete discipline policy when charges were brought against him in August, wasn’t listed on the Badgers’ spring practice roster released Wednesday, and a UW official confirmed he’s no longer on the team.

Although the restructured contract of Wisconsin’s Paul Chryst includes a raise of $300,000, he is set to enter the 2019 season no better than the ninth-highest paid head football coach in the 14-team Big Ten Conference.

Changes to Paul Chryst’s contract include a $300,000 annual salary increase and added bonus opportunities if his program wins a Big Ten Championship or earns a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Suzy Favor burst on the scene with state track and cross country titles as a freshman at Stevens Point Area High School and continued that success over the next three years to become one of the most dominant distance runners in Wisconsin high school history.

Campbell became the first goaltender to go the distance in a Division I NCAA women’s hockey tournament without allowing a goal.

The pain was searing initially, almost unbearable. It dissipated over the course of a long offseason, although it never disappeared.

Annie Pankowski already was part of one elite hat trick among University of Wisconsin women’s hockey players, and she joined another on Thursday.

University of Wisconsin officials are confident guard D’Mitrik Trice and forward Aleem Ford are not involved in a college admissions scam that has resulted in the arrests of several individuals, including celebrities Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.

The Badgers (23-10) accomplished a major mission by getting back to the NCAA tournament after a one-year absence. They’re a No. 5 seed in the South Region in the 2019 field and will open against red-hot Oregon (23-12) on Friday at approximately 3:40 p.m. CDT in San Jose, California.

Annie Pankowski led a triumphant last lap around the LaBahn Arena rink for University of Wisconsin women’s hockey seniors who have never known anything but the feeling the Badgers left with on Saturday.

Lawyers representing University of Wisconsin football player Quintez Cephus dropped their federal civil rights case against school officials on Thursday, but said Friday that they will likely re-file the case after Cephus goes to trial on sexual assault charges in late July.

More than a dozen former Badger football players worked out in front of scouts from all 32 NFL teams at Wisconsin Pro Day.

Before you can see the Badgers’ volleyball team bump, set and spike their way to victory, you have to make it through the front doors, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks those need a little work.

The senior last weekend became the sixth University of Wisconsin women’s hockey player to reach 200 points for her career. She’s one of an elite hat trick of players to score at least 20 goals in each of her four seasons with the Badgers.

Middle blockers Dana Rettke and Tionna Williams and setter Sydney Hilley will travel to the national team’s training center in Anaheim, California, for the training March 16-23.

Meet Ethan Happ, the first Wisconsin player to be named a first-team, all-Big Ten performer three times.

The senior center became the first player in program history to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors three times in his career.

UW earned the No. 1 seed in the eight-team NCAA tournament and will host No. 8-seed Syracuse in a quarterfinal game on Saturday at 2 p.m. at LaBahn Arena. The Orange (13-21-3) upset top-seeded Robert Morris to win the College Hockey America tournament title and clinch their first trip to the NCAA tournament.