Wisconsin’s most notable gifts to the world include cheese, beer and cranberries, but who represents the greatest export in athletics?
That’s mostly an unanswerable question, but if we try to gauge which Wisconsin athletes are the biggest sports stars right now, we can at least arrive at a list.
Officials say Gawlik worked at the University of Wisconsin since 1994 holding various positions including assistant athletics director and deputy Title IX coordinator.
After 25 years with the University of Wisconsin athletic department, Terry Gawlik is leaving to run the athletic program at Idaho.
Cephus, who last week was found not guilty of two sexual assault charges, has asked to be readmitted to UW after being expelled last semester. Cephus’ lawyers filed a petition on his behalf Tuesday and asked for a response by Thursday.
While UW-Madison has not confirmed Cephus’ readmission because of privacy rules, Coach Paul Chryst and the Badgers say they would welcome him back with open arms.
“Yes, if it’s best for Q, – and it truly is for him – then I know his teammates and I know how we feel. We would welcome him back,” Chryst said.
“I’d love for Q to come back,” said running back Jonathan Taylor. “That’s our brother, and we would love to have him back on the field flying around with us again.”
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team will open the 2019-20 season against North Florida Nov. 5 at the Kohl Center, according to the Badgers’ non-conference schedule released Tuesday.
One day after former University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus told the Journal Sentinel he hoped to resume his education and football career, his attorneys announced they would seek to have Cephus readmitted to UW.
Former Wisconsin running back Dare Ogunbowale said on Twitter, “Now that the nonsense is over, there’s no reason for him not to be on the field with the boys this season #LetQTPlay.”
The hashtag “LetQTPlay” surfaced Tuesday on Twitter.
Former University of Wisconsin star and Sheboygan native Sam Dekker will be continuing his pro basketball career in Russia after spending four years with four teams in the NBA.
The wide receiver tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a story published Tuesday that he doesn’t know if he will return to the University of Wisconsin.
A Dane County jury deliberated for less than 45 minutes Friday before finding former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus not guilty of two sexual assault charges.
In December 1996, (Gary) Poels was hired by UW-Madison as an assistant equipment manager. He has an office at the Kohl Center and is in charge of making sure four teams — men’s and women’s basketball, and men’s and women’s swimming — have all the gear and equipment they need for games and practices.
Column: Such a series between perennial top-25 teams, a staple on non-conference schedules well into the 1990s, has become all too rare in college football. If you’re looking for a root cause as to why fans aren’t going to games, having to pay increasingly big bucks to watch a steady stream of unattractive opponents is a really good place to start.
Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Danny Davis, called by prosecutors to testify Thursday in the trial of his former teammate Quintez Cephus, said one of the women who accused Cephus had flirted with Cephus shortly after meeting him for the first time and later said she was angry with herself for hooking up with him.
The Badgers last month started taking advantage of an NCAA rule that affords them 10 offseason practices to prepare for a foreign trip, which the team is taking over Labor Day weekend to play two exhibition games in Vancouver.
Gard announced Wednesday that Alando Tucker has been named an interim assistant coach. That news came two days after Moore’s family released a statement saying Moore is being transferred from a hospital to a long-term care facility following a setback in his recovery from an accident in May that claimed the lives of two of his family members.
The University of Wisconsin announced that all-time leading scorer Alando Tucker will join the men’s basketball coaching staff on an interim basis.
Surveillance video took center stage Tuesday during the first day of the sexual assault trial of former University of Wisconsin Badgers football player Quintez Cephus.
The study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health looked at whether the new rules passed by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association before the 2014 season reduced the rate of sport-related concussions compared to the previous two seasons.
When Wisconsin and Alabama opened the 2015 season at AT&T Stadium in Texas, some UW fans understandably wondered whether the Badgers could ever face the Crimson Tide at Camp Randall Stadium.
A UW-Madison graduate gave it her all on American Ninja Warrior Monday night.
During the transportation to the hospital, Howard underwent cardiac arrest and has been receiving care by the doctors, nurses and staff at the hospital.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore will be moved to a long-term care facility and will sit out of the 2019-2020 season following a car accident in May that took the lives of his daughter and wife.
A jury of eight women and six men will hear opening statements from lawyers Tuesday in the trial of former University of Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus, who was charged with sexual assault last year involving two women.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore has been moved to a long-term care and rehabilitation facility and won’t coach this season, his family announced in a statement Monday afternoon.
Sex among college students increasingly has raised debate about consent and assault, and that discussion becomes loudest when it involves a high-profile athlete.
Such is the case of Quintez Cephus, a former University of Wisconsin Badgers football player who goes on trial in Madison this week on charges he sexually assaulted two fellow students in the spring of 2018.
Noted: She left gymnastics for pole vaulting after her junior year, and committed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 2018. During college, she was a three-time Big Ten champion and two-time All-American, among many other accolades.
Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman and former University of Wisconsin star Travis Frederick appears ready to return after he was sidelined for all of 2018 while dealing with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a serious nervous system condition.
“That would have devastated most 15-year-old swimmers,” said Sugiyama, now the swimming coach at the University of Wisconsin. “But after the initial shock and disappointment, we focused on the positive — something I’m sure Greg Meehan will be doing — and Katie recovered.”
Former University of Wisconsin soccer player and coach Nick Pasquarello is the new executive director of the W Club and will direct strategic partnerships for the UW Athletic Department.
Football coaches self-scout after every season, whether their team wins a championship or plummets into last place.
Hayes was on track to spend five years at UW, planning to redshirt his freshman year. However, when a teammate was injured, the trajectory of his college career changed.
University of Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor became one of 10 players recognized as a Big Ten preseason honoree Thursday morning.
A knee injury ended his dream of playing football at the University of Wisconsin. After one semester, he dropped out and went to work as a car salesman.
Quoted: In fact, high school and college-age girls and women who play soccer get concussions at a higher rate, and in some cases three times more likely, than their male counterparts, said Snedden, who is also an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
After a standout career at MND, Lavelle attended the University of Wisconsin on a soccer scholarship. In early 2017, the Boston Breakers selected her with the No. 1 pick of the NWSL College Draft.
A look back at some of Lavelle’s biggest moments of the tournament.
University of Wisconsin product Rose Lavelle scored a goal on the biggest stage in women’s soccer, the World Cup final, Sunday at Stade de Lyon in Lyon, France. Her strike gave the United States a 2-0 lead over the Netherlands.
At the time, she was a rising junior from the University of Wisconsin spending the offseason with the Seattle Sounders women’s team, a second-tier gig that welcomed amateur players.
I was a history major in school at the University of Wisconsin and had planned to become a history professor.
Former UW Madison player Rose Lavelle started for the U.S. team and scored the second goal that helped secure Sunday’s victory. UW Madison soccer coach Paula Wilkins coached Lavelle during her time at UW. “I’m so happy because I know she’s living out her dream. But I also know she’s a great role model for these young players,” Wilkins said.
Students and others filled the first and second floor from the beginning to the end of the game, cheering on the USA, and mid-fielder Rose Lavelle, a former Badger, in particular in their quarter-final match against France in the Women’s World Cup.
Assistant Professor Traci Snedden from the School of Nursing: As we watch the Women’s World Cup and the sheer athleticism of these elite female players, what we don’t see is the lagging research on concussion injury in girl’s and women’s soccer. The rate of concussion among female soccer players has been called an unpublicized epidemic.
Badger players, coaching staff and head coach Paul Chryst will teach people the X’s and O’s, drills and even some plays on the Camp Randall field to raise awareness for women’s health.
Kelly (Kennedy) Saurer will be one of 12 inductees in the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 6.
University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, who was released from the University of Michigan Hospital earlier this month after being treated for severe burns suffered in an auto accident in May, is receiving additional treatment in a Madison-area hospital.
Moore is at a Madison-area hospital, but UW officials did not say which one. It is also unclear what specifically prompted the return to the hospital.
The Badgers announced Thomas as the first member of the UW Athletic Hall of Fame’s 2019 class Tuesday.
Two current NFL players and former University of Wisconsin Badgers came back to Madison on Saturday to teach kids the fundamentals of football.
Granato joins the Sabres after spending the past two seasons as an assistant with the Chicago Blackhawks. He was previously the associate head coach at the University of Wisconsin and also spent seven seasons as head coach of the St. Louis Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate.
She earned a scholarship to play for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in Sociology. According to her school bio, she contributed immediately, scoring six goals in her first season to earn Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. She also made first-team All-Big Ten and led the team in shots (73).
Eight University of Wisconsin head coaches received routine, one-year contract extensions from the Athletic Board on Friday.
After picking up NCAA championships in the Men’s 5K race, Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald has been named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year.
In her first career World Cup game, University of Wisconsin product Rose Lavelle scored twice in the United States women’s soccer team’s 13-0 victory over Thailand Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, who suffered severe burns and lost his wife and daughter in an auto accident last month, has been released from University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.
As more Big Ten Conference universities add beer on tap for general seating, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sticking with the long-held tradition of not selling alcohol in Camp Randall.
McDonald will have a go at a fourth NCAA title in his senior year and a place among an exclusive group of athletes on Friday night when he runs the 5,000 meters in his last race for UW.
