Coach Tony Granato and his staff have been kicking the tires on an offseason trip for the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team, but the destination took a turn in the past two months.
Shanahan, a junior middle blocker, departed Wednesday with her University of Wisconsin volleyball teammates for a 12-day trip to Europe. And when the rest of the team heads for home from Rome on June 17, she will take off for Japan to join a team of Big Ten Conference players touring that country through June 26.
Gordon is set to co-host a youth football clinic June 15 at UW’s McClain Center along with former UW teammate James White, who’s fresh off another Super Bowl victory with the New England Patriots.
Even though it’s been over four years since Melvin Gordon last suited up for the University of Wisconsin, it still holds a special place in his heart, and the Los Angeles Chargers running back is excited to return to Madison and pass on his knowledge to the next generation of football players.
Noted: If you decide to head to Madison, the home course for the University of Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s golf teams doesn’t disappoint.
Statement: The entire Moore and Barnes family would like to thank everyone for their continued prayers and well-wishes. The love and support from people all over the country has been heartwarming and truly appreciated. Howard is taking steps toward his recovery every day.
“The entire Moore and Barnes family would like to thank everyone for their continued prayers and well-wishes. The love and support from people all over the country has been heartwarming and truly appreciated. Howard is taking steps toward his recovery every day,” according to the statement.
Many have asked what they can do to help. In lieu of sending flowers or cards – the family is accepting donations to The Moore Foundation.
Designs for a proposed hotel near the Kohl Center, which would be surrounded on all sides by cars, bikes and pedestrians, received a final nod of approval from the Madison Urban Design Commission Wednesday. It would sit alongside the Southwest Commuter Path and next to East Campus Mall, with a vehicle entry on Regent Street.
The fundraiser, organized by UW Madison’s hockey coach Mark Osiecki, combines Osiecki’s love for fishing with his passion for helping others.
The University of Wisconsin on Thursday announced the kickoff times for five of the Badgers’ football games this fall.
Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore continues to make progress from injuries suffered in an automobile accident that claimed the lives of his wife and daughter.
University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore and his son are on the road to recovery after the horrific Michigan car crash that killed Moore’s wife and daughter.
Jennifer Moore, the wife of University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s assistant basketball coach Howard Moore, was killed in a multiple vehicle crash caused by a wrong-way driver on M-14 in Michigan on Saturday, May 25, 2019 , according to Michigan State Police.
“I’m thankful he’s alive. But he’s going to need support from our community for many, many years to come,” says Michael Johnson, a family friend of Moore, who visited him in the hospital on Sunday.
Police: The family was hit by a wrong-way driver.
The University of Wisconsin said Monday assistant men’s basketball coach Howard Moore was up and walking at a hospital after a weekend automobile wreck in Michigan that killed his wife and daughter.
Howard Moore, his family were struck by a car going the wrong way on a highway outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Moore and his son, Jerrell, survived, although the severity of their injuries remain unclear.
The wife and daughter of University of Wisconsin assistant basketball coach Howard Moore were killed in a head-on collision Saturday in Michigan.
Noted: When Barry Alvarez became head football coach at the University of Wisconsin, the Badgers hadn’t had a winning season since 1984. But from 1990 to 2005, he turned the program around, bringing it to its first Rose Bowl in 30 years and winning that game in 1993 and then two more. Today, he’s the UW athletics director, overseeing a program that has enjoyed sustained success in football and basketball, along with cross country and women’s hockey.
University of Wisconsin sophomore Alissa Niggemann broke the school record in the steeplechase late Friday night at the NCAA West Preliminary Track and Field Championships en route to qualifying for the NCAA championships.
University of Wisconsin officials were still reeling Sunday in the wake of the automobile crash that one day earlier claimed the lives of the wife and daughter of men’s basketball assistant Howard Moore.
If a trend continues, the University of Wisconsin soon will be in the minority among Big Ten Conference schools in beer sales at athletic events.
Jerell Moore, the son of University of Wisconsin men’s basketball assistant coach Howard Moore, was released from a Michigan hospital on Monday, according to school officials.
University of Wisconsin junior Oliver Hoare won his section in the 1,500 in a time of 3:44.60 at the NCAA West preliminary track and field championships on Thursday in Sacramento, California.
After spending most of her basketball career connected to Purdue, first as a player and then as an assistant coach, Wisdom-Hylton decided to seek her fortune in the world outside of West Lafayette.
The University of Wisconsin women’s rowing team was one of six Big Ten Conference teams to earn bids Tuesday to the May 31-June 2 NCAA championships in Indianapolis.
University of Wisconsin junior Dana Rettke has been named to the 14-player roster for the U.S. Women’s National Team that will open play in the FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Ruse, Bulgaria.
For the past year or so, organizers have been working with park staff to prepare Wisconsin’s busiest state park for the 2019 Big Ten Women’s Rowing Championships. It’s the first time the event has been outside Indianapolis since 2010.
Bringing the Big Ten Conference women’s rowing championships to Devil’s Lake State Park on Sunday is the culmination of years of wishing, hoping and planning on the part of University of Wisconsin officials.
All told, there are nine Wisconsinites on the team that plays Notre Dame on Friday night in the first round of the NCAA tournament’s Norman regional.
Projects to clean up the exterior of the University of Wisconsin Field House and construct a new plaza outside its south doors have been given a thumbs-up.
He said “Ultimate Tag” takes a childhood game to extreme levels with “insane obstacles” and “incredible athletes. The show is expected to launch in early 2020.
UW (40-12), making its third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance for the first time in program history, faces Notre Dame (36-16) at 6 p.m. Friday in the four-team, double-elimination regional in Norman, Oklahoma. The game is on ESPN.
It was going to take a special proposal for the Big Ten Conference women’s rowing championships to leave Indianapolis. The University of Wisconsin came up with one, and eight Big Ten rowing teams will dip their shells into the waters of Devil’s Lake State Park on Sunday in Baraboo.
Silver and bronze were the medal colors on the final day for the University of Wisconsin track teams at the Big Ten Conference outdoor championships Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa.
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.
J.J. Watt is returning to the University of Wisconsin, where he played football his sophomore and junior years before being drafted.
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.
Thousands of runners hit the rainy streets Saturday morning for the 38th annual Crazylegs Classic. The 8K run and 2-mile walk started at Library Mall and continued through the UW-Madison campus.
Noted: Sheridan Blanford, director of inclusion for the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has attended the forum across the years and says that she always leaves inspired.
“I love the Inclusion Forum because it brings a good majority of people who are really invested in this work to one space, and we all are trying to figure out how we can be better in our selective areas and it’s just really great to be around a lot of like-minded, extremely progressive people that really want to see our spaces be better,” she said. “A lot of these people come and figure out how to take this back to cater it toward their respective jobs, but this is my job. So I get to do it everyday and I always walk away feeling like my tool belt is set and full and ready to go.”
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.
Back in his playing days with the University of Wisconsin football team, Joe Thomas used to look forward to checking out the Crazylegs Classic, encouraging the participants in his role as a spectator.
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 University of Wisconsin has chosen a new leader of its famous marching band.
Corey Pompey, director of athletic bands and associate director of bands at the University of Nevada, Reno, starts in July.
Letter to the editor: I was appalled that UW-Madison will be doing a trial on railings in four sections at Camp Randall. Why are they doing a trial run they know the railings are sorely needed?
Andrew Watson, MD, MS, presented a research abstract looking at the connection between poor sleep habits and injury rates in some college athletes at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in Houston.
Getting a good night’s sleep is an issue for many college athletes, who can suffer from insufficient sleep duration and poor sleep quality. Watson and his team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison wanted to evaluate the effects of poor sleep on in-season injury in male and female college athletes.
The school entered bids to host a regional in 2021 and 2022, officials confirmed this week. The host sites for 2020 and 2021 events are expected to be announced by the NCAA on Thursday or Friday.
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.
Responding to fan requests for hand rails in aisles of the seating sections at Camp Randall Stadium, the University of Wisconsin athletic department has launched a test project for next season.
