Category: Athletics

Officially, first-year coach Jonathan Tsipis has six freshmen on his University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team roster.

Senior rower Maddie Wanamaker (Neenah, Wisconsin), and former Badgers Monica Whitehouse (Muskego, Wisconsin) and Helena Randle (Brookline, Massachusetts) will make their international debuts this summer when they compete at the 2016 Senior, Under 23 and Junior World Rowing Championships scheduled for August 21-28 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Wisconsin women’s basketball team will play 14 non-conference games during the 2016-17 season, first-year head coach Jonathan Tsipis announced Wednesday.

Jonathan Tsipis will make his University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coaching debut on the road against UNC Charlotte on Nov. 11.

University of Wisconsin senior Rose Lavelle has been named to the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy watch list for the second season in a row.

The 2016 Maui Jim Maui Invitational Championship Round bracket was announced Tuesday, which includes Wisconsin taking on Tennessee in the tournament opener.

Slideshow: 20 athletes with Wisconsin ties will be competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

The University of Wisconsin softball program announced on Monday the hiring of Danielle Zymkowitz as a new assistant coach.

Four years ago while competing for the University of Wisconsin, Alev Kelter imagined herself as an Olympian.She just didn’t know which sport.

Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy is working with some different teammates this year.

One of the guiding principles of the University of Wisconsin volleyball program is to become comfortable being uncomfortable. No one embraces that approach more than senior setter Lauren Carlini.

The three members of Wisconsin’s 2017 freshman class — guards Brad Davison and Kobe King and forward Nathan Reuvers — can’t remember a time during which UW wasn’t a Big Ten contender and didn’t have a standing invitation to join the NCAA Tournament field.

Zach Snider and Olin Hacker will represent UW and the USA at the International Association of Athletics Federation World Junior Championships. Both runners will compete in the 5000 meter run in Poland next week.

University of Wisconsin senior running back Corey Clement landed on the watch list for the Doak Walker Award on Thursday.

Guard Kobe King committed to Wisconsin before the start of the 2015-’16 college basketball season.

Pokemon Go has swept the nation and become the newest craze this week. So when Instagram user dongruibai posted a photoshopped image of Bucky Badger in the world’s hottest mobile app, the University of Wisconsin’s Twitter account picked up the image and posted it.

The University of Wisconsin women’s tennis program announced Tuesday the hiring of Megan Falcon as an assistant coach.

First-year Wisconsin women’s basketball head coach Jonathan Tsipis has completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Craig Carter as an assistant coach.

Wisconsin coach Greg Gard and his staff have added an integral piece to their 2017 freshman class, from a state that has provided the Badgers with several talented players in recent seasons.

Wisconsin’s daunting 2016 schedule no doubt will dissected in the weeks leading to the Sept. 3 opener against LSU.

University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Jonathan Tsipis completed his coaching staff with the hiring of Craig Carter as an assistant coach, Tsipis announced Monday.

It is perhaps inevitable that the members of the University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s 2017 recruiting class would form strong bonds over the course of their careers.

University of Wisconsin seniors Vince Biegel and Dan Voltz were added to preseason watch lists for major awards Friday.

Kendra Van Leeuwen, a freshman guard on the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team, has been selected to play for the Canadian under-18 national team that will compete July 13-17 at the FIBA Americas U18 Women’s Championship in Valdivia, Chile.

Some people think NBA players, with their stop-and-start quickness and above-the-rim acrobatics, are the best athletes in the world. Others think soccer players, with their speed, endurance and foot-eye coordination, or hockey players, who do much of the above on skates, are the best.

Three of UW volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield’s protégés — Julie Mikaelsen, Dominique Thompson and Deme Morales — spent much of the past year playing professionally in Denmark and trying to instill the Badgers’ approach to the sport.

Jared Berggren didn’t grow up in Wisconsin, but that didn’t stop the former Badgers basketball player from feeling like a favorite son earlier this week when the Milwaukee Bucks announced the big man would suit up for their Las Vegas Summer League entry.

On an offensive line that struggled for the majority of the 2015 season, Michael Deiter emerged as a bright spot for the University of Wisconsin.

Corey Clement was named to the Maxwell Award watch list Tuesday, the first of many preseason award lists to be released in the coming days.

No University of Wisconsin football player has ever won the Bednarik Award, which has been given to the nation’s top defensive player since 1995.

A strained Achilles tendon derailed Greg Stiemsma’s hopes of making the Orlando Magic and playing another season in the NBA last October.

Wisconsin seniors Vince Biegel and Corey Clement are getting early looks for two of college football’s most prestigious prizes.

Kelcy McKenna, the head women’s tennis coach at New Mexico, has been named the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s tennis team, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced Friday.

Cierra Runge is officially Rio bound.An incoming transfer that will be a redshirt sophomore for the Wisconsin swimming team this fall, Runge received official word from U.S. Swimming on Saturday that she had earned a spot on its team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Kelsey Card’s Olympic dreams came true after the University of Wisconsin senior finished third in the discus at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials to earn a spot on Team USA for the 2016 Rio Summer Games.

As if winning a national championship wasn’t enough, former University of Wisconsin track and field athlete Kelsey Card felt like she had a lot more left in the tank.

The UW athletic department will be making a major change Friday when it moves from adidas to Under Armour for its apparel.

Two nights after taking third place in a race at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, incoming University of Wisconsin transfer Cierra Runge finished fifth in her next attempt to qualify for this summer’s Rio games.

These are hardly the dog days of summer for the University of Wisconsin athletic department.

The event will celebrate the start of the contract between the athletic department and Under Armour. Starting at 10 tonight, fans will get to preview the new gear and have the chance to meet Barry Alvarez and others in the athletic department. Then at midnight, fans will be able to buy new Under Amour Badger gear from Bucky’s Locker Room at the stadium.

University of Wisconsin senior Lauren Carlini has been named to the U.S. women’s volleyball team that will play in the Pan American Cup July 2-10 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ivy Martin got things off and running for Badgers at the 2016 U.S. Swimming Olympic Team Trials with a lifetime-best performance in the 100-meter butterfly on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska.

Ivy Martin got things off and running for Badgers at the 2016 U.S. Swimming Olympic Team Trials with a lifetime-best performance in the 100-meter butterfly on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Minnesota Wild picked University of Wisconsin center Luke Kuninin the first round of the National Hockey League draft Friday night.

The University of Wisconsin on Friday named junior women’s hockey goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens as the school’s Female Athlete of the Year and senior men’s track and field standout Zach Ziemek as its Male Athlete of the Year.

Former Badgers Jeff Duckworth and Pat Muldoon have joined UW as graduate assistants for the 2016 season after former offensive lineman Al Johnson joined the staff in the same capacity this spring.

Life for Bo Ryan these days consists of a lot of time on the golf course.

The University of Wisconsin Badger football coaches and players swapped their red and white out for pink on Wednesday. They partnered with the Susan G. Komen Foundation in south central Wisconsin to host the seventh annual Football 101.

Jonathan Tsipis hasn’t been the head coach of the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball program for very long, but he’s made one thing very clear in the time he’s had so far.

University of Wisconsin track and field standout Kelsey Card has been nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced Tuesday.

The U.S. Olympic team trials for swimming kick off next week in Omaha, Nebraska.