University of Wisconsin women’s rowing coach Bebe Bryans was named the Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year, the conference announced on Wednesday.
UW senior Kelsey Card is the Big Ten Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year and Outdoor Field Athlete of the Championships. Card swept those awards for both the indoor and outdoor track seasons.
The University of Wisconsin’s season-opening game against LSU on Sept. 3 will kick off at 2:30 p.m. from Lambeau Field in Green Bay, ESPN announced Tuesday.
Wisconsin’s season-opening football game against LSU on Sept. 3 at Lambeau Field is to start at 2:30 p.m. and will be televised by ABC.
The University of Wisconsin women’s rowing team earned its ninth consecutive to the NCAA Championships after being selected for an at-large bid, the NCAA announced on Tuesday.
Sure, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson took some poetic license in his address to Wisconsin graduates, but his central point remains the same: Being dumped by N. C. State still fuels him.
Wisconsin opens the season Sept. 3 by facing LSU in the Carmex Lambeau Field College Classic in Green Bay. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. (CT).
Former University of Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson delivered the commencement speech at UW’s spring graduation on Saturday, detailing a few instances where the Super Bowl-winning quarterback has overcome adversity in his lifetime.However, some of the details from his 18-minute speech at Camp Randall may have been exaggerated or embellished.
Former Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Russell Wilson headlined UW-Madison’s spring commencement Saturday, speaking to more than 5,500 new graduates.
Chris Borland never intended to be a spokesman for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he retired from the NFL after one successful season with the San Francisco 49ers.
Like others in the University of Wisconsin athletic department, Mario Morris oversees a team. Morris’ group, however, is more interested in avoiding red ink than wearing red uniforms.
Another day, another record for Kelsey Card, while a gamble paid off for Zach Ziemek at the Big Ten Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
The 11th-ranked Badgers finished runner-up to three-time defending champion Ohio State at the Big Ten championships in Indianapolis, marking UW’s best finish since 2010.
Wisconsin Badgers third baseman Kelsey Jenkins has been named to the first team All-Big Ten softball team. Jenkins led the Badgers in hitting (.411), home runs (7), walks (48) and stolen bases (15) this season.
Pitcher Taylor-Paige Stewart was named to the second team.
Wisconsin’s Ashley Van Zeeland was named a Sportsmanship Award winner.
Weber-Stephen Products LLC, the suburban Chicago-based grill manufacturer, said Tuesday it is introducing a line of customized Wisconsin Badger grills designed for the tailgating market.
Wisconsin’s homecoming game on Nov. 12 against Illinois is to kick off at 2:30 p.m., Big Ten officials announced Wednesday.
Nigel Hayes’ schedule this week is a bit congested.
Noted: “There’s no doubt we’re underdogs,” Clark said. “I don’t want to overplay it too much because if you hear that term too much, you might start to believe it. ”
Wisconsin is the only Big Ten school with men’s varsity rowing.
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has brushed off criticism that UW doesn’t pay enough money to secure and retain quality football coaches.
According to contract numbers obtained by the State Journal through an open records request, head coach Tony Granato will make $500,000 in the first season of a five-year contract. His salary will increase by $25,000 in each of the next four seasons.
University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Jonathan Tsipis will make $633,333 in the first season of a five-year contract, according to contract figures obtained by the State Journal through an open records request.
So much for the notion Barry Alvarez was indifferent about the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey and women’s basketball programs. The UW athletic director put any such contentions to rest by opening up the checkbook with the hirings of Tony Granato to lead the hockey program and Jonathan Tsipis to take over the women’s basketball program.
Jonathan Tsipis wasn’t about to skip the opportunity to speak to the executive board for the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association at its spring meeting in April. A sure sign of a fast learner. Five years earlier, his predecessor as University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach, Bobbie Kelsey, also stopped in at the WBCA meeting, but didn’t stick around long enough to speak to the group. That decision would haunt Kelsey throughout her time at UW.
Tsipis’ path to the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach’s office was marked by an improbable series of twists and turns that has taken him from coaching a team of 9-year-old boys to taking control of a program that both he and his boss, UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez, agree is a “sleeping giant.”
Wisconsin women’s hockey defenseman Courtney Burke is taking her talents to the Big Apple, as the 2015-16 UW captain signed a deal with the National Women’s Hockey League’s New York Riveters on Thursday.
Noted: Marc Behrend was the goaltender for two national championship teams at the University of Wisconsin in 1981 and 1983, winning the tournament MVP award both years. Karen O’Malley-Crowley also lettered three years in basketball at the University of Wisconsin. Dennis Tiziani also was the men’s and women’s golf coach at the University of Wisconsin.
Badger coxswain James Roen measures in at only five-feet, eight-inches, but he’s the engine that drives the UW men’s varsity eight crew.
Flarup has most recently served as the director of website services for UWBadgers.com. Flarup first joined UW’s athletics department in 1977 and has worked in numerous roles in her 39 years with the Badgers.
University of Wisconsin senior pitcher Taylor-Paige Stewart was named to the 2016 Academic All-District team in the sixth district, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced on Thursday.
Wisconsin fans continue to prove that they are among the most passionate fanbases in the country.
That was evident yet again in 2015-16 by the fact that the Wisconsin men’s basketball team ranked sixth in the country and second in the Big Ten Conference in home attendance this season according to figures released by the NCAA.
The Badgers had an average of 17,287 fans per home game in the 2015-16 season, ranking second in the Big Ten and sixth in the NCAA for the year. It was also the best average attendance in program history. Advertisement (1 of 1): 0:13
Letter to the editor: One way for baseball to return to UW-Madison is with the help of big-time alumni such as Bud Selig, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball and former Milwaukee Brewers owner. Imagine Selig contributing to a baseball stadium in the manor Herb Kohl contributed to the Kohl Center. Considering Selig’s continuing commitment to UW, maybe someone like Athletic Director Barry Alvarez should ask him.
Wisconsin football fans clamoring for more marquee opponents at Camp Randall Stadium and more night games will be giddy in 2016.
If you’ve ran the Crazylegs Classic before you’d know it’s a lot of work. But at the fourth mile, there’s a group that’s been putting a little pep in your step for the last 30 years.
Wisconsin Badgers will play two night games at Camp Randall Stadium against two Big Ten rivals next season.
According to the UW Athletic Department, the Badgers will play Ohio State on October 15 and Nebraska on October 29. Kick-off for the Ohio State game will be 7:00 p.m. while the kick-off for the Nebraska game will be at 6:00 p.m.
Thousands of runners and walkers competed on Saturday in the 35th annual Crazylegs Classics. Named after the legendary Badger football player Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch, Runner’s World magazine has rated the Crazylegs Classic as one of America’s Best 100 Events.
Former Wisconsin men’s basketball head coach Bo Ryan was officially inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, along with Green Bay Packers all-time leading wide receiver Donald Driver, as part of the 65th Anniversary Class in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Saturday.
The 34th annual CrazyLegs Classic 8K Run and 2-mile Walk Saturday raised money for UW Athletics. As of Friday night, 13,000 people had signed up to participate, and organizers expected more to register Saturday morning before the race begins in waves at 11 a.m.
Former Badgers men’s basketball head coach Bo Ryan was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday night at UW-Milwaukee.
Former Wisconsin safety Michael Caputo late Saturday agreed to a free-agent contract with the New Orleans Saints.
Wisconsin junior forward Nigel Hayes has received an invitation to the NBA combine, according to a source.
Chris Solinsky retired last week. If you do not know his name, or that he is 31 and the first non-African-born person to eclipse 27 minutes in the 10,000 meters, that is understandable. “You can be the best in the world in track and field,” says Solinsky, who abandoned plans of making a run at the U.S. Olympic Trials last Wednesday due to nagging injuries, “and you’ll never be as cool as the backup punter.”
Seniors Alex Erickson, Tyler Marz, Joel Stave and Derek Watt represent Wisconsin in the membership of the 2016 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which was announced Wednesday by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.
(Video) ESPN Madison’s Jim Rutledge shares his take on the upcoming NFL draft in Chicago, including which Badgers players might be in the running.
(Video) Eden Checkol gets a preview of the Crazylegs Classic, which has its 35th run this Saturday.
The Crazylegs Classic ironmen and ironwomen return year after year to navigate the 8-kilometer run or 2-mile walk. What make this group ironclad is appearances in 25 or more of the annual events, one of Madison’s rites of springs.
When, as they have in recent years, 15,000 or more people show up Downtown for the annual Crazylegs Classic, they stand (then move forward en masse) as representatives of the unofficial start of the running season in the Madison area.
Sixty-five years ago, with Jesse Owens and Connie Mack in attendance, the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame held its inaugural induction ceremony.
Former University of Wisconsin distance runner Chris Solinsky, the first man to break 27 minutes for 10,000 meters, has announced his retirement.
Expect traffic snarls throughout Downtown Saturday morning, as thousands of people first converge on Capitol Square for the start of the event, then wind their way west to the Camp Randall Stadium finish line.
Chris Solinsky said he has “always kind of had the mentality of just fading off to the sunset.” Even a state high school legend, one of the greatest athletes to compete for the University of Wisconsin and one of the most accomplished distance runners on the national stage, can’t run fast enough into the sunset to pull that off.
When you see Matthew Hutchins, a junior majoring in history at University of Wisconsin, walk out of the Wisconsin Historical Society with a stack of books, you might not connect him with a swimmer who recently qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
But Hutchins did just that.
Wisconsin senior thrower Kelsey Card is the Big Ten record holder in the shot put and the discus, but the road to the top hasn’t been easy.
The final numbers on the University of Wisconsin athletic department’s apparel contract with Under Armour were staggering when released in October. The 10-year deal worth as much as $96 million was Under Armour’s largest ever given to a university’s athletic department. At minimum, UW will receive five times as much cash per year as in its current deal with Adidas.
Bobbie Kelsey-Grayson, the former UW Madison women’s basketball coach, will join Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County as the interim vice president of corporate and wellness programs, the organization said.
Former University of Wisconsin basketball great and NBA all-star Devin Harris is a secret owner of a company that owns more than 60 Milwaukee rental properties that racked up $193,636 in fines for building code violations from 2012 to 2014, according to sources and records obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board extended the contracts of women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson, wrestling coach Barry Davis and men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Whitney Hite on Friday.
Bobbie Kelsey-Grayson, fired from her position as University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach last month, is staying in Madison and joining the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County.
Former University of Wisconsin women’s basketball coach Bobbie Kelsey has been hired by the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County as the interim vice president of corporate and wellness programs and will start May 9. A press release from the organization said Kelsey will help fundraising efforts and aid partnerships to support its programs. She will help the organization in its relationships with the UW athletic department, the Green Bay Packers and the Milwaukee Bucks.
Noted: At a basketball game against Maryland in early January, the Badgers student section felt inclined to send a message to freshman Diamond Stone, a highly-touted recruit from Whitefish Bay who spurned the University of Wisconsin–Madison and chose to attend the University of Maryland. For a long time leading up to his decision, there were unfounded rumors that Stone couldn’t meet UW–Madison’s academic standards and might not have been able to attend UW even if it had been his preferred choice. So, when Stone headed to the free throw line at his team’s game against the Badgers at the Kohl Center, the UW student section chanted loud and clear: “You can’t read!”
That’s not only poor sportsmanship; it’s demeaning and arguably racist.
Try walking down Breese Terrace before a Badgers football game with visitors from the opposing schools. You won’t believe what you’ll hear. (Article written by Vince Sweeney, former vice chancellor for university relations.)
