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.)
The Wisconsin men’s hockey team officially gained another member with the signing of Trent Frederic to a National Letter of Intent, associate head coach Don Granato announced. Frederic is expected to join the Badgers for the 2016-17 school year.
Badger softball pitcher Taylor-Paige Stewart is having a solid season. She has a 5-2 record and is sixth in the Big Ten in earned run average. But she’s also building quite a career away from softball.
The University of Wisconsin women’s golf and volleyball teams recorded perfect Academic Progress Rate scores, according to data released by the NCAA on Wednesday. The scores were calculated for a four-year period from 2011-12 through 2014-15 academic years.
Over the years the event grew into a major fundraiser that regularly attracted 6,000 or more to the UW Field House in conjunction with the annual spring football game. The organizing committee, which began with just Strickler and his wife Ruth, evolved into a 200-person operation and a six-month planning window.
“Butch” Strickler, well-known to Badger fans for his fundraising efforts died Wednesday in his home in New Glarus. He was 94.
According to a report by Sports Business Daily, Fox will purchase 25 football games and 50 basketball games each year starting in the fall of 2017 for $250 million per year. The deal will run for six seasons.
Bo Ryan returned to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville campus as a distinguished lecturer. It turned out to be less of a lecture and more of a nearly 2-hour storytelling session.
On Tuesday, former University of Wisconsin head basketball coach Bo Ryan spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville as the university’s Sesquicentennial Distinguished Lecturer. It was a homecoming of sorts for the basketball coach. Ryan coached at UW-Platteville from 1984-1999, achieving a 353-76 record, while winning four NCAA Division III national championships.
Nigel Hayes will enter the 2016 NBA draft while also leaving open the possibility of returning to the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team for his senior season.
MADISON — Former UW-Madison men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan was the highest paid UW System employee in 2015.
(Video) As part of the UW-Madison athletic department’s “Badgers Give Back” initiative, athletes hosted a special event Friday with patients from the American Family Children’s Hospital to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The “Badgers Go Bald” event ended with haircuts for some players with a little extra help from special guests…
Palmer, a Watertown native, joined the UW staff last season as recruiting coordinator for Bobbie Kelsey.
One season after making a noticeable step forward in getting fans to use their tickets for its six major sports, the University of Wisconsin athletic department slid backward in the 2015-16 season.
Video: As part of the UW-Madison athletic department’s “Badgers Give Back” initiative, athletes hosted a special event Friday with patients from the American Family Children’s Hospital to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The “Badgers Go Bald” event ended with haircuts for some players with a little extra help from special guests.
The University Of Wisconsin Madison has not had a D-1 baseball team since 1991. It was dropped during a period of financial problems for the athletic department although the university brass also used Title 9 problems as a reason.
For the second time this season, the multi-event athlete duo of Georgia Ellenwood and Zach Ziemek both earned Big Ten Conference weekly honors. Senior Zach Ziemek was named Big Ten Men’s Co-Field Athlete of the Week, while junior Georgia Ellenwood claimed Big Ten Women’s Field Athlete of the Week accolades, the league announced Wednesday.
Dana Tackes and Keith Reagan both attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and share a love for Badgers athletics. The two were engaged in January 2015 and Tackes thought to design their wedding invitation like a ticket to a Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium after seeing something similar on Pinterest.
Wisconsin head basketball coach Greg Gard has solidified his coaching staff ahead of the 2016-17 season by promoting Lamont Paris to associate head coach as well as retaining assistant coach Howard Moore and director of operations Kat Vosters.
The fifth annual Wisconsin Sports Awards saw more than 500 people stroll across the famous “blue carpet”, but none drew more attention than former Badgers men’s basketball head coach Bo Ryan, who was making his first public appearance since his retirement.
Following his surprise retirement as coach of the Badgers in mid-December, Ryan and his wife, Kelly, spent the winter at their condo in Palm Springs, California, watching UW from afar as it turned its season around and eventually made the NCAA tournament under then-interim, now-permanent coach Greg Gard.
University of Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez said that ESPN’s College GameDay will take place at Lambeau Field when the Badgers play Louisiana State University in the 2016 season opener on Sept. 3.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach announced Tuesday that Lamont Paris and Howard Moore officially have been retained as assistants. They join former UW athlete Joe Krabbenhoft, who was added to the staff last week following three seasons at South Dakota State.
Former Badgers wide receive Alex Erickson is once again fighting for an opportunity,
“It’s all there for you. If you’re willing to work for it, willing to sacrifice I think anything can happen,” Erickson said.
His 77 receptions in 2015 was one short of the school record at Wisconsin. Still Erickson has been overlooked. No invite to any of the showcase bowl games and no invite to the NFL Combine.
