Category: Athletics

Ryan left the door open to coaching beyond the upcoming season during an interview with the Appleton Post-Crescent on Wednesday night in Kaukauna, where Ryan was a guest speaker at a charity event. “Well, I needed to get a statement out there knowing I wasn’t able to tell recruits I could guarantee them four years and I wanted to be fair to our staff and (UW athletic director Barry Alvarez) and the athletic department,” Ryan said.

The Badgers, who won their first Big Ten title since 2001 with a 19-1 conference record last year, were picked to finish behind reigning NCAA champion Penn State, Nebraska and Illinois.

UW will host the Orange at Camp Randall Stadium on Sept. 12, 2020, and will travel to Syracuse on Sept. 11, 2021.

The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team inked six more athletes to their 2015-2016 roster. Head coach Mike Eaves announced the signings Wednesday afternoon. Joining the Badgers are forwards Tanner Barnes, Will Johnson, Zac Keryluk, and Jarod Zirbel; defenseman Patrick Sexton and goaltender Matt Jurusik.

University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan is casting doubt about plans announced in June to retire after the next basketball season, according to a media report.

According to a report from PostCrescent.com, Ryan said Wednesday that Athletic Director Barry Alvarez told him he could change his mind at any time.

The University of Wisconsin volleyball team tied with Big Ten Conference rival Nebraska for No. 5 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association preseason poll, which was released Wednesday.

The UW Field House is about to get a little sprucing up.

University of Wisconsin hockey coach Mike Eaves is counting on his six-member incoming recruiting class to provide immediate depth and create competition for playing time this season.

University of Wisconsin men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan announced in June that he would retire following the 2015-16 season.

Bo Ryan continues to tease Wisconsin fans by suggesting he won’t be one-more-and-done after all.

Kay worked at UW Hospital for many years before joining the UW Athletic Department in 1994. There she served as a member of the facilities management team.

Paul Chryst was a picture of comfort on the morning of the final day of July, his legs stretched out as he sat in a booth at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago.

Noted: Johannson, who played for the Badgers from 1982-86 and was part of UW’s NCAA championship team in 1983, finished his UW career with 63 goals, 67 assists and 130 points in 148 games played. A 1982 draft pick of the Hartford Whalers, he went on to have a nine-year professional career that included playing stops in Germany, and with three teams in the International Hockey League.

Quarterback Joel Stave rebooted his personal computer more times than he preferred during his first four years at Wisconsin.

The University of Wisconsin’s defensive coordinator has spent the past two years elevating his charges to become one of the top units in the Big Ten Conference.

Jones, a senior inside linebacker, is a graduate transfer from Clemson University.

The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will face Georgetown in a semifinal of the 2K Classic on Nov. 20 at Madison Square Garden in New York, and could get a rematch with defending national champion Duke if both teams win their first round games.

Brooke Ferrell became the third Badgers golfer to win of Wisconsin amateur golf’s three major championships Tuesday when she shot her second straight 72 to win the Brown Deer Women’s Amateur tournament.

Joel Stave hasn’t completely erased the painful memories of a 2014 season that ranged from demoralizing to rousing.

John Settle showed during his first stint as Wisconsins running backs coach a willingness to rely on freshmen and distribute the workload to keep the tailbacks fresh and hungry.

University of Wisconsin senior Courtney Burke, junior Jenny Ryan and sophomore Annie Pankowski are among the 83 players invited to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival, which will be held Aug. 11-16 in Lake Placid, New York. In addition, former UW players Brianna Decker, Meghan Duggan, Hilary Knight, Alex Rigsby, Karley Sylvester and Jessie Vetter will participate in the six-day camp.

Senior safety Michael Caputo and junior running back Corey Clement garnered preseason recognition from the Big Ten Conference, with the two Badgers named to the Players to Watch list for the league’s West Division.

The pair are among 11 tabbed to the Players to Watch list, which includes five honorees from the East division and six from the West due to a tie.

He was hired back in December, but here in July, Paul Chryst made his debut at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago as Wisconsin’s new head coach.
As you can imagine, Chryst was asked a lot of football questions but inquiries about the program’s academic standards held a big part in the conversations too.

Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez says the university is discussing a proposal to allow recruits to verbally appeal with colleges for admission, according to a report from CBS Sports. Alvarez told reporters at Big Ten Football media day in Chicago on Thursday that the UW’s tougher admissions process for athletes compared to other schools has not competitively hurt the Badgers.

The University of Wisconsin’s admissions process is yet again being questioned after another star recruit is lost to a rival school. Dall running back Jordan Stevenson announced this week he’ll play for Nebraska. The decision comes after he signed with Wisconsin but ultimately wasn’t admitted to the university.

“The kid did everything we asked him to do,” said UW football coach Paul Chryst. “There’s a part of me that’s happy he landed at a good place.”

One concern Wisconsin fans expressed after Paul Chryst was hired as head coach was whether UW’s former offensive coordinator, known for his ability to develop quarterbacks and call plays, would build a staff that would reel in talented players.

John Settle showed during his first stint as Wisconsin’s running backs coach a willingness to rely on freshmen and distribute the workload to keep the tailbacks fresh and hungry.

The Big Ten will go to nine conference games starting in 2016, and Delany said the league’s athletic directors are committed to the non-conference portion of the plan: Annual games against programs from the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 or SEC.

Although Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez says that a change five years ago in the appeals process for prospective UW athletes has not hurt the Badgers’ ability to compete athletically, school officials are working to return to the previous process.

Despite spending a significant portion of his first appearance at Big Ten Media Days talking about a player who will never take the field for the Badgers, Chryst didn’t appear bitter on Thursday and even said that he was glad (Texas prep running back Jordan) Stevenson landed at a quality program so late in the recruiting process.

The poll, released Thursday morning, saw defending Big Ten and national champion Ohio State take the top spot. UW (No. 18) and sixth-ranked Michigan State were the only other Big Ten teams to make the top 25.

CHICAGO — Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez says that regardless of where Paul Bunyan’s Axe is after the Badgers’ football game with Minnesota, the loser should get out of the way.

The likes of NCAA and Big Ten champions are on slate for the Wisconsin wrestling team, which released its 2015-16 schedule Wednesday.

The Badgers will offer five opportunities to watch the team compete firsthand with five home meets scheduled in Madison. Things get underway at the UW Field House when Wisconsin hosts UW-Whitewater on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. CT.

Senior Taylor Morey, sophomore elli Bates and sophomore outside hitter Lauryn Gillis traveled abroad this summer. Morey was part of the U.S. Collegiate National Team, while the sophomores played with the U.S. Junior National squad.

Sportswriters are picking Ohio State to win the Big Ten Conference football championship this season, and foresee Wisconsin winning the West. Ohio State won the championship last season and the Buckeyes are a unanimous pick to repeat, according to the poll’s author, Cleveland.com.

More than 60 writers vote in the preseason poll. Wisconsin received 32 of 40 first-place votes.

The man in charge of coordinating Wisconsin’s football recruiting efforts was a three-time all-Mid-American Conference pick as a defensive lineman, was a high school coach in Ohio for more than two decades, has coached at the college level, is familiar with UW’s tradition and the general formula the Badgers have used to win Big Ten titles and has longstanding ties to head coach Paul Chryst.

University of Wisconsin–Madison sophomore golfers Becky Klonglan and Gabby Curtis finished first and second in the Wisconsin Women’s State Amateur tournament in Watertown. Klongland won the tournament for the second year in a row.

We’ve all got standards. Some of us set them high, some of us set them low. But regardless, we all have them. The University of Wisconsin sure has them, and their expectations are causing top commits to find other homes.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Badgers top commit for 2015, running back Jordan Stevenson, was not admitted into Wisconsin, reportedly for academic reasons.

Wisconsin’s four-person contingent at the Big Ten football media days will include two fifth-year seniors and arguably the most the most indispensable member of the offense.

Barry Alvarez scrutinized Paul Chryst’s work as the architect of Wisconsins offense for seven seasons, first in 2005 during his final season as UW’s head coach and then during the next six seasons as full-time athletic director.

Eddie Wajda shot a 2-under par 70 in the final round to win the 114th Wisconsin State Amateur Championship at Erin Hills. Wadja, who plays on the University of Wisconsin golf team, finished at 5-over par, one shot ahead of Matthew Bachmann and Patrick Sanchez.

Eddie Wajda would much rather people forgot about last year’s Wisconsin State Amateur, but this year’s Championship makes it all worth it.

In the 2014 Championship, Wajda, a rising sophomore at University of Wisconsin, was disqualified after submitting an incorrect scorecard after the third round. This year, not only did he work on his math, but he also worked on his putting game on his way to his first Amateur title.

One of the Badgers’ highest rated recruits will not be attending Wisconsin. Incoming freshman Jordan Stevenson tweeted out that his recruitment is officially “open to any Division One program for the 2015 season.”

According to a report on 247Sports, the Badgers coaching staff informed the talented running back Thursday he would not be admitted to the university. The University of Wisconsin has higher academic standards than the minimum NCAA eligibility standards.

Eddie Wajda shot a 2-under par 70 in the final round to win the 114th Wisconsin Men’s State Amateur Golf Championship at Erin Hils in Hartford Thursday. Wadja, who plays on the University of Wisconsin golf team, finished at 5-over par, one shot ahead of Matthew Bachmann and Patrick Sanchez.

Stevenson, a four-star prospect who was considered one of the Badgers’ top recruits for the 2015 class, confirmed on Twitter that his recruitment is open to any Division I program.

Ex-University of Pittsburgh secondary coach Troy Douglas filed a federal lawsuit against the school on Monday, alleging that he was fired illegally. According to the Tribune-Review, Douglas, 49, maintains that the school unfairly fired him one year into a two-year contract.

Douglas joined the Panthers ahead of the 2014 season, becoming part of head coach Paul Chryst’s staff. Chryst re-signed from Pittsburgh in December to become the head coach at the University of Wisconsin, but he did not invite Douglas to be part of his staff in Madison. Douglas was then fired by Pitt.

Running in front of a home crowd, the former University of Wisconsin runner — racing for Team Canada — used a strong final lap to win the gold medal in the event. Ahmed finished in 28 minutes, 49.96 seconds, besting Team USA’s Aron Rono, who finished second in 28:50.83.

Noted: Among the four players who broke par: co-leader Johnny Decker and Ben Skogen, both members of the University of Wisconsin golf team.

The Badgers are midway through an eight-week session of summer workouts, a valuable stretch for a program that returns just 34.3 percent of its scoring and 38.1 percent of its rebounding from the 2014-15 team.Not to mention all the experience that is gone. Frank Kaminsky, Sam Dekker, Josh Gasser, Traevon Jackson and Duje Dukan combined to play 9,896 minutes over the past two seasons, both of which ended with trips to the Final Four.

Redshirt sophomore Connor Senger is no longer with the University of Wisconsin football team, according to a UW official.

Wissports.net first reported the news Saturday, saying that the former walk-on will transfer to UW-Oshkosh.

A night after being inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame and having his No. 4 jersey retired, Favre enjoyed a return to the playing field at the Brett Favre’s Legends flag football game Sunday at the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium.

Cynics might call it the toughest ticket in college football — the toughest ticket to sell, that is.

But the University of Wisconsin will give it the ol’ college try, putting single-game tickets for home football games on sale Monday morning for a schedule that, outside of maybe the Iowa game, lacks a major drawing card.

Noted: Antonio Freeman said the players appreciated the vibrant atmosphere in the stadium. The UW athletic department said just less than 22,500 tickets were sold.

Single-game tickets to Wisconsin’s home games go on sale at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, July 20 that’s according to the UW Athletic Department.

Tickets are available for seven games.

As Corey Clement looks to carry the torch for Wisconsin’s running game in 2015, he’ll also seek to carry on the Badgers’ tradition of taking home the Doak Walker Award.

Clement was named Thursday to the preseason watch list for the honor, which is presented annually to the nation’s top running back. He doesn’t have to look far for an example of what it takes to win, either. Former UW teammate Melvin Gordon claimed the Doak Walker Award last season while rushing for 2,587 yards and scoring 32 total touchdowns.

Wisconsin women’s hockey players Mellissa Channell, Emily Clark, Sam Cogan, Ann-Renée Desbiens, Sydney McKibbon and Sarah Nurse earned invitations to the 2015 Hockey Canada National Women’s Development Team Selection Camp, Aug. 6-16, in Calgary, Alberta.

The six Badgers are among 43 invitees vying for spots on the 23-player team that will travel to Lake Placid, New York, for a three-game set against the United States’ Women’s Under-22 team Aug. 19-22.

Wisconsin men’s soccer head coach John Trask announced Thursday the addition of six student-athletes who will join the Badgers for the 2015 season.

Sam Brotherton (Auckland, New Zealand), Elan Koenig (Los Angeles), Abdul Kooistra (Madison), Isaac Schlenker (Milwaukee), Sully Tesch (Park City, Utah) and Jack Wells (Milwaukee) will join the Badgers this fall.

The University of Wisconsin men’s soccer team announced the addition of six players Thursday, including three in-state products.

While he did not leave Colorado with a spot on the U.S. roster for the Pan American Games, Nigel Hayes returned to Madison this week with two things that will come in very helpful during his junior season with the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.