University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh is redesigning his administrative team.
UW officials announced Friday that Marcus Sedberry, the senior associate athletic director for student-athlete success at Baylor, and Mitchell Pinta, the National Football League’s director of business development and partnership management, are joining the UW athletic department as deputy athletic directors.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh filled out his senior staff by naming two deputies Friday. Marcus Sedberry will lead internal operations and Mitchell Pinta will be in charge of external affairs.
The pregame entrance of University of Wisconsin men’s hockey players to the Kohl Center ice in 2022 happens amid spotlights, smoke machines and a video board spectacle.
Michigan? It’s just getting good, Khakipants. After some challenging, underachieving times, Wolverines had themselves a thriller of a season. There were big wins over Iowa, Penn State and fine—an early rout of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Michigan captured its first Big Ten title since 2004 and was one of four teams to make the Nick Saban College Football Invitational. Blah blah blah, and so on.
Games originally scheduled for Saturday and Sunday between the top-ranked Badgers and the Tommies were called off on Wednesday because of COVID-19 cases in the St. Thomas program.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s weekend series against the University of St. Thomas has been scratched. The Badgers’ athletics department explained the two-game set was called off because of COVID-19 concerns within the Tommies.
The coming season for the University of Wisconsin promises to be special one for the Badgers. For starters, the players will take the field for the first time on the newly dubbed Barry Alvarez Field. However, because of schedule changes announced by the Big Ten on Tuesday, the conference opponents who will be coming to Camp Randall to play on that field has been completely switched – except for the most important one.
Turning the tide for UW–Madison women’s basketball may be Moseley’s most formidable task yet. The Badgers have had losing records for 10 consecutive seasons.
Former Loyola Chicago coach Neil Jones has been hired as the seventh men’s soccer coach at the University of Wisconsin. Jones, a former New Zealand international as a player, was 81-54-24 and won the Missouri Valley Conference twice in nine seasons with Loyola.
The results can’t be considered shocking: Ticket usage was down 8% for the season compared to 2019, and three of the seven games were among the 10 smallest crowds since 2006, when data for ticket scans started being tracked.
Jones was previously the head coach at Loyola University Chicago.
Pewaukee native T.J. Watt has entered rare NFL company. His name is now at the top of the NFL single-season sack list.
The Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker and former University of Wisconsin star tied Michael Strahan’s mark of 22½ sacks in a season when he wrapped up Baltimore quarterback Tyler Huntley for a loss on a 1st-and goal from the 3-yard line with 23 seconds left in the second quarter Sunday in Baltimore.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team postponed games against No. 17 Ohio State set for Friday and Saturday because of at least one COVID-19 case within the Badgers program.
After the sun had set and the temperature fell, conditions were perfect to make Wisconsinites feel at home in the desert, and it didn’t take long for the Badger Band to warm them up.
While the Wisconsin Badgers football team is focused on bringing a win home from their trip to the Las Vegas Bowl, a handful of players took some time Tuesday to meet with fans.
If there’s one thing Wisconsin sports fans do well, it’s travel. As the Badgers get ready to take on Arizona State in the Las Vegas Bowl, Badger Red popped up across the Las Vegas Strip as fans took in the sights and sounds ahead of the game.
While the latest surge of coronavirus cases has interrupted winter exhibition game plans, several former Wisconsin Badgers are training and vying for roster spots on Olympic hockey teams.
The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team’s game against Purdue scheduled for Thursday at the Kohl Center will not be played, it was announced Monday.
The University of Wisconsin’s women’s basketball team has canceled its second consecutive game because of positive COVID-19 tests within the program. On Monday, the university announced the Dec. 30 matchup against Big Ten rival Purdue at the Kohl Center will not be played and UW gave no indication that it would be re-scheduled.
The latest COVID-19 wave has hit the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program.
UW officials announced that the Badgers’ game set for Thursday night against George Mason has been canceled because of positive COVID-19 tests in the UW program.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not travel to Las Vegas for UW’s bowl game.
McIntosh must quarantine for 10 days.
“I would encourage everyone to follow the advice of medical professionals and get vaccinated, boosted, tested and wear a mask,” McIntosh said. “Those mitigation measures may not keep us from contracting COVID, but there’s a good chance they will keep us from having a severe outcome.”
The latest COVID-19 wave that is sweeping across the University of Wisconsin campus has affected the UW football team.
Multiple sources close to the program told the Journal Sentinel Saturday both players and staffers tested positive in recent days and that the Badgers would be short-handed when they face Arizona State Thursday in the Las Vegas Bowl.
Bryson Williams’ life changed in 2019.
The young nose tackle was preparing for his sophomore season that summer when he learned his application to the University of Wisconsin School of Business had been denied.
“That was the eye-opener for me,” Williams acknowledged. “I said: ‘Let’s get working. Let’s get going.’”
The best tribute to this program will be to remake the upper tier of the Field House in Madison safer with more capacity and comfortable seating. Anyone who has climbed around pillars and ducked under eaves in the upper deck can tell you that it’s not for the faint of heart or physically challenged, especially many older fans.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team has called off its game Wednesday against Eastern Illinois due to COVID-19 cases in the Badgers’ program.
“I would encourage everyone to follow the advice of medical professionals and get vaccinated, boosted, tested and wear a mask,” McIntosh said. “Those mitigation measures may not keep us from contracting COVID, but there’s a good chance they will keep us from having a severe outcome.”
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team was forced to cancel its game against George Mason, which was scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday at the Kohl Center, because of positive COVID-19 tests within the Badgers’ program.
The celebrations continued Wednesday for Badger Volleyball after the team won their first National Championship Saturday.
The Wisconsin women’s basketball team has called off its game Wednesday against Eastern Illinois due to COVID-19 cases in the Badgers’ program. The women’s team was set to face off against the Panthers on Thursday at the Kohl Center.
Rashada said he did some of his own research to make sure he was allowed to explore endorsement deals. He also worked with an adviser, Ethan Weinstein, to help secure his first deal. Weinstein is a college junior who represents a handful of college athletes in NIL deals. He has previously worked in the University of Wisconsin recruiting office and interned with agent Drew Rosenhaus.
The Badgers will play George Mason at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Kohl Center. Tickets remain valid despite the change in opponent.
Nearly 1.2 million people tuned in to watch the Wisconsin Badgers women’s volleyball team take home their first national championship Saturday night, setting a record for the most-watched women’s college volleyball match ever on ESPN, the network said Tuesday.
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team is searching for a new opponent for Thursday at the Kohl Center after Morgan State notified the Badgers on Monday that it can’t travel due to COVID-19 complications within its program.
While the majority of his University of Wisconsin men’s basketball teammates focused on resting and finishing finals during a scheduled week off between games, Vogt traveled to Mayfield to help his community after much of the city was devastated by a tornado Dec. 10.
Chayla Edwards is a defender with the NCAA national champion University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, where she played in all 21 games during the championship campaign.
The Wisconsin Badgers are NCAA volleyball champions. Finally.
In five neck-and-neck sets, No. 4 Wisconsin defeated No. 10 Nebraska, securing the national title in women’s volleyball.
Noted: Marisa Moseley is in her first season as the head women’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin. She came to Madison from Boston University, where she was head coach for two seasons. She led the Terriers to their first winning season in five years and was named Patriot League Coach of the Year. Moseley was an assistant coach for nine years under Coach Gino Auriemma at the University of Connecticut, a national women’s basketball powerhouse, following assistant coaching stints at Denver and Minnesota. She played for Boston University from 2000-2004.
Rettke was named Friday as the National Player of the Year by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, the first Badgers player ever to receive that honor.
The celebration that began on the floor of Nationwide Arena on Saturday night following the longest match in NCAA tournament history, picked up late Sunday afternoon when the team landed in Madison.
With the Badgers volleyball team taking home its first championship Saturday night, teams and players around Wisconsin sounded off online to congratulate them.
Badger Volleyball captured the first National Championship in program history on Saturday. Now, fans got their chance to party with the team.
For the first time in the program’s history, the University of Wisconsin Badgers’ Volleyball team hoists the NCAA Championship Trophy after beating the Nebraska Cornhuskers to earn the title.
Badgers get the job done and go out in style.
When a tornado ravaged his hometown in Kentucky, University of Wisconsin basketball player Chris Vogt was preparing for one of his team’s biggest games of the season.
The Badgers (30-3) will face No. 10 Nebraska for the title on Saturday night. To get there, it took arguably the best effort of the season for the Badgers to get past a talented and driven Louisville team, which finished 32-1.
From other University of Wisconsin squads to professional teams and sports personalities — and even the official “Grit Factory Hat” account — the Wisconsin sports world joined in on the celebration after the fourth-seeded Badgers volleyball team defeated the top-seeded Louisville Cardinals in an epic five-set NCAA Final Four showdown Thursday night in Columbus, Ohio.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has reached the Final Four of the women’s NCAA volleyball tournament for the third straight season.
No. 4 Wisconsin will face the No. 1 Louisville on Thursday evening. The other semifinal match features No. 3 Pittsburgh and No. 10 Nebraska. The winners will play for the championship Saturday.
It’s not every year a college athlete earns a fifth first-team All-American nod in a team sport. But these aren’t ordinary times, and Dana Rettke is no ordinary athlete.
The University of Wisconsin middle blocker received her fifth first-team nod from the American Volleyball Coaches Association, becoming the first athlete in NCAA volleyball history to be honored as such. Rettke reeled in her fourth plaudit as a senior earlier this year, then came back for a fifth season available to athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.
Rettke became the first player to be named a five-time first-team All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, thanks in part to the bonus year made possible by the COVID-19 pandemic. But it was due mostly to her own performance on the court.
The University of Minnesota football team may have laid claim to Paul Bunyan’s Axe two weeks ago, but the University of Wisconsin women’s volleyball team came to the rematch wielding a broom.
For the third straight year, the Badgers are headed to the NCAA Final Four in volleyball after sweeping past the Golden Gophers, 25-18, 26-24, 25-22, Saturday night before an electric crowd at the UW Field House. Wisconsin will meet No. 1-ranked and undefeated Louisville in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday.
Letter to the editor: But some fans use a large bag of popcorn or a large drink that is very slowly consumed as an excuse to not wear the mask at all during the entire contest. I feel this is not in the spirit of the mask requirement.
Chris McIntosh is closing in on six months on the job, and it’s been a whirlwind for the University of Wisconsin athletic director.
Vogt was raised in Mayfield and played his first two collegiate seasons at Northern Kentucky in Highland Heights. His social media feeds were flooded with pictures and videos of the wreckage in his city. Even national news outlets were covering the destruction in the small town of just 10,000 people.
The No. 4 seed Badgers advanced to the national semifinals for the third consecutive year and the fifth time in program history by sweeping Big Ten Conference rival Minnesota 25-18, 26-24, 25-22 Saturday night before a sellout crowd at the UW Field House.
On Wednesday, the Wisconsin men’s basketball team overcame a 22-point deficit to defeat Indiana, 64-59, matching the biggest comeback in program history.
It equaled a game all the way back on Jan. 5, 1976, when Wisconsin toppled Ohio State in overtime, 82-81, an all-the-more impressive win without a 3-point line.
The UW Field House will have a constellation of some of the brightest lights in college volleyball on display as the University of Wisconsin plays host to an NCAA tournament regional.
Letter to the editor: Hart responded to a season-ending injury with a team-first attitude, supporting and contributing to her teammates’ success, while accepting that life sometimes doesn’t work out as planned. Isn’t this what athletics are supposed to foster?
The Badgers were fourth in the conference with six players on the first or second teams. Iowa (nine), Ohio State (eight) and Michigan (seven) finished ahead of UW in number of honorees.
The Badgers’ 20-season bowl game streak will continue against Arizona State in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl at 9:30 p.m. Dec. 30 at Allegiant Stadium. The game will be televised on ESPN.
UW’s freshmen and sophomores never had experienced a normal atmosphere at home or away because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some venues had limited capacity last season and some fans were allowed to attend the NCAA tournament at neutral sites.
