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Middle of it all
When
Chris Orr settled in for his first college class at Wisconsin, he was
an anonymous 18-year-old with little clue how quickly and dramatically
his life was about to change.
No. 16 Badgers fall at top-ranked Penn State
In
the Big Ten, every match is a battle, especially when you enter the
season with a target on your back as the reigning conference champions.
Facing its toughest competition yet, the No. 16 Wisconsin volleyball
team fell to No. 1 Penn State 25-21, 25-16, 25-20 in the Big Ten opener
on Wednesday night at Rec Hall.
Battling Badgers earn another draw in second-straight double overtime game
Showing
endurance and grit, the Wisconsin women’s soccer team played to a
scoreless draw in its second-straight double overtime game of the
weekend on the road against Kentucky on Sunday.
Second-half rally falls just short for Badgers against UC Davis
Despite
a late rally that included two second-half goals, the Wisconsin men's
soccer team fell just short of a complete comeback against UC Davis in
a 3-2 loss at Aggie Soccer Field
Statement made: Badgers storm past Georgia
The
11th-ranked Wisconsin volleyball team put its lethal attack on display
to blank Georgia 3-0 in the Badger Classic at the UW Field House on
Thursday night. The Badgers defeated the Bulldogs 25-11, 25-6, 25-15 to
improve to 5-1 on the season.
Wisconsin men's rowing completes season at national championships
Two
boats of the Wisconsin men's rowing team's six entries at the 2015
Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships were
filled with freshmen. Those two boats produced the highest Badger
finishes of the championships as the freshman eight and varsity four
each finished in fourth place.
Kaminsky named Wooden Award finalist and All-American
Wisconsin
men’s basketball senior Frank Kaminsky was named a finalist for the
2015 John R. Wooden Award, as announced by the Los Angeles Athletic
Club on Monday.
Amidst one of the best seasons in program history,
Kaminsky was not only named as a finalist for the Wooden Award, but was
also selected to the Wooden Award All-America Team. He joins Devin
Harris (2004) and Alando Tucker (2007) as the only Badgers to be named
John Wooden All-Americans.
No. 4 Badgers top St. Cloud State 5-0
Fueled
by a balanced scoring attack, the No. 4 Wisconsin women’s hockey team
earned a 5-0 victory over St. Cloud State on Sunday afternoon in front
of a sellout crowd of 2,273 fans at LaBahn Arena.
Five different Badgers lit the lamp in Wisconsin’s final regular season game before entering postseason play next weekend.
Badgers sweep first day of Islander Invitational
The
Wisconsin softball team got off to the right start at the Islander
Invitational, sweeping its doubleheader against Texas A&M Corpus
Christi with a pair of wins on Friday. Junior Taylor-Paige Stewart
recorded her first win of the season to lead the Badgers (3-4) to a 4-2
victory in the first game, then freshman Annie Davis picked up her
second win of the season in UW's 5-4 triumph to claim the second game
of the day.
Badger men’s hockey visits Minnesota in return to Big Ten play
Wisconsin
(2-12-2, 0-2-0-0 Big Ten) returns to Big Ten play for the first time
since Dec. 5-6 with a series this Friday and Saturday at No. 16
Minnesota (10-7-1, 1-2-1-0 Big Ten). Friday’s game begins at 8 p.m. CT
and airs live on BTN.
Badgers earn season’s first victory with 5-3 win
The
Wisconsin men’s hockey team (1-8-1, 0-0-0 Big Ten) earned its first win
of the season Saturday night, as the Badgers defeated Ferris State
(7-7-1, 4-4-0 WCHA), 5-3, at the Kohl Center.
Badgers open season with Intrasquad Scrimmage
More
than 825 fans got a sneak peek into the 2014-15 wrestling season on
Wednesday night at the Intrasquad Scrimmage. There were twelve matches
on the night, the first starting at 7 p.m.
There were three
matches for the 174 lbs. class. In the first, Frank Cousins took down
Alex Yde in a 7-4 decision. Ben Cox faced Jake Stilling, where he won
with a takedown with 13 seconds left in overtime. The winner of the two
matches, Cousins and Cox, wrestled in the last match of evening with
Cousins claiming victory in a 5-2 decision.
Wisconsin 68, Bowling Green 17
"We're
going to enjoy this victory right now. And there were some great
individual efforts. Those are great to see, the unselfishness of Melvin
Gordon for the last couple three weeks as we've gone through the first
part of the season has been incredible."
Wisconsin falls to Ohio State
Despite
several close matches and overall strong play, No. 70 Wisconsin fell to
No. 1 Ohio State 7-0 on Sunday at the Nielsen Tennis Stadium.
Head Coach Greg Van Emburgh explained the team’s struggles with injuries.
Badgers advance to third round
No.
2 seed Wisconsin rolled past 15th-seeded American for its most lopsided
win in the Big Dance with a 75-35 victory in front of a loud, decidedly
red-clad crowd at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
Hite previews NCAA championships
Whitney
Hite: "We're real excited. We're taking six women to the meet next week
and seven men the following week. Just trying to land the plane and
score as many points as we can."
Killer Z's: Zulinick, Zengerle-Pair combines for three goals, help Badgers to 4-2 win
Ohio
State jumped out to an early lead against the Wisconsin men's hockey
team before holding on for a 2-1 win. On the next day, the first period
was all UW, as the Badgers took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission
and held on for a 4-2 win.
Van Hout shines on day two of Big Ten Triple Duals
The
Wisconsin men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have received
endless support from their upperclassmen throughout the season, and day
two of the Big Ten Triple Duals was no exception.
Wisconsin
holds off Vanderbilt 60-57
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Badgers are riding the nation's
stingiest defense back to the round of 16.
The
Badgers held the Southeastern Conference's two leading scorers in check
Saturday night and Ryan Evans grabbed a crucial rebound with 2.1
seconds left to help Wisconsin fend off Vanderbilt 60-57 in the NCAA
tournament.
Wisconsin
Tops Michigan State, 42-39, in Inaugural Big Ten Football Championship
Game
Badger
QB Russell Wilson named Grange-Griffin Championship Game MVP
INDIANAPOLIS
(AP) - This time, Wisconsin got the stop it needed against Michigan
State - and a big break to wrap up its second straight Big Ten crown.
Montee
Ball scored four touchdowns, including a 7-yard score with 3:45 left in
Saturday night's first Big Ten championship game, giving the
15th-ranked Badgers a 42-39 come-from-behind victory over No. 11
Michigan State.
The
race is on: Badgers roll on to Indy with drubbing of Penn State
Montee
Ball scores 4 TDs, defense suffocates Nittany Lions in 45-7 win for No.
15 Wisconsin
MADISON,
Wis. (AP) -- Reeling after back-to-back losses took them out of the
national championship picture a month ago, running back Montee Ball and
No. 15 Wisconsin have rallied for a spot in the Big Ten title game and
a shot at the Rose Bowl.
And as Ball makes a run at the NCAA's
single-season touchdown record, the Badgers are grooming a
late-blooming Heisman Trophy contender.
Wisconsin
Wins NCAA Men’s Cross Country Championships
Badgers
win fifth NCAA Championship
TERRE
HAUTE, Ind. – Wisconsin won its fifth NCAA Men’s Cross Country
Championship on Monday, as four of the five Badger scorers earned
All-America status en route to the national crown.
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Rewind: Turning the page to next challenge key for UW
With
another road test looming in Columbus, Badgers can't dwell on
heartbreaker in East Lansing
BY MIKE LUCAS
MADISON, Wis. -- UW fullback Bradie Ewing exited the visitor’s locker
room at Spartan Stadium wearing a coat and tie -- mandatory for all
players on the trip -- and one dress shoe. An ice bag was taped to his
bare foot.
As physically challenging as the game was itself, it was more
emotionally taxing afterwards.
“I know that I’ve learned something from this,’’ Ewing said of Saturday
night’s loss to Michigan State, “and I hope that some of the other guys
have, too.
McCrudden
named Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week
Junior
midfielder scored game-winner against Western Illinois
MADISON, Wis. - Junior Kyle McCrudden
(Wilmette, Ill.) has been named Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the
week, announced Monday by the conference. The midfielder earned the
award after scoring Wisconsin's game-winning goal against Western
Illinois Saturday night. McCrudden shares this week's honor with Penn
State junior Minh Vu.
Badgers
muscle their way past Phoenix, 1-0
Walls
notches second goal of season as Badgers outshoot Green Bay, 20-4
MADISON, Wis. -- Freshman Cara Walls scored for the second game in a
row, and the Wisconsin women’s soccer team exerted its will over Green
Bay with a 1-0 victory in front of 765 fans at McClimon Soccer Complex
on Sunday afternoon.
The Badgers (2-1-0) extended a pair of streaks with the victory. They
have now won all 15 matchups against the Phoenix (1-2-1) in the series
history, and in doing so pushed their home unbeaten streak to nine
games. Wisconsin is 6-0-3 in those games and is outscoring its
opponents 12-1 during the stretch.
Wisconsin
drops season opener to top-ranked Notre Dame
“I saw some real positive things and obviously
some things that we need to fix,” head coach Paula Wilkins said. “One
of the conversations that we’ve had is that we want to get better every
half, and I thought we played better in the second half and better than
we did against Marquette in the second half.
Badgers
announce schedule for 2012 football season
MADISON, Wis. -- The 2011 season is still two
weeks away, but with the release of the Badgers’ 2012 schedule on
Thursday, the Wisconsin football team already knows the road it will
face the following season.
The Badgers’ four-game Big Ten Conference home slate begins with
Illinois on Oct. 6 and includes cross-divisional matchups with Michigan
State and Minnesota -- in the battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe -- before
ending in a late-season clash with Leaders Division foe Ohio State on
Nov. 17.
Barry
Alvarez, acclaimed head coach from the University of Wisconsin, to be
enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame
SOUTH BEND, Ind.- July 5, 2011- Thousands of college football fans from
across the country will join the National Football Foundation on July
15-16 at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind. for the
annual Enshrinement Festival, which will pay tribute to the storied
career of Barry Alvarez from the University of Wisconsin along with 19
other football standouts as they are formally enshrined into the Hall
of Fame.
Former
assistant coach returns to UW
MADISON, Wis. – Former women’s hockey assistant coach Dan Koch is
returning to the University of Wisconsin, the team announced on
Wednesday. Koch (pronounced Cook) will return and serve as associate
head coach after spending the previous two seasons as the head coach
for the Shattuck-St. Mary’s Girls U16 squad.
Four
Badgers selected at NHL draft
SELDEN, N.Y. -- One
current and three incoming Badgers earned selection on Saturday at the
2011 NHL Entry Draft, which was held at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul,
Minn. Wisconsin's four selected student-athletes were split among the
fourth and seventh rounds of the draft.
Krause
named to Capital One Academic All-America team
MADISON, Wis. -- Elliot
Krause’s strong season on the track and in the classroom has earned the
University of Wisconsin junior Capital One Academic All-America honors.
Krause, a native of Appleton, Wis., was named to the Capital One
Academic All-America third team on Tuesday, as the College Sports
Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced honorees in men’s
track and field/cross country.
DeKeyser
steps down from women’s hockey program
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin
women’s hockey assistant coach Tracey DeKeyser has resigned her
position, head coach Mark Johnson announced on Tuesday. DeKeyser has
been with the program since its inception in 1998-99, including serving
as the interim head coach in 2009-10.
UW
Athletics: Duggan, Taylor named athletes of the year
MADISON,
Wis. -- Following a season filled with outstanding performances,
University of Wisconsin Athletics has selected junior men’s basketball
player Jordan Taylor as its Male Athlete of the Year and senior women’s
hockey player Meghan Duggan as its Female Athlete of the Year.
Taylor was the backcourt mainstay for a UW team that posted a perfect
record at the Kohl Center, carried its 13th-consecutive NCAA tournament
appearance all the way to the Sweet 16 and knocked off the nation’s No.
1-ranked team. A prolific scorer, his steady hand also helped UW set an
NCAA record for fewest turnovers at 7.6 per game.
Badgers
to visit Windy City for Chicago Invitational Challenge
MADISON, Wis. – A trip to Chicago over
Thanksgiving weekend is on the line for the Wisconsin men’s basketball
team as the Badgers headline the field for the sixth annual Chicago
Invitational Challenge, Nov. 25-26, at the Sears Centre Arena.
Women's
soccer releases 2011 schedule
MADISON, Wis. - As the
University of Wisconsin women's soccer team looks to reach the NCAA
tournament for the third year in a row, its 2011 schedule, released by
head coach Paula Wilkins on Thursday, features a level of competition
that will serve the Badgers' well.
Wanland,
Lester to compete in World University Games
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin’s swimming and diving
programs will get more national exposure come August as two
student-athletes, Ashley Wanland and Daniel Lester, will compete at the
2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China.
Wanland, a native of Long Grove, Ill., will represent the United
States, while Lester, from Brisbane, Australia, will swim for his
native country. The swimming competition will take place Aug. 14-19,
while the entire Games run from Aug. 12-23.
UW
WHKY:
Women's hockey announces 2011-12 schedule
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey program
today announced its schedule
for the upcoming 2011-12 season. Highlighting the nonconference portion
of the schedule is a rematch
of last season’s national championship game as the Badgers will host
Boston University at the Kohl
Center on October 28-29.
As always, the 28-game Western Collegiate Hockey Association slate
features some of the toughest
competition in the nation, including arch-rivals Minnesota and
Minnesota Duluth, along with North
Dakota.
Soldier
Field showdown against Northern Illinois
MADISON, Wis. – The Badgers’ much-anticipated
matchup at legendary Soldier Field against Northern Illinois has been
scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. CT kickoff on Sept. 17, the Mid-American
Conference announced on Wednesday. The game will stream live online on
ESPN3.com.
The game marks Wisconsin’s first regular season tilt at a neutral site
since defeating Bowling Green, 35-14, at Cleveland Browns Stadium on
Sept. 2, 2006 in Bret Bielema’s head coaching debut.
Hite
unveils coaching staff
MADISON, Wis. - First-year
swimming and diving coach Whitney Hite has hired four assistants to
complete his coaching staff. Carrie Nixon, Shane Whildin, Dan Schemmel
and Evan Bernier have been chosen to help Hite guide the Badger program.
"Overall, the energy of the staff is going to be terrific," Hite said.
"It's a younger staff that will be able to relate to high school and
college-aged kids."
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