Tina Kuhle will not be returning as head coach for the UW-Platteville women’s basketball team for the 2010-11 season. Paul Erickson, sports information director, said her contract would not be renewed.
I think it is fair to say that when most people think of Division III college athletics they do not think about the challenging travel requirements.
I know that Division I athletes do have some tough travel, but take into account that, for the high level schools, they fly and often get to a [...]
Meet Eric Wall, the starting 5-spot for the UW-Platteville men’s basketball team.
James Nickasch has coached the majority of UW-Platteville’s track and field athletes since he started as head coach in 2001.
Nickasch worked as assistant coach from 1988-95. After taking a break from coaching from 1995-2000 Nickasch said he received a job offer in 1999 for a coaching-only position. However, he wanted to do more than [...]
Track and Field
UW-Platteville will send six athletes to the NCAA Division III nationals March 11-13 at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.
Ann Tank, sophomore, automatically qualified for the 800-meter championships for the women’s team. Tank qualified with a time of 2:11.92.
Sophomore Patrick Klein also automatically qualified for the 800-meter championships with a time of 1:52.63.
Freshman Matt [...]
The UW-Platteville basketball teams have more than just cheerleaders to pump them up at games. The popular student group, O-zone, also shows support. O-zone attends UW-P basketball games to create an intense environment filled with pride and team spirit.
O-zone was created to resemble a group of students during the Bo Ryan era, who were creatively [...]
Wrestling
Senior Jesse Milks earned his third straight WIAC wrestling title, winning the 157-pound championship on Feb. 20. Wilks will make his fourth trip to Nationals Friday, March 5 as the third seed in his class. Milks will enter the competition with a 21-2 record.
Sophomore Vinny Alber will head to Nationals unseeded with a record of [...]
Heather Townsend has not only had a career coaching softball in Wisconsin, but she has also traveled to California to coach the Santa Paula High School volleyball team for two seasons.
Townsend has been the head coach for the UW-Platteville softball team for the past five seasons. Prior to UW-P, Townsend coached at UW-La Crosse for [...]
The Pioneer basketball family will be losing eight seniors that have been great team players and great individuals throughout their four years in orange and blue.
Some of these players had tremendous stats in their careers, but there is one characteristic of all eight of these student athletes that cannot go overlooked, and that is selflessness.
When [...]
The UW-Platteville track and field team is focusing on their fitness in training to keep a steady pace as they look ahead to nationals on Thursday, March 11.
Last year the Pioneer men’s basketball team provided this campus and this community with a kind of excitement that only comes around once in a while. They dominated in the WIAC and ended up with an NCAA tournament bid for the first time in 10 years.
This season has provided just as much excitement but [...]
The Pioneer baseball team will look to top a successful season as their preseason practice is well underway. The 2009 season ended in the second most wins in school history, after going 21-19 and 11-13 in the WIAC, which placed them fifth overall.
The Pioneers look tentatively toward Greenville, Ill., for their first game of [...]
The Northern Baseball Club has found their man to lead the 2010 18U Stars according to Chad Sailors, Northern Baseball Club’s director of baseball operations. Sailors named UW-Platteville’s assistant baseball coach and alum, Jason Watson, the field manager for the 18U Stars summer season, on Feb. 6.
UW-Platteville wrestlers anxiously awaited their their last match of the season before entering the WIAC Championship.
“I’m looking forward to ending on a high note,” head coach Chris Walter said.
With the team ranked 29th nationally, Walter said he is happy with how the second half of the season turned out.
Individually, wrestler Jesse Milks, senior [...]
On Jan. 30, women’s basketball player Claire Poad, freshman guard, was found in a bar and cited during a tavern check by Platteville police.
With nine letter-earning athletes returning this season, the Pioneer softball team is looking forward to a fresh start with a veteran team.
The Pioneers fought through a tough season last year, fielding 15 freshmen on a roster of 20 players. Although the team lost six seniors, the younger players have moved into veteran positions.
The 2009 [...]
On Saturday the Pioneer men’s basketball team played an interesting game, to say the least. They led the game by three at halftime and would eventually lead by double digits partway through the second half.
However, struggles at the free-throw line in the second half allowed UW-Stout to claw their way back into the [...]
Vinny Alber, sophomore industrial engineering major from Dakota, Ill., knows exactly what the saying, “It runs in the family,” means.
The Pioneer All-Star Cheer and Stunt Club are somersaulting toward their first competition of the spring semester. On Sunday, Feb. 21, the club will head to the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells for their first large group competition of the spring. There, they will face off against other schools from Wisconsin.
In 2005 the city of New Orleans experienced the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina, which sent many residents fleeing to the Louisiana Superdome for shelter. Now four and a half years later the stadium that was home to so many displaced New Orleans residents is now home to the Super Bowl champion Saints.
The National Football [...]
The 2010 Pioneer baseball’s First Pitch Banquet was a home run on Saturday, when around 200 attended to help the team’s most important fundraising event of the year to fund the team’s spring break trip.
In December 2009 UW-Platteville was awarded its first gender equity award, the Laboratory of Diversity in Sport at Texas A&M University and the NCAA’s Diversity in Athletics Award for the 2008-09 academic year. This award was presented to UW-P because of the number of female athletes compared to the number of female undergraduate students enrolled.
The [...]
I host a sports talk show called the “Seventh Inning Stretch” on WSUP and last semester we discussed which National Football League quarterback each of the people involved would want to win a big game. On Jan. 24, Brett Favre proved exactly why he is not the best quarterback in NFL history as some people [...]
The Platteville Tuggers hosted a tug of war tournament Jan. 30 in the Williams Fieldhouse.
There were three women’s and six men’s teams at the event, with four of the nine teams belonging to the United States Amateur Tug of War Association. These teams included Oregon (women), Girls Love Dirt, Mt. Vernon (men) and the combined [...]
Despite the home ice advantage, UW-P hockey suffered back-to-back losses against Robert Morris Chicago Jan. 29 and 30.
UW-Platteville lacrosse will host the Great Lakes Lacrosse League for the first time on April 24-25.
There are many sports clubs on the UW-Platteville campus that not only draw gifted athletes who do not play a varsity sport, but also a cult-like following from fans who love the sport as well. These clubs have to raise their own money, set up their own schedules and tournaments and must play on whatever [...]
The Pioneer Activity Center, namely Williams Fieldhouse and Bo Ryan Court, has undergone dramatic improvements over the last few months; most recently, new bleachers were installed over the summer of 2009.
The UW-Platteville men’s basketball team dropped two WIAC games with a 73-63 loss against No. 6 UW-Whitewater on Jan. 20 and a 78-65 loss to UW-Superior Jan. 23.
The Pioneers hosted UW-Superior on Dec. 5 in the conference opener. UW-Platteville defeated the Yellowjackets 86-69 to go 6-1 for the first time in women’s basketball history. | Dec. 10
When you are sitting in Williams Fieldhouse during a men’s or women’s basketball game you will notice a couple of things. First, you will notice the players on the court and coaches on the sidelines barking out plays and perhaps criticisms toward the referees. But there is one thing that you do not even need your eyes open to notice, and that is the Pioneer pep band filling the gym with wonderful sounds that make a basketball game much more than just a sporting event. | Dec. 10
Melissa Hillebrand, a junior at UW-Platteville, is an all-star outside hitter from Davenport, Iowa, but her volleyball career hasn’t always been an all-star performance. | Dec. 10
The Pioneers soared over UW-Superior in a 75-63 win on Dec. 5. UW-Platteville hosted the Yellowjackets in a doubleheader with the women’s team at Bo Ryan Court. | Dec. 10
The UW-Platteville men’s Cross Country team had one of their best seasons in school history in 2009. The team placed ninth in the nation in the NCAA Divsion III Championships, the team’s highest finish ever. | Dec. 10
Check out the Exponent’s profile of UW-Platteville Wrestling Coach Chris Walter. | Dec. 3
While many people were still recovering from a full belly, the men’s basketball team hit Bo Ryan court in the Thanksgiving classic. | Dec. 3
To be a successful football player, athletes must practice hard and study often, but somewhere between the practices and the football games, athletes find time to hang out with friends. | Dec. 3
