While many students partook in various festivities on Mifflin Street Saturday afternoon, the Wisconsin men’s track and field team was hard at work at the McClimon Track Complex, competing in its last regular season meet. The No. 11-ranked Badgers took home wins in 13 events in the Wisconsin Open, which… Read more »

For the Wisconsin men’s and women’s track teams, this weekend’s Wisconsin Open marks the final competition before the all-important Big Ten Outdoor Championships in Columbus, Ohio next weekend. Men’s assistant coach and cross country head coach Mick Byrne said that the quality of competition in the Big Ten makes the… Read more »

Almost one year ago exactly, Mohammed Ahmed was on top of the world. Having just completed the race of his life April 29, 2012 in Palo Alto, Calif. at the Payton Jordan Invitational, the UW men’s long-distance track runner had easily qualified for the Olympic “A” standard — the time… Read more »

No. 22 Nebraska takes series from Wisconsin softball in Lincoln In a critical road series against perennial powerhouse program Nebraska, Wisconsin found a way to fight back from defeat but lost the rubber match Sunday against the Cornhuskers, 11-2. The loss drops the Badgers to 29-8 overall and 7-5 in… Read more »

Goofy, funny, smiley, motivated, competitive: all words a fellow teammate and coach chose to describe All-American shot putter Danny Block. Block, a junior on the Wisconsin track and field team, was recently named a First-Team All-American after his 20.00 meter throw at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in… Read more »

After predicting his team to place somewhere between fourth and sixth place in the NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field Championships, head coach Ed Nuttycombe isn’t complaining about bringing home the team’s third-place hardware after competing in Fayetteville, Ark., March 8 and 9. “It feels good to be wrong,” Nuttycombe… Read more »

After taking first place in the Big Ten Track and Field Indoor Championships Feb. 22-23 and third in the NCAA Championships March 8-9, the Badgers have had another solid indoor track season with head coach Ed Nuttycombe at the helm. In his 30-year career, Nuttycombe has recieved 33 Coach of… Read more »

After scooping up his 26th Big Ten title in 29 years of coaching, men’s track and field head coach Ed Nuttycombe and Wisconsin are off to Fayetteville, Ark., Friday and Saturday to compete in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Although the team’s Big Ten title shot them up… Read more »

After scooping up his 26th Big Ten title in his 29 years of coaching, men’s track and field head coach Ed Nuttycombe and his team of athletes are off to Fayetteville, Ark., Friday and Saturday to compete in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Although the team’s title shot… Read more »

After taking the crown as a team for the Big Ten 2013 Indoor Track Championship and an individual first-place finish in the Heptathlon, junior Japheth Cato is set to make his return to Nationals March 8 in Fayetteville, Ark. After finishing second in the event in the same competition last… Read more »

GENEVA, Ohio — It wasn’t decided until the final event, but Wisconsin head coach Ed Nuttycombe was able to breathe a sigh of victorious relief Saturday afternoon at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. In a meet that saw the top five teams separated by a mere five points, the… Read more »

Decathlete Japheth Cato has quickly risen the ranks to become one of the best multi-event athletes in the nation. Just recently, his 6,024-point total at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational launched him to a mark of third-best in the world. No longer an unknown track star on campus, there’s little about… Read more »

Mohammed Ahmed still remembers etching “Olympian” under future occupation in the yearbook as an eighth-grader in Canada. Seven years later, that prediction has turned into reality for the Wisconsin cross country and track and field athlete who just finished his junior year. Clocking a time of 27 minutes, 34 seconds… Read more »

After the race of his life at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., April 29, men’s distance track runner Mohammed Ahmed has nearly solidified himself a spot in the 2012 Olympic Games this summer in London. His 10,000-meter time of 27 minutes and 34 seconds, which was… Read more »

The University of Wisconsin men’s track and field team’s select few members have been preparing for this upcoming weekend for the entire year. This Friday and Saturday, the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship will be held at the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium in Nampa, Idaho. The Badgers will send… Read more »

In the realm of track and field, multi-event athletes are often labeled by the number of events they compete in. Pentathletes compete in five events, heptathletes in seven, decathletes in ten and so on. In the case of Wisconsin sophomore track and field star Japheth Cato, numbers barely mean a… Read more »

The track and field season finished at the end of June, and even though neither the Wisconsin men’s nor the women’s track and field teams captured a Big Ten title in the indoor or outdoor championships, the squads still formed a foundation for better years to come. Outdoor track and… Read more »

The Wisconsin men’s track team has continuously exhibited its mettle, which should prove useful in the upcoming Big Ten Indoor Championships. The indoor season is very short, consisting of less than 10 meets that end with the Big Ten and NCAA championships just two weeks apart. This leaves little time… Read more »

With the first three meets of the season already finished, the men’s cross country team now looks forward to running the Big Ten Cross Country Championships this Sunday. The eight kilometer meet is to be held right here in Madison at the Zimmer Cross Country course, a fact that has… Read more »

The defending Big Ten champion Wisconsin cross country team is excited and up to the challenge of carrying on the UW tradition of performing as one of the top teams in the conference. Redshirt freshman Michael Brice is ready to do his part and he’s already showed early promise of… Read more »

Wisconsin men’s track and field head coach Ed Nuttycombe won’t admit to total satisfaction unless his team ends a season on top of all others. Though the Badgers didn’t finish at the top of the podium, Nuttycombe nevertheless holds much enthusiasm for the team that overcame injuries to finish second… Read more »

After finishing up the indoor season with a solid 26th-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships last month, the Wisconsin men’s track and field team is hoping to put together an even better outdoor season this week. With the weather warming up and the outdoor track and field season now… Read more »

Though the calendar might have the Wisconsin men’s track and field team sitting in the middle of outdoor competition, the season is still young for many Badgers as April and May still loom on the schedule. With the Drake Relays set for the end of this week, head coach Ed… Read more »

It’s a time for transitions. As the weather outside appears to be changing from the dreary winter cold to the warmth of spring, the men’s and women’s track and field team is making a transition of their own as they head outdoors. The Badger track team begins its outdoor schedule… Read more »

Coming off an impressive third place performance in the Big Ten Indoor Championships last weekend in Minneapolis, the Wisconsin men’s track and field team is hoping for much of the same in the Alex Wilson Invitational Saturday. Although the women’s track and field team will not be competing in the… Read more »

At 6-foot-5, junior sprinter Kyle Jefferson is one of the tallest members of the Wisconsin men’s track and field squad. That size, along with Jefferson’s speed, is part of the reason Jefferson is also a two-year letter winner for the UW football team. Jefferson, a Cleveland native, splits his time… Read more »

After a successful showing at the Red & White Open last Friday, the Wisconsin men’s track and field team is gearing up for this weekend’s Big Ten Indoor Championships in Minneapolis. At Friday’s meet, the Badgers found success in a variety of events. Senior Nate Larkin carried the 60-meter hurdles,… Read more »

You’ve always got to focus on the next step ahead. Whether treading the icy sidewalks of Madison or life’s winding paths, if you glance too far ahead and neglect where you are, you could very well lose your footing. Senior University of Wisconsin distance runner Craig Miller knows this. And… Read more »

As the indoor track and field season gets under way, the Wisconsin men’s and women’s teams will compete at the annual Wisconsin Elite Invitational this weekend at The Shell. For the No. 24 ranked men’s team, the meet will feature scored competition between Purdue, Indiana State and South Dakota.… Read more »

With the Wisconsin Twilight Invitational approaching this weekend, and the Big Ten Outdoor Championships just two weeks away, men’s track head coach Ed Nuttycombe spoke about the progress he has seen in his squad. Nuttycombe began the press conference by conveying his team’s eagerness to take advantage of a… Read more »

The fastest collegiate 1,500-meter race of the year led to two of the fastest 1,500 meters times in Wisconsin history Saturday. Juniors Jack Bolas and Craig Miller were part of an elite field that lived up to its billing at Stanford’s Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational, as all five of the… Read more »

With the outdoor track season now in full gear, the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s squads will prepare for yet another busy weekend of competition. A large portion of the men’s team — and a few female athletes — will have to recover quickly from last week’s Drake… Read more »

The outdoor track season has been a gradual process for many of the University of Wisconsin’s track athletes who were making the transition from the grueling indoor season, but things have certainly begun to pick up. This weekend, the men’s team will travel to Des Moines, Iowa, for the Drake… Read more »

Returning from a big weekend in California, the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track coaches are looking forward to the upcoming Drake Relays. Men’s head coach Ed Nuttycombe and women’s head coach Jim Stintzi will both be sending athletes to the highly anticipated meet that will take place… Read more »

With the cold weather finally relenting in Madison, the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track teams have been gradually adjusting to the outdoor season over the past few weeks, as both coaching staffs have rested some key athletes in preparation for later meets. This week, however, that will… Read more »

The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track teams will be out of town this weekend, as the two squads will look to take advantage of opportunities to improve. Both teams will be headed to the Jim Duncan Invitational in Des Moines, Iowa. Action will take place on both… Read more »

The University of Wisconsin men’s track team will travel to Tucson this weekend for the Jim Click Shootout as they look to continue to improve heading into the outdoor season grind. Fellow conference member Penn State will join Wisconsin, and both schools will represent the Big Ten in the outdoor… Read more »

The members of the University of Wisconsin track team has put the indoor season behind them and has returned from spring break to ready themselves for the start of the outdoor campaignThis weekend, the well-rested men’s team will travel to California for the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto. With this… Read more »

The pinnacle of the indoor track season will take place this weekend as a select number Badger athletes will travel down to College Station, Texas, for the highly anticipated 2009 indoor championships. There will be a total of nine athletes representing Wisconsin at the meet, which hosts the best from… Read more »

The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track teams may be young and going through some growing pains, but there are two members in the track program who are emerging as a national stars. Gwen Jorgensen, a senior from Waukesha, was named to the all-Big Ten first team and… Read more »

The University of Wisconsin women’s tennis team is expecting two wins on this weekend’s road trip to the University of Missouri. The team is set to face Missouri and the University of Oklahoma this Friday and Saturday, respectively, at Missouri’s Green Tennis Center. The team has a lot of… Read more »

After a successful outing at the Badger Open, the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track coaches spoke to media at a Monday press conference. Men’s coach Ed Nuttycombe was proud of his team’s performance in Saturday’s event and spoke about the challenge that lies ahead. His team will… Read more »

The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track teams had excellent performances at the Badger Open this past Saturday, as both teams worked in preparation for the Big Ten Indoor Championships that will take place this weekend. The Badgers showcased their talent and competed against athletes from UW-La Crosse,… Read more »

Coming off successful performances last week, where seven Badger runners qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships, Wisconsin looks to continue its success at the Shell this weekend. The Badger Invite will be the last chance for Wisconsin to participate in a meet before running at the Big Ten Indoor… Read more »

With just two weeks until the Big Ten Championships, both the University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track and field teams will compete this weekend in one of their last major competitions of the indoor season. While the women’s team and most of the men’s team will be heading… Read more »

The Universiy of Wisconsin men’s and women’s track teams made enormous strides as both hurdlers and distance runners impressed at the Wisconsin Elite Invitational this past weekend. In his most impressive victory of the season thus far, sophomore Quinn Evans set his own personal best in the 600-meter with… Read more »

This weekend the indoor season picks up as the University of Wisconsin men and women’s track teams host the Wisconsin Elite Invitational at the Shell on Friday and Saturday. The Badgers will compete against Marquette, UW-Milwaukee, Illinois State and a host of individually invited athletes in an event UW… Read more »

In its third indoor meet of the season, the University of Wisconsin track team will look to repeat its performance from earlier this month when it took first place at the Badger Track Classic. Hosting the Wisconsin Elite Invite, the Badgers will compete against two teams they have already… Read more »

As a high school runner, Matt Tegenkamp first had the dream. In 2005, after his cross country career at the University of Wisconsin had ended, the dream started to become a reality when he began running professionally with Nike.But it wasn’t until this summer when the dream was finally achieved:… Read more »

Ed Nuttycombe has earned an impressive number of awards and accolades in his 25 years as head coach of the Wisconsin men’s track team. However, his induction into the Madison Sports Hall of Fame June 4 has unique significance. “It’s an honor,” Nuttycombe said. “When I look at all the… Read more »

As the Wisconsin men’s track and field team warmed up for practice Thursday, what started as a promising day of sun and mild temperatures morphed into a gray, overcast chill. It has been that kind of season for the Badgers, who have traveled near and far and performed impressively but… Read more »

On the heels of the announcement that their coach Ed Nuttycombe will be inducted into the Madison Sports Hall of Fame, a group of Badgers will be heading to Iowa City, Iowa to compete in the Iowa Open on Saturday, April 19. The news of their coach’s induction into the… Read more »