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Founded 1901

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Vowing to take down cancer

January 27, 2010
The thought was in AJ Raebel’s mind for nearly eight months. Yet, he tried to put that thought out of his mind and no where near the surface. That is until he had no choice. “The pain got worse,” said Raebel, who last played on the UW-Whitewater football team during the 2007 season when the Warhawks won their first national championship in school history.

2009 Football Individual Awards

January 20, 2010
Sports Editor Chris Kuhagen hands out his team MVP, Offensive MVP, Defensive MVP and Breakout Player of the Year for the 2009 national championship football team.

Warhawk Perfection: Football team finishes undefeated, wins second national title

January 20, 2010
The 2009 season will not be forgotten anytime soon. It was a season the UW-Whitewater football team dominated for much of the year. It was a season where numerous team and individual records were broken. And it was a season that ended in the most dramatic fashion on Division III’s grandest stage.

Leipold has created a lasting legacy in just three years

January 20, 2010
When Lance Leipold was introduced as the new head coach three years ago, he knew what awaited him. The Warhawks were coming off the best seasons in school history advancing to the national championship game in 2005 and 2006. “The bar has been raised here the last couple of years,” Leipold said at his first news conference after taking over for legendary head coach Bob Berezowitz in 2007. As hard as it might have been to do, Leipold has raised that bar even further.

Donovan shining under spotlight

December 9, 2009
Senior quarterback Jeff Donovan's career hasn't always been the smoothest. The spotlight has been on him since his freshman year and now, in his final year as the quarterback of one of the top-ranked football offenses in the country, he is shining in that spotlight.

McKay finds basketball success in Europe

October 21, 2009
Myles McKay lives by one motto and everyone seems to know it. “I can’t accept anyone working harder than me,” said McKay, who as a senior last year led the men’s basketball team to the second round of the NCAA tournament. “I can’t accept it. Hard work is everything to me.” Not a bad motto for where it has taken him: It got him a Division I basketball scholarship out of high school.

Football team’s hidden gem

September 23, 2009
Andy Harris doesn’t have a fancy office or get any credit for the football team’s national success. But that doesn’t bother him. “I just like being behind the scenes and getting out of the way,” Harris, the team’s director of football operations, said. “I just like staying out of the way.”

Football team’s dynamic duo thrust into national spotlight

September 9, 2009
It was all a matter of seizing the opportunity. For Levell Coppage and Antwan Anderson, this was the motto both played with throughout the 2008 football season. And when each had their chance to start, Coppage and Anderson grabbed it with full confidence and kept UW-Whitewater’s running back tradition alive.
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