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Warhawk wrestler earns national championship

Warhawk wrestler earns national championship

John Miller, Staff Writer March 14, 2017

The UW-Whitewater men’s wrestling team crowned its first individual national champion since 1991 on March 11, when junior Jordan Newman defeated his fifth-seeded opponent in the 184-pound weight class...

Senior Jordan Scheidecker hugs an assistant on the bench as he is subbed out for a final time as a Warhawk. Scheidecker is one of three ’Hawks graduating. Photo by Sierra High

Hoopers fall in title game

Justin St. Peter, Sports Editor March 14, 2017

When you think of athletic programs with traditions of winning at UW-Whitewater, many people could list off multiple teams from around the university, but they better include wheelchair basketball in that...

Senior Levi Perry stands atop the podium after winning the indoor weight throw national title on March 11 in Naperville, Illinois in the 2017 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Perry was the first UW-W champion in the event since 2004 when he threw a career best distance. Photo submitted

Perry wins indoor weight throw title

Josh Sinclair, Senior Staff Writer March 14, 2017

Senior Levi Perry lead the way for the Warhawks  track and field team, becoming a national champion in the weight throw. His career-best mark of 64-06.5 earned him his first individual championship and...

Sophomore Franchesca Hutton leaps in the air during her 
balance beam routine as her teammates cheer her on in the March 11 victory against Hamline University. Photo by Sierra High

Gymnasts victorious on Senior Day

Ben Lokken, Staff Writer March 14, 2017

The UW-Whitewater gymnastics team, 8-3, ended its three meet skid and celebrated senior night by edging out WIAC foe Hamline (Minnesota) by a final score of 192.125-188.850 on March 11 at Kris Russell...

Tennis squads sweep the weekend

Ben Lokken, Staff Writer March 14, 2017

The Warhawks men's and women's tennis teams combined to go 3-0 on the weekend. On March 10th the men's team beat Carthage College 5-4. The men won again on March 11 when they defeated Augustana College...

UW-W witnesses madness in March

UW-W witnesses madness in March

Justin St. Peter, Sports Editor March 14, 2017

With three game-winning shots with less than two seconds left on the clock in the first and second rounds of the Division-III NCAA Men’s Tournament at Kachel Gymnasium in a little over 24 hours, you...

UW-W enjoys seven years of Bryson

UW-W enjoys seven years of Bryson

Josh Sinclair, Senior Staff Writer March 14, 2017

You can still find them at the YMCA in the summer playing hoops together. Brother and brother, uniting to lock down some unknowing patrons who came to get in some run. Little do they know, that scoring...

UW-W to host hoops championships

John Miller, Staff Writer March 14, 2017

The 2017 National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament (NIWBT) is set to be hosted by UW-Whitewater March 9-11. The men’s (20-4) and women’s (11-8) UW-Whitewater wheelchair basketball teams...

Women’s hoops team falls in tourney

Tyler Job, Staff Writer March 14, 2017

The UW-Whitewater women’s basketball team could not get through the first round of the NCAA Tournament and lost to No. 18 Hope College (Michigan), 78-71, on March 3 at Thomas More College in Kentucky. The...

Gymnasts compete against DII opponents in Missouri

Bailey Johnston, Staff Writer March 14, 2017

It was a successful weekend for the Warhawks gymnastics team while recording the highest team score of the season, 192.600, and taking third in the team’s meet in St. Charles, Missouri against two Division...

‘Hawks dispatch UW-Stout in first round of WIAC tournament

Justin St. Peter, Sports Editor February 22, 2017

After beating the UW-Stout Blue Devils at home by 35 two and a half weeks ago, the three-seeded UW-Whitewater Warhawks were in a much tighter contest in the team’s 78-69 victory Feb. 21 in the first...

Swimmer honored at WIAC Championships

John Paul Czerwinski, Assistant Sports Editor February 21, 2017

The Warhawk men and women’s swimming and diving teams both placed third at the WIAC Swimming and Diving Championships at the Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer Feb. 18 to wrap up their 2016-17 seasons....

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