Sports
June 10, 2021
Forward momentum
Erin O'Connell, '96, is back at the UW as the Deputy Athletics Director and the Senior Woman Administrator.
Going the distance
Junior Haley Herberg was named the Pac-12 women’s cross-country athlete of the year.
Boost for softball
The 5,500-square-foot Softball Performance Center is slated to be completed in August 2021.
June 7, 2021
Calling the shots
For Golf Channel analyst Paige Mackenzie, ’06, the only thing more thrilling than scoring a hole-in-one is calling the golf play-by-play at the Olympic Games.
June 3, 2021
Reliving ’91
The story of the greatest coach in Husky football history and how he led the 1991 team to the national championship is the subject of a new book.
March 9, 2021
Elevating expectations
"My goal was to help Jen further elevate our efforts on the external side of the house, and work closely with a few of our programs," he says.
Focus on equity
Sheridan Blanford, ’16, has the opportunity to make a big impact as she incorporates two of her passions—sports and inclusion.
Standing tall
He went from the UW to professional basketball and back. But it’s in the special education classroom that Anthony Washington, ’16, ’19, is making a lasting difference.
March 4, 2021
A dream come true
Jimmy Lake took a long and winding road through colleges and the NFL before becoming head coach of Husky football.
March 2, 2021
The Kraken are coming!
Thanks in large part to David Bonderman, ’63, the Seattle Kraken is scheduled to make its debut as an NHL expansion team this coming fall.
January 16, 2021
Catch up with Jake Locker
Husky football fans remember Jake Locker for his determined play during some down years for the program.
Hockey heights
Now an agent, Ryan Minkoff, ’15, became the first student-athlete from the Husky club hockey team to make it to the professional hockey ranks.
December 16, 2020
Whitcomb’s year
Not only did Sami Whitcomb help the Seattle Storm capture its fourth WNBA championship, but she and her wife Kate welcomed their first child.
December 10, 2020
Grade A performer
Liberty Bracken is a big reason the Husky football team earned an NCAA-record academic score.
September 16, 2020
Familiar face
Fans of Husky women’s soccer may do a double take this season if they look at the sideline and see one of the best players in school history working as an assistant coach.
Golf legend dies
Edean Anderson Ihlanfeldt started the UW women’s golf team in 1974-75 and coached it for eight years.
From war to hoops
After taking a bullet in World War II, Charles Sheaffer returned to captain the Husky basketball team in his senior season.
Gentle giant
Rod Stanley, a Federal Way High School graduate who was a beloved member of the Husky football teams of the early 1970s, died in 2018.
September 11, 2020
Values and victories
Jennifer Cohen started working at the UW athletic department in 1998 and was promoted to athletic director in 2016.
July 16, 2020
Sports talk hosts with the most
710 ESPN’s Stacy Jo Rost, ’11, and KJR’s Dick Fain, ’96, earn national acclaim for the way they talk the talk.
Stat keeper
Craig Heyamoto, ’75, ’78, has compiled stats for UW football and basketball since the 1970s. Today, he is in charge of the UW stats crew.
March 10, 2020
Off and running
Darhian Mills didn't always love running, but she eventually ran the 400-meter hurdles faster than any woman in UW history.
November 24, 2019
Building the bones
Chip Lydum, ’84, parlayed a journalism job into a prominent role in Husky athletics.
Gallimore’s goodbye
UW women’s soccer coach Lesle Gallimore is retiring after 26 years, the longest run for a coach in the Pac-12.
September 2, 2019
Ahead of the herd
Kasia Omilian wants to become the first woman general manager in the National Football League.
June 4, 2019
At bat for Mom
Former Husky outfielder Braden Bishop's charity event raised $50,000 for Alzheimer’s research.
Global approach
The Husky women’s golf team isn’t just great, it’s quite international: Six of the eight players are from outside the United States.
Give Me 5
Melanie Jackson, a 1993 All-American soccer player at the UW, is now a senior editor and writer with ESPNW.
June 3, 2019
‘Cathedral’ on the Cut
Nearly torn down in 1975, the ASUW Shell House is still a beloved building on the UW campus.
June 2, 2019
Where it all began
The 101-year-old ASUW Shell House was home to the famed “Boys in the Boat.”
November 30, 2018
Give Me 5: Michael Callahan
Michael Callahan rowed for UW from 1992-96, competed in the ’04 Olympics and has coached the men’s crew team since 2007.
October 8, 2018
‘We book our own flights, our own hotels’
Hit the ice with UW hockey player Bennett Jarvis.
October 4, 2018
Beyond the boats in “The Boys in the Boat’’
David James Brown’s book is a great tale about the crew team at the 1936 Olympics. But there are more boats to know about than just the one they rowed.
October 3, 2018
Headed to the Hall?
Corey Dillon headlines the Huskies in the running for pro football's highest honor.
August 23, 2018
Partners under par
With his wife as caddie, former Husky C.T. Pan nearly nabbed first PGA trophy.
July 7, 2018
Ready for the moment
We photographed the bright smiles and unstoppable attitudes of the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games.
June 4, 2018
Running man
Junior Coffey went from the NFL to training racehorses. He's been one of the most successful trainers at Emerald Downs.
Legends of the IMA
Why did we keep playing softball even after graduating? Because we loved softball and the IMA league was much more fun than other leagues. And we really wanted those championship T-shirts.
Give Me 5: Shannon Drayer
A trumpet player in the Husky Marching Band during the late ’80s, she gave acting a try before becoming a sports radio journalist for ESPN 710.
June 2, 2018
A special time of year
This summer's Special Olympic Games likely will be the most notable sporting event at the UW and the Puget Sound region as a whole since the 1990 Goodwill Games.
March 29, 2018
Still rising
Isaiah Thomas became the third Husky basketball player to have his jersey retired by the University of Washington.
March 6, 2018
Give Me 5: Heather Tarr
Five questions with Heather Tarr, the head coach of the women's softball team.
December 30, 2017
Band royalty
For Fiesta Bowl week, we tour campus with seven veterans of the Husky Marching Band.
December 14, 2017
No more number 16
The best volleyball player in UW history, Krista Vansant, '15, had her jersey retired.
September 13, 2017
Hawkeye
Remembering sharpshooter and front-office ace George Irvine, who died at age 69 earlier this year.
September 12, 2017
Give Me 5: Staying on the track
Five questions with Anita Campbell, the former Husky running star who came back to UW to coach.
August 18, 2017
Vocal legend
It’s Bob Rondeau’s last season as the Husky play-by-play man after 37 years.
July 17, 2017
Seattle's big night
At the MLB All-Star Game, a UW-trained engineer crafted the bats and a Mariner took home the MVP.
June 1, 2017
Finals week
Rick Welts, president of the Golden State Warriors, returns to the NBA's biggest stage.
Bouncing back
After losing his younger sister in a car accident, Isaiah Thomas found the strength to take the court. Then he scored 53 points in a comeback victory on his sister’s birthday.
Plum gets picked first
Kelsey Plum, '17, is the first UW player to be picked first in a professional basketball draft.
March 4, 2017
A log lost sport
Thanks to a group of adventurous students and staff, log rolling has returned to UW.
Net gain, net loss
Markelle Fultz and Kelsey Plum are as good as it gets in college basketball. And they'll both be gone by summer.
December 29, 2016
Gridiron giant
Under head coach Gilmour Dobie, the UW Football team went undefeated for 10 years.
December 19, 2016
That bat
Axe Bats, a division of Renton-based Baden Sports, had a home run of a 2016 baseball season. Twenty-eight major leaguers used its brand-new “Axe Bat”—so named because its handle is shaped like what you’d find on an ax—at some point during the 2016 season.
December 16, 2016
Ciao, Courtney
The U.S. women’s national volleyball team couldn’t have won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero without Courtney Thompson, ’05.
September 1, 2016
Give Me 5: Kelsey Plum
The senior All-American from San Diego leads the Huskies in the Nov. 11 season opener at home against Eastern Washington — with her sights set on a return trip to the Final Four.
Character: Dave Torrell
Dave Torrell is the founding curator of the Husky Fever Hall of Fame, which opened in 2002. There are 500 pieces of memorabilia celebrating 21 sports, plus 200 Husky Hall of Fame inductees.
June 1, 2016
Give Me 5: Bob Rondeau
The 2016 Husky Hall of Famer talks about some of his career highlights.
True hued
Brock and Damon Huard both found NFL careers and success after their UW playing days, and both felt drawn to come home.
The torch carrier
Letters from a young man's trip to the 1936 Olympics offer hints of the life he would live.
March 1, 2016
Give Me 5
The oldest of six girls, the former basketball player helps student-athletes — from the burliest linebacker to the tiniest gymnast — deal with life, sports and school.
December 1, 2015
Give Me 5: Robin Stephenson
She played tennis at Alabama, then on the pro tennis tour, then coached in the South. She's now in her second year as women's tennis coach.
Character: Elise Ray
She had a rough time at the Olympics, but she recovered to help young athletes succeed.
June 1, 2015
Give Me 5: Dan Kingma
Despite scholarship offers from other schools, Dan Kingma was certain that he was a Husky, even if that meant joining the program as a walk-on.
March 1, 2015
Ring leaders
The UW Boxing Club doesn't just teach how to jab, hook and counterpunch. It teaches how to succeed.
Finding my father
I was 55 when my father passed away at the age of 80, the victim of a stroke. I had to wait another 17 years from the time of his death to finally receive his unexpected “gift.” Somehow he resurrected himself and had me cheering for the man I had long ago given up on.
Give Me 5: Tiffani Walker
The first woman on the staff of the men’s team, Walker is the only woman on the staff of any Pac-12 men’s basketball team.
December 1, 2014
Give Me 5: Krista Vansant
Krista Vansant is the 2013 national volleyball player of the year.
September 1, 2014
Editor's Eye: Quake
A lot of Husky fans feel something new is in the air, something we haven’t really felt in a long time: hope.
June 1, 2014
Our kind of guy
After eight remarkable seasons at Boise State, Chris Petersen was finally ready for the next challenge, becoming the head football coach at the University of Washington.
March 1, 2014
A big hit
In the shadow of gleaming Husky Stadium, construction continues on another remodeled athletic facility, one that is arguably an even more dramatic upgrade.
December 1, 2013
A new era
Husky coaching legend Don James died on Oct. 20 at age 80. Paul Strohmeier, ’77, a defensive lineman when James was hired and a graduate- assistant coach under James in 1976, offers a perspective on the beginning of the “Dawgfather” era.
September 1, 2013
Whole new ballgame
After a $261 million privately funded renovation, Husky Stadium reopens Aug. 31, welcoming a fired-up Husky nation mad for football and excited about the prospects for the future.
On Dubs' mind
Getting a little snout time with DUBS, the UW’s 13th live mascot, a 4-year-old Alaskan Malamute who gets to move back into Husky Stadium beginning with the season opener Aug. 31 with Boise State.
Homecoming
In a few short days, we get to come home to our spiffed up Husky Stadium, and boy, will that feel amazing.
June 1, 2013
Purple lane
Since 1920, the track encircling the football field at Husky Stadium was the surface upon which 27 Olympians and 36 NCAA champions sweat for UW. The new—and very purple—Husky Track has been more than 20 years in the making, but the wait was well worth it for track coach Greg Metcalf.
March 1, 2013
UW's first race
The first intercollegiate race for University of Washington crew – a program with some of the school’s most amazing athletic feats and that’s produced more Olympic medalists than any other Husky sport – came one Wednesday evening on Lake Washington.
Soviets in Seattle
When Washington hosted the inaugural Windermere Cup in 1987, it was the first competition for Soviet rowers in the United States in 25 years.
May magic
Every year, Huskies say the Windermere Cup creates a greatest moment for someone: a student athlete, a coach, alum, a band member, or family members watching with sack lunches along the cut.
Great expectations
The Husky golf teams find themselves in a similar position: perched high in team and individual rankings. So high, in fact, that the phrase “national champion” can’t help but creep into conversation.
December 1, 2012
Smashing success
Excellence has become a habit for UW women’s volleyball coach Jim McLaughlin.