Athletics

Steven Wisensale, professor of human development and family studies, watches a baseball game in Japan. (Chris Moore for UConn)

Coveted Class: Baseball and Society: Politics, Economics, Race, and Gender

Human development and family studies professor Steven Wisensale has designed a curriculum about baseball that isn’t a softball.

The roof of Gampel Pavilion during renovations. (Bret Eckhardt/UConn Photo)

New Gampel Roof Ready for 2017-18 Season

60,000 screws, 30,000+ hours, and 2,083 ceiling tiles later ... let the games begin!

'Being a Husky teaches you how to be a better person – not just on campus, but for the rest of your life,' says Randazzo, an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Professor Joseph LoTurco and a student in the Special Program in Medicine as well as an athlete on the Women's Track team. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Student-Athlete Strong: Ericka Randazzo

'Being a Husky teaches you how to be a better person – not just on campus, but for the rest of your life,' says Randazzo, a student in the Special Program in Medicine as well as an athlete on the Women's Track team.

Scott Levene '17 (BUS), Men's Soccer Goalkeeper, attends a COMM 1000 lecture in Laurel Hall. Levene, who says he dreamed of being a UConn Husky since he was 5 years old, excels in the classroom as well as on the field. (Garrett Spahn/UConn Photo)

Student-Athlete Strong: Scott Levene

The goalkeeper for Men's Soccer, who says he dreamed of being a UConn Husky since he was 5 years old, excels in the classroom as well as on the field.

Football players on the sidelines at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field on Sept. 1, 2016. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Football Announces Updated Schedule Following Hurricane Irma

UConn will now host East Carolina on Sept. 24 at noon, and South Florida on Nov. 4 (game time not yet set). Both matches will be at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field.

Maddox Bruening, a 13-year-old from South Glastonbury, Connecticut, was introduced as the newest member of the Husky team at a press conference that included his parents, Joey and Sherry, as well as the UConn coaching staff and team.

Men’s Soccer Team Welcomes 13-Year-Old

UConn received a special National Letter of Intent from Maddox Bruening of South Glastonbury, Connecticut, who joined the program through his participation in Team IMPACT,

Track and field student-athlete Kyle Milliken '02 at a meet at UConn on April 7, 2001. (Bob Stowell for UConn Athletics)

Memorial Run to Honor Former Track and Field Alum

Join the Kyle Milliken Memorial Run on Sept. 16, a five-mile run in honor of track and field student-athlete and Navy SEAL Kyle Milliken '02 who was killed in action in May this year.

Student-Athletes Earn Big East Academic Honors

The league recognized dozens of players on UConn's Women's Lacrosse and Field Hockey teams.

Hall-of-Fame coach Jim Calhoun offered an inside perspective on college basketball for a new production, 'Exposure,' showing this weekend at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford. (AP Photo via Athletic Communications)

Calhoun Coaches Theater Group on Basketball Recruiting

The Hall-of-Fame coach offered an inside perspective on college basketball for a new production, 'Exposure,' showing this weekend at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford.

Former Husky George Springer.

Former Husky to Start in MLB All-Star Game

George Springer is the third alum named to Mid-Summer Classic, following Walt Dropo of the Boston Red Sox in 1950 and Charles Nagy of the Cleveland Indians in 1996.