Sports

After coming up short the last two years at the national championship game, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point men’s hockey team became the 2016 Division III men’s hockey national champions with a 5-1 win over St. Norbert College on March 26 in Lake Placid, N.Y. Home of the 1980 Olympics “Miracle on Ice,” the Pointers played at Herb Brooks Arena ... Read More »

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point women’s club volleyball team will be traveling to Louisville, Ky. to participate in the National Collegiate Volleyball Championship hosted at the Kentucky Exposition Center. After a season where the varsity team finished with an 8-7 record and the junior varsity team went undefeated, the club will travel and compete as one collective unit in Kentucky. ... Read More »

The three year wrestling evolution of Logan Hermsen reached it’s climax with him winning the 2016 Division III wrestling national championship at 165-pounds. Hermsen, a junior, has gone from having a losing record his freshman year to being a national champion in his junior season. The lumps he took early on can be credited to where he ended up. “Not ... Read More »

For the second time this season, the No. 3 Pointer men’s hockey team defeated No.1 ranked Adrian College. This win marks the third consecutive year and 12th time overall in program history that the Pointers have advanced to the Frozen Four. Adrian’s Taylor McCloy got the Bulldog’s on the scoreboard with his goal 3:42 into the game, giving his team ... Read More »

Posting a 21-8 season record, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point women’s basketball team finished their season with a down to the wire loss against No.2 George Fox in the second round of NCAA Tournament play. In the first round of the tournament, the Pointers defeated Depauw University by a score of 65-50 to advance to the second round. They then ... Read More »

Basketball careers might be over for seniors Bill Patterson, Stephen Pelkofer and Sean McGann, but they are at ease with the impact they have had on the program during their stint at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. They were a part of a national championship winning team as juniors, and a No. 1 ranked team for a majority of their sophomore ... Read More »

On Sunday, April 3, from noon-3:00 p.m. in the Laird Room, the entire community and student body of Stevens Point is invited to attend a Zumbathon event that will serve as a fundraiser for Star Treatments. This event will be run by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Colleges Against Cancer. The event was brought to the attention of the Colleges ... Read More »

Junior Logan Hermsen became the sixth national champion in program history for the Pointer wrestling team when he won the 165-pound division at the 2016 NCAA Division III National Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The championship match was tied 3-3 and, with a third period takedown, Hermsen sent the match into overtime. He defeated Wartburg’s Nicholas Michael in a sudden ... Read More »

For the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point swimming team, a trip to nationals has become routine and this year they will send six swimmers to the national meet beginning March 16. Those six are Freshmen Nate Somers, Reilly Donnelann and Jack Englehardt, Juniors Andrew King and Brandon Richardson, and Senior Kyle McNair. Somers is the only swimmer out of the bunch ... Read More »