Getting Into Baseball
In the summer of 1981, Chia-Tse Hsu was born in Tainan City, Taiwan.
During his third year of elementary school, Hsu transferred to Tainan Chung-Shueh Elementary School. He was a particularly lively child who had endless energy every day. “At that time, my family said I was particularly active, and coincidentally, the new school had a baseball team, so they let me sign up and hoped that I could spend some of my energy training every day.”
As a parent, all you want is for your child to succeed.
You lend them your own life’s insight and guide them towards a path of a happy, fulfilled life. You also must watch your child fail. It is inevitable for them to get knocked down, and you teach them how to get back up. But what happens when mistakes are made on a national level? When your child is being criticized and ridiculed by complete strangers twice their age?
No one teaches you how to handle constant criticism, abide by hundreds of rules, and still live a normal life. Darcy Goede, the mother of BIG Ten college basketball star Jamison Battle, has had to navigate the ins and outs of the NCAA for four years running. The moral of the story: what happens off the court is just as powerful as what happens on it.
A unique situation regarding the organization’s outfielders is setting up the Brewers’ front office for some interesting decisions in the near future.
During the many eras of Milwaukee baseball, most included an outfielder who became labeled as the “face of the franchise.” First were the days of Hank Aaron and the Milwaukee Braves, followed by the Robin Yount-led Brewers of the ‘80s. Ryan Braun helped revive the franchise in the late ‘00s and early ‘10s before passing the torch to Christian Yelich, who was arguably the best player in Major League Baseball between 2018-19.
Penn State soccer player drafted to the MLS.
On a cold, brisk October night at Jeffrey Field, home of the Penn State Nittany Lions soccer team, senior midfielder Andrew Privett takes it all in one last time. He is about to play the final home game of his collegiate career.
Unsure of what the future will hold for him, Privett takes his first touch, and all his worries are wiped away as it once again is just him and the ball as it’s been so often in his life.
In the past few years, conversations around athletes and mental health have dramatically increased. Everyone has heard about this need to “end the stigma” and “having conversations” but what does this actually mean?
A group of UW-Madison student-athletes gathered to discuss the importance of mental health to kick off May, Mental Health Awareness Month. The following student-athletes took time to have this valuable conversation: David Vannucchi (Cross Country), Sania Copeland (Basketball), Austin Gomez (Wrestling), Katie Kotlowski (Hockey), Madison Mooney (Track & Field), and Emma Jaskaniec (Soccer).
Trace Browning is a freelance camera operator from Lodi, Wisconsin, who grew up the way most Wisconsinites do: cheering for the Packers, Brewers, Badgers, and Bucks.
While most of us grow up dreaming of making tackles on Lambeau Field or smashing home runs at Miller Park (we will never stop calling it Miller Park), Trace took a different path to the 50-yard line. Rather than holding a football, he holds a camera while sprinting up and down the field and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
After a 19th place finish at the Indoor Big Ten Track and Field Championships, true freshman Logan Measner sat down in Head Coach Mick Byrne’s office to recap his indoor season and outline his steps for the spring.
After coming off an injury that sidelined him for half of his first cross country season, Measner and his coach decided to redshirt his jersey for the spring and begin a long rebuild in preparation for the 2023-2024 season. That was before they saw him steeplechase. 2 months later, donning a plain jersey, Measner stepped off the track well ahead of the competition after 2000 meters in his debut.
That’s when things changed.
College is an exciting and new time for many students.
It’s a time for growth, exploration, and trying new things. For many, that means discovering new passions or reigniting and continuing old ones. For some, it means leaving part of their life behind—for many gymnasts, this is their sport.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison continues to portray itself as a “men’s sports school” even though Wisconsin women’s sports outplay men’s sports time and time again.
Just looking at this 2022-2023 school year, you can compare the women’s sports versus men’s sports and see. Here are statistics for some of the most popular women’s and men’s sports at Madison in the 2022-2023 seasons:
“When people see athletics, they don’t think being involved with the community is part of that. They think it’s just covering sports.”
For Bianca Miceli, Assistant Director of NIL and Community Outreach at UW-Madison, it’s much more than that, and she’s determined to correct any and all misconceptions you may have.