Category Archives: Athletics

Couple’s gift to UW-Stevens Point funds Pointers Athletics graduate assistant positions in MBA program

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A substantial gift from a couple with careers as executives in professional sports and arena management will help support University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Athletics through five graduate assistantships. Dan Hauser, a 1977 alumnus in business education, and his wife, Marilyn, will fund five graduate assistant positions in Pointers Athletics for two years each. The positions […]

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Evan Dixon: Champion on and off the ice

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As an exceptional University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student-athlete, Evan Dixon has a lot to celebrate. Dixon, a senior captain on the Pointers men’s hockey team from Novi, Mich., near Detroit, helped his squad earn a Division III national championship March 26. The Pointers defeated St. Norbert College, 5-1, for their fifth title after consecutive runner-up […]

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Sports to studies

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All my life I have been considered a student-athlete. A student who was supposed to be putting their studies before their sports, but as most student-athletes could understand, that is not an easy task. I participated in various sports as a child and when I was 12 I started playing volleyball. My passion for the […]

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Tour of Italy: An experience of a lifetime

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I can’t say enough great things about our experience playing and touring in Italy through AIST. After touring Rome and Vatican City, we stayed busy and played three more matches throughout Italy. We made a number of stops throughout the 10 days abroad, but I would like to highlight Florence, San Marino, Venice, Milan and […]

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Republic of San Marino Tour

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San Marino is independent of Italy and it is actually called the Republic of San Marino, so throughout the tour, we have actually been to three separate countries: Italy, Vatican City and San Marino! San Marino is located in the mountains and it is quite small. There are a little over 30,000 inhabitants and it […]

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Fabulous Florence

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After talking to the team, Florence seemed to be a crowd favorite, and it is very easy to understand why. We started our walk into the city along beautiful River Arno. Elena, our Italian tour guide, brought us to the Piazza della Signoria, where the “fake” Statue of David is located. (The real Statue of […]

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First exhibition match for Team Stars and Team Stripes

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The volleyball squads boarded the bus and headed toward the Mar Terrerian Coast for their first exhibition matches against Italian squads. There was a lot of traffic as we headed out of Rome, which is typical, but we found out later that there was a very important soccer match being played during that time, which […]

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First days in Italy

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Arrival in Rome First sign that it was going to be a great trip: no luggage lost! The group boarded the charter bus and headed straight to Rome for some free time and following with a tour of the city. We were introduced to Elena, our Italian guide who will be with us for the […]

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UW-Stevens Point student-athletes inspire local special needs children

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by Ashley Remington ’15 Friday was a special day of the week this spring for children with special needs at Jefferson Elementary School in Stevens Point. Every Friday, a different team from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Department of Athletics visited the school to spend time with the children, describe what it is like to […]

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Strengthening programs in the College of Professional Studies

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The College of Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will have a new look soon. As of July 1, 2015, several programs moved, departments changed and the college has fewer, but larger and stronger, academic units Among the most notable of the changes is the Department of Athletics, which will report through the […]

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