In college, Keegan Cook knew he wanted to do two things in life: teach and compete. A math major at St. Mary’s College in his home state of California, Cook planned to teach math and coach high school volleyball after getting his degree, but the closer he came to graduation day, the more wary he [...]

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The No. 15 Washington women’s tennis team is off to the best start in program history and hosts a pair of key Pac-12 matches this weekend, welcoming No. 13 USC on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and closing out the home portion of its 2019 schedule against No. 10 UCLA on Sunday at noon. Both USC [...]

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Crash the boards in support of Huskies Women’s Basketball and Gymnastics with select ticket discounts from UW Athletics! There’s an unforgettable scene in Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life in which a basketball gym floor splits open during a high school dance, sending unsuspecting dancers splashing down into a 25-yard swimming pool below. [...]

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Harry the Husky is about to hit the big time for the first time. For most of the year, the UW Spirit cheer and dance program follows the schedule of other UW teams, performing at football, volleyball, and men’s and women’s basketball games. But this January, the team of 16 dancers, 24 coed stunters and [...]

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It’s a best-in-the-West showdown you won’t want to miss. This Sunday at 3 pm, UW Men’s Soccer takes on reigning three-peat national champion Stanford at Husky Soccer Stadium. “This is a huge weekend because Stanford is the three-time conference champion in a row and three-time national champion in a row,” says head coach Jamie Clark. [...]

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When UW Women’s Soccer associate head coach Amy Griffin thinks about winning a national championship, she thinks about everything that has to go right. Not in terms of lucky bounces or fortuitous footwork, but in terms of the ways a championship team will prepare and support one another—both during games and in times in between. [...]

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Todd Tuetken always loved to lift. Growing up on a cattle farm in eastern Iowa, he watched his father and uncle build their own weight-lifting equipment with parts from an old combine harvester. Together they engineered a leg press, a spot rack, and rigged a lat pulldown machine using a tiller disc and combine chain. [...]

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There is no such thing as a soccer emergency. At least not in the life of Lesle Gallimore. It’s not that the head coach of UW Women’s Soccer isn’t competitive. To the contrary: the California native is the winningest coach in program history and recently earned her 250th UW victory in a 1-0 contest at [...]

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One of the first things Jennifer Cohen did on becoming athletic director of the University of Washington last May was shelve the hardware. The UW’s previous athletic director, Scott Woodward, had kept an array of championship rings displayed on a wall over a conference table in his office in Graves Hall. In making the space [...]

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If there is such a thing as a fifth act in the drama of American athletics, Elise Ray just opened hers to a standing ovation. This past April, Ray closed the books on her first season as head coach of UW Gymnastics, leading the GymDawgs to a program-record eighth-ranked finish nationally, ten spots ahead of the [...]

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Even after 33 seasons as head coach of the University of Washington women’s golf team and a 2016 run to the program’s first national championship, Mary Lou Mulflur is quick to shoot down any notion that she has it all figured out. “The minute I think I have it figured out, I’m done,” she says. “When you [...]

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