University of Wisconsin Men’s Rugby Club

About

The UW Rugby Football Club is an established university club team with a tradition of championships. In recent seasons it has reestablished itself as one of the Midwest's most competitive collegiate squads. 

UWRFC is always looking to add players to its roster.

Playing rugby at the University of Wisconsin provides the opportunity to represent and add to the storied Badger athletic tradition, make lifelong friends, travel widely and play the world's most intense contact sport!

We strongly encourage you to get in touch with us.

Captain: Andrew Hanske - hanske@wisc.edu

President: Paul Michalowski - michalowski@wisc.edu

Match Secretary: Ryan McGlynn - mcglynn@wisc.edu

Recruitment Chair: Cory Katzban - katzban@wisc.edu

This past weekend's game summary:

University Wisconsin-Madison vs. University of Wisconsin-Stout

The day started somewhat differently with the coaching staff taking a playoff type approach and getting the players together for a 10.30am team meeting. You know we are in for a good day when at 10.30am there is 95% of the squad chomping at the bit to get the result later in the day, and a result they did.

The game started at a frantic pace, mainly from us with our up tempo mindset really caught Stout unawares and no sooner had we pushed forward we received a penalty which Jordie duly slotted over for us to take a 3-0 lead.

From the restart we pushed up field and were in their ‘red zone’, when a Garrett saw a hole in the Stout and ran through to score close to the post’s that Jordie converted to take us out 10-0.

At that Stout really piled on some pressure yet our defence held firm, trying to run through us wasn’t working so they tried to run the outside channels but our centres Kurtis and Pat and back 3 Garrett,Jordie and Tim, were smashing them as they tried to find that elusive gap to exploit. We held that raid out and pushed back upfield for a break to be made on the fringes and an overload created for Jordie to scoot around and score and then convert to take the score out to 17-0.

At this stage our game plan was starting to really kick in and the players seemed to embrace the running opportunities it was creating.

A tight head scrum taken from Stout close to their line, had the ball spun wide and freshman Pat, seized an opportunity and dummied to outside and took the space that created to take a defender over to score to take the score to 22-0 at halftime.

We knew that Stout would come out firing and to nullify that we had to score first and that’s exactly how it panned out, within ten minutes from the resumpution,a worked move saw Tony crash over for another ‘props’ try. The try was converted and it was 29-0 and the Stout sideline all of a sudden had a dose of quietness, whereby the supporters of the UW,really knew Halloween had come early as that were being ‘treated’ to some great UW rugby.

At this stage Stout did everything they could to get back into the game, that said kicking the ball away when chasing points doesn’t seem the wisest of game management I would of thought and we just simply kept punishing them with some decisive runs.

Two penalties to us took the score out to 35-0, and our theory that we just keep taking the points and building our lead was paying dividends.

We were able to bring 6-7 reserves into the game, which was a fantastic opportunity for those players, but the pleasing aspect was that they made sure the high standards were maintained and made a difference when they came on, which is always great.

A late try to Stout from a poor turnover from us, meant they got something from the game albeit in the 78 minute.

The final score was 35-7 and meant that UW finished on top of their conference after the minor rounds and now play Uni Nth Iowa on Saturday at Cottage Grove at 1pm with the hope of winning and then being in the main Sunday game with the winner going onto the National Championships in the spring.

On another upside our B side won against Stout to make it a great day.

The whole UW Rugby family would like to thank everyone who attended and showed us great support, it is so very much appreciated and we hope you can support us this weekend.

We practice every Monday & Wednesday from 5-7 p.m at the University Bay Fields (behind UW Hospital)

Our D1 Schedule:

Sunday 10/10, UW vs. Minnesota 1p.m

10/16 UNI - Away

10/23 ISU - Away

10/30 UW-Stout - Home

11/6 Playoffs

11/13 Playoffs

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Roster

NAME           HT   WT   Position
Adam Carlson 6 2 230 Prop
Adam Jahnke 5 9 175 Center
Adam Jannke 5 9 175 Flyhalf
Adam Thiesen 5 7 190 Center
AJ Witter 6 0 160 Wing
Alec Schindler 5 10 175 Flanker
Alex Schurman 5 9 175 Wing
Alexandre Maleval 6 2 185 Flanker
Andrew Hanske 6 3 230 2nd Row
Anthony Esealuka 5 10 210 Prop
Ben Knight 5 10 180 Fullback
Bob Davis 5 9 170 Lock
Cory Katzban 5 10 185 Fly-Half
Dan Thompson 5 11 190 Flanker
Daniel Nelson 6 5 205 2nd Row
Danny Lang 6 0 195 Center
Don Lyons 6 1 250 Lock
Eric Boedom 5 11 205 Prop
Greg Docter 5 9 185 Hooker
Greg Stravinski 5 6 150 Hooker
Ian Latimer 5 8 130 Center
Jack Hartnett 6 2 230 Lock
Joel Cohen 6 0 185 Center
John Bezak 6 2 195 8-Man
Jordan Heginbottom 5 9 150 Wing
Kevin Togher 6 1 200 Flanker
Kurtis Shepherd 5 10 175 Wing
Lucas Olson 5 11 165 Flanker
Matt Ford 5 9 186 Wing
Max Perkins 5 11 185 Fly Half
Nick Sager 6 1 205 Lock
Pat Koehler 6 6 185 Lock
Patrick Sullivan 5 10 185 Center
Paul Michalowski 6 2 220 Lock
Robbie Gorowsky 6 1 215 Lock
Ryan Jones 6 2 225 Lock
Ryan McGlynn 5 10 180 Scrum Half
Ryan Zigman 5 10 175 Scrum Half
Scott DeBacco 5 10 185 Center
Steve Link 5 10 200 Hooker
Tim Slater 5 11 175 Center
Tudor Byas 6 1 180 Wing
Tyler Svoke 5 10 175 Center
Zack Arostegui 5 7 170 Flanker
Zack Harper 5 11 160 Scrum Half