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Athletics
Athletics are Important
We encourage students to participate in athletics. We believe participating
will greatly add to your college experience, help build self-confidence,
teach you how to work with others, and help improve your physical
health.
UW-Waukesha currently offers the following sports, which are available
to both men and women unless otherwise indicated:
Notes:
If there are not enough female athletes to support separate women’s
golf, soccer, and tennis teams, women are allowed to participate
on the men’s teams.
Admission for Men's and Women's Home Basketball Games:
- $2.00 adults
- $1.00 students
All UW-Waukesha faculty, staff and students free with campus ID.
Field
House Facts
Originally built:
- 1966; opened spring 1967
- Sq. footage: 22,745
- Students served: approximately 750
- Spectator capacity: 450
Remodeled:
Open for use November 2000;
Open House February 3, 2001
Added sq. footage: 9,885
- 3 new (smart) classrooms, totaling 2605 sq. ft.
- Concessions stand
- Ticket booth and lobby
- Faculty offices: remodeled old, added one
- Fitness center: 680 sq. ft larger and 24 pieces of equipment
- Training room: whirlpool and taping tables
Students served: approximately 2,200
Spectator capacity: 550
WCC Rules and Regulations
UW-Waukesha is a member of the Wisconsin Collegiate Conference
and is subject to the rules and regulations contained in the Handbook
of the Wisconsin Collegiate Conference. The following
is a partial list of regulations, covering the rules that most directly
pertain to the student. If you wish to review the complete
list of regulations in the Handbook, see the Athletic Director
(Neal Nelson, Fieldhouse 112) or the WCC Commissioner of Athletics
(Mary Ryan, Administration 140).
Please note that coaches of all sports have the power to impose
any other rules and regulations that they deem necessary.
Please consult with your coach if you are unsure about what is expected
of you.
Medical Examinations
All members of all athletic teams must have a medical examination
and be cleared for competition by a medical doctor. Each student
must have one physical exam for every two years of competition.
False Statements
Any athlete who has made false statements about eligibility while
registering for a sport will be ineligible for further competition
in the conference, and the team will forfeit any games already played
in which the ineligible athlete participated.
Conduct
Members of the athletic teams are representatives of their institutions
and the Wisconsin Collegiate Conference and must govern their conduct
and actions to be a credit to their institution and conference.
Eligibility Rules
- A player must be a student at the institution that he/she represents.
- A player must be enrolled in courses that total at least
10 credits per semester. At least 6 of those credits
must be carried at that campus, and a minimum of 10 must be within
the UW system. Any player dropping below 10 credits during
the semester is immediately ineligible.
- A player must have a minimum cumulative grade point average
of 1.5 after the first semester of attendance to be eligible for
competition. Thereafter, a player must maintain a cumulative
GPA of at least 1.75. Any student dropping below the
required GPA will become ineligible one week prior to the first
day of class of the following semester. Please note that
ALL classes—including non-degree credit courses—are
counted when calculating GPA for athletic eligibility.
The Athletic Board would like to strongly encourage you to
make education your highest priority throughout your academic
career at UW-Waukesha. You are, of course, expected
to regularly participate in competitions and practices, but you
are neither expected nor encouraged to sacrifice your schoolwork
in order to do so. Please consult with your coach if you
experience serious conflicts between your academic and athletic
demands.
Remember that to succeed, college students can expect to study
2 hours a week for every credit they are taking; thus, a student
taking 12 credits can expect 24 hours of homework a week.
Want to improve your classroom performance?
Many busy students succeed academically by scheduling when they
will study each subject. The Study Center (W100)
is an excellent place to do homework and study, and the Study
Center staff can help you work out a reasonable study schedule.
The Study Center also provides tutoring in most subjects, including
drop-in tutoring for Math and Writing. All students are
encouraged to come to the Study Center to read, write papers,
study with a friend, or complete assignments.
Please note that a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better is required
to avoid academic probation.
- New freshmen, transfer students, and previously
ineligible students who have raised their cumulative GPA to
an acceptable level become eligible for competition one week prior
to the first day of class in the upcoming semester.
- A player may participate two seasons in golf, soccer,
tennis, and volleyball and two first semesters and two second
semesters in basketball. If a player participates in
at least a fraction of any regularly scheduled contest in a given
season or semester, it is counted as one season/semester of participation.
(A student may be granted additional competition by the Eligibility
Committee; see the Handbook of the WCC for details).
- Transfer students from another WCC college must use their cumulative
GPA from their previous school for eligibility requirements.
Students transferring from schools outside the conference will
be considered eligible. Transfer students are not eligible
if they participated in a regularly scheduled athletic contest
in the same sport during the same academic year at their previous
school.
- All players must maintain amateur athletic status as defined
in the Handbook of the WCC and may not play the same sport on
an amateur team that is not connected to his/her UW college (see
the Handbook of the WCC for details).
- It is possible for established part-time students taking at
least 6 credits to participate in sports. In order to participate,
the student must have completed one academic year as a part-time
student at the same UW college prior to participation and have
passed at least 12 credits with a cumulative GPA of 1.75 or better.
Part-time students who fail to maintain a 1.75 GPA or withdraw
to less than 6 credits are ineligible. Full-time students
who withdraw to part-time status are not eligible until they establish
themselves as part-time students for one year.
If you have any questions about UW-Waukesha’s Athletic Program,
please call Neal
Nelson at (262) 521-5206. |
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