Zach Dwyer

15 Nov 2017

Rick Bowen court dedication reflects how far UWRF basketball has come

Rick Bowen arrived on the UW-River Falls campus in 1986 to look at the job opening for the head men’s basketball coach. According to Bowen, he enjoyed the community within the campus and took the job expecting to be in River Falls for maybe two years before moving on.

08 Nov 2017

Here first but nearly forgotten, Native Americans celebrate this November

Aiyana Ledwein, a senior softball player, is one of the few Native American athletes at UWRF. She is a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, and her birth mom lived on a reservation in eastern Wisconsin before moving to Minnesota.

03 Nov 2017

UWRF women’s cross-country team runs to first ranking in school history

Watch the Falcons cross-country team workout at UWRF.

01 Nov 2017

Coach profile: Jeff Berkhof looks to lead Falcons back to NCAA tournament

Jeff Berkhof enters his 12th season as the head coach for UWRF men’s basketball. He has the second most wins in program history, only trailing his former coach Rick Bowen for career wins. Last year his team finished 25-4 and won the WIAC regular season title and WIAC tournament. The team also completed a 17-game win streak, the longest in program history.  

01 Nov 2017

Blue Bike Program looks to expand on first two years of success

It’s a simple concept. You take a bike, you put it back. No credit card transactions, forms or other ways to discourage letting people get out and ride.

01 Nov 2017

UWRF women’s cross-country team runs to first ranking in school history

It was a warm September day when the UWRF women’s cross-country team lined up for one of their most difficult races of the year. Following cold temperatures during training and a mild end of summer, the temperature soared to over 90 degrees by the time the Roy Griak Invitational began at the University of Minnesota. The meet is often one of the toughest on the schedule, and this year would be no different.

18 Oct 2017

New Title IX guide raises questions over reporting sexual assaults

Safety is an essential aspect of the college experience. Many measures have been put into place in the University of Wisconsin System to ensure that students have a variety of resources at their disposal to deal with situations when they arrive.

18 Oct 2017

Faculty Senate aims to keep profs from losing pay on technicalities

Doug Margolis has been a professor in the TESOL (teaching English as a second language) program at UW-River Falls since 2012. In 2014, he took six students to South Korea for a J-term trip to help them teach English to Korean students in high schools.

11 Oct 2017

We are family: UWRF Latinos find meaning in Hispanic Heritage Month

Jason Caballero, a senior football player and president of the Latino Student Organization, grew up in urban Houston before arriving for school at UWRF.

04 Oct 2017

Division III Falcons football finds a new place to recruit — Division I

Coming home can be a feeling that maximizes a person’s joy and potential. In the case of three football players at UWRF, initial journeys to Division I schools have brought them back close to home.