Men’s golf senior Erik Van Rooyen will compete at the Ohio State regional May 16-18 in his third trip to the postseason.
The Gophers' No. 1 golfer this spring will compete as an individual at...
Erik Van Rooyen of the Gophers men's golf team was named to the All-Big Ten second team, the conference announced Wednesday. This is the second straight year the senior has received the honor.
Van...
Erik Van Rooyen is a professional golfer in a Gophers uniform.
The senior on the men’s golf team has been one of the program’s best golfers since he first set foot on campus. He plans to turn...
The Gophers women’s golf team failed to make the NCAA Tournament for the second-straight year.
Minnesota did not qualify its team or sophomore Carmen Laguna, the team’s top performer this spring,...
Gophers senior Erik Van Rooyen shot 1-over par to finish tied for second at the Big Ten men’s golf championships during the weekend.
Van Rooyen used a 2-under-par opening round and an even-par closing...
The Gophers women’s golf team shot 57-over par to finish eighth out of 12 teams at the Big Ten championships during the weekend.
Minnesota played its best golf in the final round Sunday despite rain...
The Big Ten Conference on Sunday approved new East and West divisions that will begin in 2014. The conference also approved a nine game conference schedule beginning in 2016, ESPN reported. The new...
The Gophers women’s golf team purposely stayed home the past two weekends to prepare for the Big Ten championships.
A busy spring schedule, with practice on the first day of spring semester, took...
The Gophers men’s golf team shot 44-over par to finish tied for third out of 14 teams at the Rutherford Intercollegiate during the weekend.
Binghamton University shot 38-over par to win the tournament,...
Gophers gymnasts Lindsay Mable and Hanna Nordquist capped impressive freshman seasons with top-five finishes in the event finals at the NCAA championships Sunday in Los Angeles.
Mable tied for fourth place...
Gophers sophomore gymnast Ellis Mannon finished second in the pommel horse finals Sunday at the NCAA championships in University Park, Pa.
Mannon scored 14.9 on the apparatus to take the lead, but Ohio...
Gophers gymnast Ellis Mannon will compete in the pommel horse finals at the NCAA championships on Sunday afternoon. The sophomore finished second on the apparatus Saturday night with a score of 15.0....
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team finished fourth out of six teams at its NCAA championships semifinal session on Friday.
Minnesota scored 196.375 in its first NCAA championships appearance since...
The Gophers men’s gymnastics team finished fourth out of six teams in the first of two NCAA championships qualifying sessions on Friday.
Minnesota scored 424.7 as a team, two points behind third...
Jim and Meg Stephenson sat between the stacked tumbling mats and the spring-loaded floor apparatus in Peik Gymnasium on campus Saturday afternoon.
Gymnastics practice had just ended, and the excited cheers...
Jon DuToit knows he only needs one tournament to get his consistency back.
The freshman on the Gophers men’s golf team inserted himself in the Gophers lineup this year, but he’s missed much...
The Gophers men’s golf team earned its best finish of the season during the weekend at the Hawkeye Invitational.
Minnesota finished tied for third out of 12 teams with a score of 16-over par at the...
John Carlson is ready for sunshine.
The Gophers men’s golf coach said Minnesota’s winter weather has impaired his team’s ability to practice this spring.
The problem is especially challenging...
The goal is the same every week for the Gophers men’s gymnastics team: hit all 30 routines.
Minnesota accomplished its goal for the first time this season Friday night in front of an energetic crowd...
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team is going back to the NCAA championships.
Minnesota finished second at its NCAA regional in Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday night to advance to its first championship...
The Gophers women’s golf team shot 56-over par to finish 15th out of 18 teams at the Rebel Intercollegiate during the weekend.
Coastal Carolina University won the tournament with a 1-under par score...
The Gophers women's golf team is 12th out of 18 teams after two rounds at the Rebel Intercollegiate in Mississippi. Minnesota shot rounds of 15-over par and 20-over par, respectively, at the Ole Miss...
The Gophers men's gymnastics team finished third out of seven teams Friday night at the Big Ten championships. Michigan won the title with a score of 438.9 and Penn State finished second. Minnesota hosted...
The season is on the line for the Gophers women’s gymnastics team this weekend in Florida.
Minnesota will compete against five teams in its NCAA regional Saturday in Gainesville, Fla. The Gophers...
Robert Bell struggled to find his confidence and his golf swing last fall.
Now he has it back.
The senior on the Gophers men’s golf team has mostly returned to form halfway through the spring season.
Bell...
The Gophers men’s golf team used its best team score in three years to tie for 12th out of 18 teams at the U.S. Intercollegiate tournament during the weekend.
Minnesota shot 18-over par at the Stanford...
The Gophers women's gymnastics team will head to Gainesville, Fla., for its NCAA Regional competition April 6, the NCAA announced Monday. The Gophers are the No. 2 seed in their regional behind the...
The Gophers men’s golf team shot 30-over par to finish 13th out of 14 teams at the Linger Longer Invitational on Sunday.
Alabama won the tournament at 16-under par with a team score of 560 at the...
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team finished third at the Big Ten championships Saturday night in East Lansing, Mich.
A week after Minnesota and Michigan shared the first-ever Big Ten regular season...
Janell Campbell wrote down the top-100 goals she wanted to accomplish in her life at age 10.
She knew what she wanted: a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics at a Big Ten school.
Campbell accomplished...
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team knows it has a lot of work to do before the Big Ten championships.
Saturday night was a step in the right direction.
Minnesota beat No. 12 Nebraska and No....
The Gophers softball team went 3-2 on the weekend at the Stanford Louisville Slugger Classic in Palo Alto, Calif.
Minnesota (13-9) won a pair of games over Pacific University but lost a pair to host Stanford....
The Gophers women’s golf team shot 40-over par to finish eighth out of 16 teams at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz.
Minnesota shot a team score of 904 at the Longbow Golf Club — its best score...
The Gophers softball team is 2-2 heading into the final day of the Stanford Louisville Slugger Classic. Minnesota split its games Saturday - a 9-7 loss to Stanford and a 4-2 win over Pacific.
The...
The Gophers women’s golf team is eighth out of 16 teams after two rounds at the Clover Cup in Mesa, Ariz. Minnesota shot 24-over par through its first 36 holes at the Longbow Golf Club. Oklahoma...
Friday night will be a first for college gymnastics.
Minnesota and Illinois will experiment with a new competition format and scoring system in hopes of making the meet easier for fans to follow.
Both...
The Gophers men’s gymnastics team got revenge during the weekend for its first loss of the season three weeks ago at Iowa.
The No. 6 Gophers beat the No. 8 Hawkeyes at the Sports Pavilion by more...
Jenny Covers wasn’t content last season competing in only one event.
The sophomore on the women’s gymnastics team was a vault specialist as a freshman.
She told herself when last season ended...
The Gophers men’s golf team shot 8-over par to finish seventh out of 14 teams at the Snowman Getaway Invitational in Goodyear, Ariz.
Minnesota on Monday shot its lowest round of the season, 287,...
Gophers men's golf player Jon Trasamar is tied for second after two rounds of the WSU Snowman Getaway Invitational. The junior shot rounds of 1-under par and 4-under par Monday at the Palm Valley Golf...
The Gophers men’s gymnastics team defeated Illinois-Chicago on Sunday afternoon in Chicago, halting a two-meet losing streak.
Minnesota’s win came at a price, though. Junior Zack Chase fractured...
Thursday can be the toughest day of the week for Mike Burns.
The ninth-year head coach of the Gophers men’s gymnastics team watches his team carefully throughout practice and meets, thinking about...
The Gophers women’s golf team shot 57-over par to finish 10th out of 12 teams at the Central District Invitational in Tampa, Fla.
Southern Methodist won the 54-hole tournament at 24-over par.
Gophers...
The Gophers women's golf team is ninth out of 12 teams after day one of the Central District Invitational. Minnesota shot 40-over par through the first two rounds for a team score of 616. Vanderbilt...
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team has solidified itself among the top dozen programs in the country this season.
But what separates the elite teams from the good teams is the ability to consistently...
The Gophers men’s golf team finished tied for ninth at the Big Ten Match Play Championship over the weekend.
Minnesota lost two close matches Friday to Michigan and Penn State at the Concession Golf...
Gophers freshman Daniel DiBenedetto finished seventh on high bar at the Winter Cup finals in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Minnesota sent three athletes to the event. Junior Zack Chase and sophomore Ellis...
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team outlasted Illinois on Saturday night at the Sports Pavilion, pulling away in the final rotation to notch a 196.775-196.35 victory.
Minnesota won all four events...
The Gophers men's golf team started its season Friday at the Big Ten Match Play Championship in Bradenton, Fla. Minnesota lost its opening-round match against Michigan on Friday morning by a score...
Three members of the Gophers men’s gymnastics team will trade the snow and cold of Iowa for the warm and hustle of Las Vegas this weekend.
Daniel DiBenedetto, Zack Chase and Ellis Mannon will compete...
Kayla Slechta came to Minnesota three years ago with the tools to score high on vault.
But she didn’t put it all together until this year.
She won the vault in her first competition as a freshman...
The Gophers women’s golf team finished sixth out of 16 teams in its season-opening Hurricane Invitational on Monday and Tuesday in Coral Gables, Fla.
Minnesota shot 69-over par in the 54-hole event....
The Gophers women’s golf team shot 37-over par in the opening day of the Hurricane Invitational on Monday in Coral Gables, Fla.
Minnesota is in sixth place out of 16 teams competing in the 54-hole...
The Gophers women's golf team will kick off its season Monday and Tuesday at the Hurricane Invitational. The 54-hole tournament will feature 16 teams and will be held at Deering Bay Yacht & Country...
An energized Gophers men’s gymnastics team used season-high scores on three events to beat Nebraska and Illinois-Chicago on Saturday night.
In front of an equally excited Sports Pavilion crowd, No....
Most freshman athletes at the University of Minnesota aren’t expected to play a large role in a team’s success.
The men’s gymnastics team has been an exception in recent years, as many...
When Gophers gymnast Janell Campbell stepped onto the floor Saturday night, her team trailed No. 1 Michigan by less than a tenth of a point.
When she finished her floor exercise, her team had edged the...
Fresh off an all-around win at Penn State in her first road meet with the Gophers and Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, gymnast Lindsay Mable has shown she has the potential to be a mainstay in the...
Randy Handel will be the University of Minnesota's next associate director for development, athletics director Norwood Teague announced Wednesday.
Handel had been serving as the interim for the same...
The Les Bolstad Golf Course and its clubhouse are more than 80 years old. After years of use and disrepair, both need upgrades.
In a report released last month, a task force recommended changes to the...
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team rallied to win its second-straight meet Saturday night at Penn State.
Minnesota trailed Kent State and Penn State after three rotations, but it scored well enough...
Gophers gymnast Lindsay Mable was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Monday. The Aurora, Colo., native won the all-around title Saturday night at Penn State with a score of 39.325. She scored a 9.800...
The task force created in September to determine the cost of a renovation to Les Bolstad Golf Course has released its recommendations.
In a report released last month, the task force recommended changes...
The University of Minnesota brought in more than $907,000 in alcohol sales at TCF Bank Stadium this season.
Gross sales for each of the Gophers’ seven home games averaged $129,610, University officials...
University of Wisconsin athletics director Barry Alvarez will earn $118,500 for coaching the Badgers in the Rose Bowl. The former head coach of the team from 1990 to 2005, Alvarez will receive...
The Gophers women’s basketball team defeated Missouri-Kansas City 87-49 on Friday night at Williams Arena.
Minnesota (8-3) never trailed en route to tying its highest point total this season.
Sophomore...
The University of Minnesota’s athletics department raised more than $89,000 in sales over Black Friday weekend, department spokesman Garry Bowman said.
That’s about an 80 percent increase from...
A down year in the Big Ten Conference will likely cause the University of Minnesota to receive less money from football bowl revenues despite the team's first postseason appearance since 2009.
On Sunday,...
Former Gophers golfer Donald Constable has earned a PGA Tour card for the 2013 season. Constable became the fourth player from the University to earn full-time PGA Tour status.
Constable, a former All-Big...
The Atlantic Coast Conference has found a replacement for Maryland as its 14th member.
Louisville, a member of the Big East Conference, will likely join the ACC starting in 2014, the same year Maryland...
The new work group in charge of creating the University of Minnesota’s first-ever child safety policy began meeting this month in response to the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal.
The group, which...
The Atlantic Coast Conference filed a lawsuit Monday against the University of Maryland, saying the school is bound by conference laws to pay its nearly $53 million exit fee in order to join the Big Ten...
The Big Ten Conference has expanded for the second day in a row.
Rutgers University announced Tuesday it would become the 14th member of the conference.
On Monday, the University of Maryland accepted an...
Tyler Shukert left Japan in 2009 thinking his short-lived handball career would end.
Shukert said he gave up playing handball because he thought no team existed in the U.S.
But later that year, a friend...
The University of Maryland accepted an invitation Monday to become the 13th member of the Big Ten Conference.
Maryland will leave the Atlantic Coast Conference and join the Big Ten in 2014. Rutgers, a...
Maryland is the newest member of the Big Ten Conference.
The university's Board of Regents voted unanimouslyMonday to leave the Atlantic Coast Conference for the Big Ten. The Big Ten Council...
Big East conference football will feature two divisions beginning in 2013, according to a news release.
Conference commissioner Mike Aresco said Tuesday there will be East and West divisions of six teams...
For fifth- and sixth-grade students, the University of Minnesota can be a strange place. The pace of life is faster, and the environment is vastly different from anything they know.
Some have never been...
University President Eric Kaler has named the members of a committee that will create a new policy on child safety.
According to a letter sent to the six members of the committee last week, Kaler is asking...
Men's basketball head coach Tom Crean agreed to a contract extension to keep him with Indiana through the 2019-20 season.
Indiana athletics director Fred Glass brought the sold-out crowd...
Two Minnesota student-athletes will be honored by the Big Ten after they graduate as part of a new scholarship fund.
The conference last week announced the establishment of an annual...
The Gophers women’s basketball team started its season by winning the Best Buy Classic at Williams Arena over the weekend.
The Gophers triumphed 87-83 in double overtime Saturday against Washington...
The University of Iowa athletics employee who resigned last week is facing allegations of sexual harassment, according to an internal investigation.
Peter Gray, a senior academic advisor who resigned last...
The Gophers women’s basketball team started its season with an 87-83 double-overtime victory over Washington State on Saturday at Williams Arena.
With the win, Minnesota advances to the championship...
NCAA President Mark Emmert doubts that college sports’ governing body will relax its drug standards for student-athletes now that two states have legalized recreational marijuana use, The Associated...
The Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team lost one of its assistant coaches Wednesday.
Bill Butters, a former University of Minnesota player and assistant coach, was in his third season with Wisconsin's...
Terry Steinbach walked into manager Tony La Russa’s office expecting to hear good news.
The Oakland Athletics catcher thought he was going to be praised for his excellent hitting. Instead, La Russa...
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was formally charged Thursday for hiding child sex-abuse complaints against Jerry Sandusky.
Prosecutors charged Spanier with participating in a "conspiracy...
Gophers freshman defenseman Milica McMillen was named the WCHA's Rookie of the Week on Wednesday. McMillen became the third Gophers player to receive the award this season, joining Hannah Brandt and...
Head coaches at Division I universities can be suspended for major violations by their assistants and coaching staffs, according to new NCAA enforcement rules.
The policy was among several changes the...
University of Minnesota student-athletes are seeing higher graduation rates, posting a record-high Graduation Success Rate of 83 percent, according to the NCAA’s 2012 GSR report released this week.
The...
UConn coach Geno Auriemma thinks lowering the rim of women's basketball hoops may help its popularity.
Auriemma told the Hartford Courant that some fans don't want to watch women's basketball...
The Gophers women’s golf team finished its fall season play Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Minnesota finished sixth out of 18 teams in the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown at the Stallion Mountain Golf Course.
The...
The Gophers women’s hockey team swept Ohio State over the weekend in a physical battle between the top two teams in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
The No. 1 Gophers (8-0-0) extended their...
Minnesota defeated Ohio State 8-0 on Saturday at Ridder Arena. Gophers goalie Noora Räty picked up her 83rd career win, tying her with Jody Horak for the most in school history.
In a matchup...
The Gophers women’s hockey team beat Ohio State 7-2 on Friday in a physical battle between the top two teams in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.
Minnesota (7-0-0) extended its winning streak...
Minnesota men’s golfers faced some of the nation’s top competition this week in
Alabama.
The Gophers finished 11th out of 12 teams at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate on Tuesday.
The...
In response to Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, the University of Minnesota reviewed its own compliance policies last week.
University President Eric Kaler led the Board of Regents...
The Gophers women’s golf team finished third at the Hoosier Fall Invitational on Sunday.
Led by sophomore Carmen Laguna’s second-place overall finish, the Gophers combined to finish 10 shots...
The Gophers women’s swimming and diving team defeated Iowa State 144-140 in its first home meet of the season Friday at the University Aquatic Center.
The defending Big Ten champion women won all...
