Wisconsin
Wisconsin high school runner beats ban based on technicality, wins state titles
CAMPBELLSPORT, Wis. (CBS) — A Wisconsin high school track star had ruled ineligible to compete because of a technicality— but the ban was reversed, and over the weekend, he won two state titles.
Josh Onwunili of Campbellsport, Wisconsin—in Fond du Lac County about an hour north of Milwaukee—had been forbidden from running for Campbellsport High School because his parents weren’t living in the state.
They were in Ghana, in West Africa, working as missionaries.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association rulebook says: “A full-time student… is ineligible for varsity interscholastic competition only at the school within whose attendance boundaries his/her parents reside.”
But the high school sports governing body reversed its decision, and Onwunili was allowed to compete with a special waiver.
He went on to sweep the 100m and 200m state championships this past weekend.
“I made it, I persevered,” Onwunili said. “It wouldn’t have been possible without everybody. Everybody helped along the way, and it’s been amazing.”
Wisconsin state Rep. Jerry O’Connor (R-Fond du Lac) had been working with the WIAA to get the waiver granted so Onwunili could compete.
“All WIAA was ever asked was to ‘LET JOSH RUN!’ And, wow, did he run,” O’Connor said in the statement. “Congratulations Josh!”
With the release of EA Sports College Football 27 right around the corner, it’s fun to look at how the video game sees the Wisconsin Badgers.
These past two seasons have been down years, no doubt, but Luke Fickell did a great job in the portal this offseason and has begun to rebuild what was once one of the most prestigious programs in the nation.
This article can’t possibly include every Badgers player in the game, but their overall rankings range from 64 to 85.
Wisconsin’s sixth-highest-ranked player is a kicker, and that should say everything you need to know about how EA Sports feels about this team.
Highest rated Wisconsin Badgers in CFP27
- 85 Overall
- HB Abu Sama III: 85 Overall
- CB Javan Robinson: 85 Overall
- 84 Overall
- QB Colton Joseph: 84 Overall
- 83 Overall
- DT Hammond Russell IV: 83 Overall
- FS Marvin Burks Jr.: 83 Overall
- 81 Overall
- 80 Overall
- HB Bryan Jackson II
- HB Darrion Dupree
- DT Junior Poyser
- WILL Mason Posa
Of the 10 highest-ranked players, three are running backs. In total, five are on defense, four are on offense, and one is on special teams.
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Reaction to Shawn Eichorst as potentially the next Wisconsin AD
On the Terrace View podcast, John Steppe and Mark Stewart give initial thoughts on reported connection between Shawn Eichorst and open UW AD job.
MADISON – Shawn Eichorst will start as Wisconsin’s athletic director with a higher annual salary than his predecessor.
Eichorst will make an annual salary of $1.6 million along with built-in annual increases and incentives, a university spokesman told the Journal Sentinel.
That is above Chris McIntosh’s $1.5 million annual salary for the 2025-26 academic year. (That consisted of $1 million from the university and $500,000 from the UW Foundation.) McIntosh’s salary was set to increase by $50,000 for each year of his contract, which would have gone through June 30, 2029.
It also is well above Marcus Sedberry’s $875,000 annual salary for the nearly three months when he was interim AD. Sedberry’s salary is set to return to $334,805 “plus any intervening pay adjustments,” according to the offer letter from April.
An open records request from the Journal Sentinel for Eichorst’s contract, which will include more details about the increases and incentives, is pending.
Eichorst previously served as the deputy AD and chief operating officer at Texas for the last eight years. He also was Miami’s AD in 2011-12 and Nebraska’s AD from 2012-17. Before Miami, the Lone Rock native spent five years working with the Badgers under Barry Alvarez.
A 9-year-old child died Tuesday evening after drowning in a western Wisconsin water park.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says first responders were called to the Campfire Cove Aqua Park in Rural Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, around 8:15 p.m.
Though they attempted lifesaving measures, the child died at the scene.
The incident is under investigation, the sheriff’s office says.
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