Anya Covington, Basketball, Edwardsville, Ill.
Talks about baseball players Adelbert Matthews and Julian Ware, the first black athletes to represent the University of Wisconsin on the athletic field. Matthews, a pitcher, and Ware, a power hitting first baseman, led UW to its first Big Ten baseball title in 1902.
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Montee Ball, Football, Wentzville, Mo.
Talks about football assistant coach Les Ritcherson who, in 1966, was the first African-American to join a University of Wisconsin coaching staff. He became one of the first African-American academic administrators at UW-Madison when he accepted a job in 1970 as an Assistant to the Chancellor for Affirmative Action.
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Aaron Henry, Football, Immokalee, Fla.
Talks about Leo Vinton Butts who was the first known African-American on the football field as a lineman on the 1918 varsity squad. He later gave up football to concentrate on his coursework and, in 1920, Butts became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy.
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Alexis Beecham, Women's Track, Madison, Wis.
Talks about 400-meter national champion Pam Moore. A two-sport athlete as a freshman in basketball and track, Moore was a 10-time Big Ten Conference champion in the 400-meter dash and relays.
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Nick Toon, Football, Madison, Wis.
Records a moment in UW's Black History about Little Rock Arkansas-native Sidney B. Williams, Jr., who was the first African-American starting quarterback in the modern Big Ten Conference from 1956-1958.
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Alexis Mitchell, Volleyball, Davenport, Iowa
Talks about Lee Kemp, the first, and only, Wisconsin wrestler to win three NCAA championships, and the first African-American three-time national champion in the history of the NCAA tournament.
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Ryan Gasper, Men's Track, Ft. Atkinson, Wis.
Records a moment in UW's Black History about UW hurdler Ed Smith and the University of Wisconsin's refusal to take part in a meet at Missouri in 1939 because the host school refused to allow African-Americans to compete.
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Alando Tucker, Men's Basketball, Lockport, Ill.
Records a moment in UW's Black History that leads to Athletic Board Resolution Opposing Jim Crow Lodging Arrangements, 1958
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Janese Banks, Women's Basketball, Indianapolis, Ind.
Discusses Julian Ware and Adelbert Matthews who were the first African-American varsity athletes at the University of Wisconsin as members of the 1900 Badger baseball team. Ware captained the team and was the first African-American to captain a team in the Big Ten Conference
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Paul Hubbard, Football, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Talks about William Exum, who in 1929, was the first African-American on UW's varsity football team. He also honors Ed Withers who was the first African-Americans to earn All-American honors as a member of the Badgers "Hard Rocks" defense in 1951.
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Chavon Robinson, Women's Track, Milwaukee, Wis.
Explains that George Poage, the first African-American on the Wisconsin track and field team, qualified for the 1904 Olympic Games taking home the bronze medals in the 220 and 440-yard hurdles becoming the first African-American to win an Olympic medal.
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Ann Eshun, Women's Soccer
Three-time NCAA long jump champion Pat Johnson was the first female African-American student-athlete to earn All-American honors at Wisconsin (1978-82).
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Chris Pressley, Football
In 1976, the University of Wisconsin hired Bill Cofield and Edwina Qualls as the first men's and women's African-American basketball coaches in the Big Ten Conference.
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Valyncia Raphael, Softball
Sprinter Gilda Hudson-Winfield became the first female African-American athlete and scholarship recipient at the University of Wisconsin.
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