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February 13, 2024

UConn partners with Accelerate Sports Ventures for NIL resources

UConn is enhancing its already robust student-athlete NIL resources through a partnership with Accelerate Sports Ventures. The firm will serve as a consultant for the athletic department in the NIL space and support the NIL activities of all Husky...


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September 26, 2022

UConn Launches NIL Marketplace for Student-Athletes

The University of Connecticut has expanded its partnership with Opendorse to include an official Name, Image, and Likeness Marketplace, which will allow for UConn student-athletes to engage in NIL activity with fans, and local and national sponsors m...


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September 7, 2021

UConn’s Edsall Retires; Spanos Named Interim Head Coach

Randy Edsall and director of athletics David Benedict have come to the mutual decision that it is in the best interest of the UConn football program for Edsall to step aside immediately as head football coach. Edsall, who is in the fifth year of h...


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July 7, 2021

Geno Auriemma Weighs In on New NCAA Rule

With the NCAA adopting new interim policies regarding student-athletes to profit off their name, image, and likeness, industry leaders are weighing in on what it could mean for the future of their respective sports. Take UConn women's basketball h...


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May 26, 2021

UConn Sports Medicine Adds Foot & Ankle Program

With backgrounds in athletics and 25 years in private practice, married podiatrists Drs. Karla and Michael Scanlon joined the Foot and Ankle Program at UConn Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in February 2020, seeing patients in Storrs and Willi...


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May 24, 2021

UConn Breaks Ground for New Ice Hockey Arena

Saturday, May 22, 2021, will mark the beginning of a new era for the UConn men's and women's hockey programs with the official groundbreaking for the brand-new UConn Ice Hockey Arena on Jim Calhoun Way. Joining current and former hockey student-at...


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May 17, 2021

UConn Basketball Names Gavin Roberts Director of Sports Performance

UConn coach Dan Hurley has announced the hiring of Gavin Roberts as the director of sports performance for men's basketball, pending the completion of the university's employee onboarding process. Roberts, 31, has been the head strength and condit...


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August 5, 2020

UConn Football Cancels 2020-21 Season

There will be no touchdowns scored in Storrs, Connecticut this fall. On Wednesday, August 5, the University of Connecticut, an NCAA Division 1 program, announced the Huskies will not play a football season this fall, according to a press release i...