2013 UW-Platteville Football News

For the 14th consecutive year, the UW-Platteville student-athletes had a higher grade point average than the student body as a whole. The Pioneer student-athletes compiled a 2.955 grade-point average for the 2013-14 academic year, above the general student body overall grade-point average of 2.89.

The UW-Platteville Athletic Department announced an estimated $4 million renovation project to Ralph E. Davis Pioneer Stadium during Friday’s Celebration of George Chryst.
Join us and celebrate the legacy of the late head football coach George Chryst on Friday, June 13. We’ll gather with his wife Patty, family, friends, and former team members to pay tribute to Coach Chryst’s remarkable career and the impact he had on all the individual lives he touched.
Join us and celebrate the legacy of the late head football coach George Chryst on Friday, June 13. We’ll gather with his wife Patty, family, friends, and former team members to pay tribute to Coach Chryst’s remarkable career and the impact he had on all the individual lives he touched.

There was nothing that the late George Chryst thought impossible, whether it were to build up a championship football program at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, bring the Chicago Bears to Southwest Wisconsin for training camp or convince University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant Coach Bo Ryan to become the Pioneers’ head basketball coach.

Former Pioneer John Kelly as agreed to play for Vantaa TAFT of the American Football Association of Finland.

The Pioneer football team hosts its 16th annual golf outing on May 3 at the Platteville Country Club.

Head Coach Mike Emendorfer was named WIAC Coach of the Year, and Assistant Head Coach/Special Team Coordinator/ Defensive Backs Coach Ulz Daeuber was named WIAC Assistant Coach of the Year by the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association (WFCA).

The UW-Platteville football team celebrated a great 2013 season on Sunday at the Pioneers annual postseason banquet, where senior John Kelly was named team MVP.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Rob Austin and John Kelly were named 2013 third team All-American by D3football.com.

UW-Platteville's Zach Litchfield accepted an invitation to the D3 Senior Classic, which will be played on Friday in Salem, Va.

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville garnered six D3football.com 2013 All-West Region selections.

The UW-Platteville football team’s great 2013 season came to an end on Saturday as the seventh-ranked Pioneers fell to fourth-ranked North Central, 52-24, in the second round of the NCAA Division III Football Championship at Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium.

The seventh-ranked UW-Platteville football team travels to fourth-ranked North Central (Ill.) for the second round of the NCAA Division III Football Championship on Saturday at Benedetti-Wehfli Stadium.

The UW-Platteville football team showed no signs of post-season nerves, as the host Pioneers beat Concordia (Wis.) 54-20 in the first NCAA Division III playoff game in school history Saturday.