Since its creation in 1974, the Women’s Sports Foundation has honored and helped nurture the careers of female athletes.
Wednesday marked the WSF’s annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, and not many schools are better suited toward exemplifying the organization’s ideals than the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin women’s sports programs consistently rank among the top in the nation, most notably in hockey (4-time NCAA champions), volleyball (two-time NCAA runner up) and soccer (NCAA runner up and 17 NCAA tournament appearances).
Attendance figures for these games are also extremely high compared to national averages. Last season, Wisconsin women’s hockey brought in the second largest average crowd in NCAA women’s hockey with an average of 1,992 fans per game.