2025 UW-Whitewater Photos of the Year
January 14, 2026
Written by Chris Lindeke | Photos and commentary by Craig Schreiner, Salmai Valadez, and Kyle Winter
Photos capture a moment in time, and students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater shared many memorable moments during a busy 2025 calendar year.
Many members of the Warhawk family saw our achievements from the year captured on video, but sometimes it just takes a single frame to tell a Warhawk Bold story.
In the past year, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble performed at world-famous Carnegie Hall in New York City, the American Marketing Association chapter retained its national chapter of the year title, the Warhawk baseball team earned its third national championship, and the Enactus chapter represented the United States at the Enactus World Cup.
In the fall, UW-Whitewater’s enrollment passed 12,000 students on the strength of the largest freshman class in 10 years, and the university was named Wisconsin’s top public institution for student experience and social mobility by The Wall Street Journal.
Relive some of the top stories — and moments — from 2025 through the lenses of Craig Schreiner, our campus photographer and writer, Salmai Valadez, our digital media specialist, and Kyle Winter, our campus video storyteller.
The Dance Team performs at halftime. The No. 19 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's basketball team topped UW-Platteville 67-50 in Kachel Gym on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
On the eve of the spring semester, students in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble rehearsed with their conductor Glenn Hayes, professor of music, in the Greenhill Center of the Arts on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Darius Anderson, a UW-Whitewater alum who earned a master's degree in safety in 2020, hosted a group of safety professionals from the American Society for Safety Professionals, or ASSP, for a tour of American Family Field on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Anderson is senior director of risk management for the Milwaukee Brewers. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Kimberly Kostka, a chemistry professor and interim associate dean in the College of Integrated Studies, poses on the Rock County campus with a molecular model of ice in her lab on April 21, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner).
Students from Omega Psi Phi fraternity and Delta Sigma Theta sorority walk to a staging area for students involved in the downtown Whitewater cleanup. Make a Difference Day brought out hundreds of students from many organizations to pick up litter in the downtown area, clear the way for garden flowers and vegetables, beautify campus, and work with seniors on Friday, April 25, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner).
Sevyn Fashion Modeling Troupe, one of dozens of student organizations at UW-Whitewater, presents a fashion show of original designs on April 4, 2025, at Crossman Gallery in the Greenhill Center of the Arts. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Students in their residence hall room on May 12, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Graduating seniors Bailey Malueg, a finance major from Caroline, and Lydia Petersen, a management major from Woodruff, pause for a photo after Lydia received her gold Army stole at the Military Stole Ceremony in the nearby University Center on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Graduating student veterans and military service members wore their stoles at commencement on Saturday, May 17, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Noah Brockway, a music major from South Beloit, Illinois, who is working a campus job as a safety officer with campus police, practices in the Campus Memory Garden after a rain on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. He already is practicing for his solo recital, which will be in February 2026. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
The national champion UW-Whitewater baseball team is celebrated with a parade around campus and on Main Street, above, on Thursday, June 5, 2025, to celebrate their win in the Division III World Series on Wednesday. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Chancellor Corey A. King continues his tradition of taking a selfie onstage in the Hamilton Room of the University Center with some of the new students at the SOAR program. New students with their family members and friends visited campus on Tuesday, June 11, 2025, as the series of SOAR orientation days continued. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
"Our Stories. Our Future.” campaign co-chairs John '82 and Wendy Buckley speak to the audience. UW-Whitewater kicked off the largest philanthropic effort in its history on June 12, 2025, at Prucha Field at James B. Miller Stadium, the home of the Division III national baseball champion Warhawks. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Paris Paralympics gold medalist Jeromie Meyer works with a young player. Wheelchair basketball is a signature sport at UW-Whitewater, and wheelchair basketball camps like the one that took place on June 18, 2025, are an opportunity for young players to learn from Paralympians. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Cora Schutte, a music major from Footville, pauses along a sidewalk next to the University Center in the late afternoon to enjoy the fragrance of flowers on Monday, June 30, 2025. She was on campus working in the University Center. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Alumna Lisa Werner applauds her orchestra after they played their own composition on the theme of the Antarctic on July 18, 2025. Werner participated in research in Antarctica as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow with National Geographic. She uses her experience to inspire her students. Every summer, the Department of Music hosts band camps for high school and middle school students where campers play and compose music and make friends. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
From left, Chris Drew, Aidan Deets, Trey Ripley and Jayahr Short, all arts and science students who are longtime friends and high school classmates from Milton, display their handprints. Students coming to the UW-Whitewater Rock County campus in the fall semester attended a welcome day and initiated a new tradition — adding their handprints to a wall of the tunnel between Williams Hall and Wells Cultural Center — on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Peer mentor Emma Johnson, a communication sciences and disorders major from Muskego, cheers for her group. Tradition is at the forefront of activities, starting with peer mentors leading their groups of first-year students in the annual painting of Warhawk Drive, on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
After first-year students ran onto the field at Perkins Stadium, assembled into a UWW formation in the stands for a class picture, and learned the Warhawk Strut, they left the annual RU Purple Rally as full-fledged Warhawks on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Sydney Griffin, a journalism major from Milwaukee, cheers on the Warhawks. In its home opener on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, the Warhawk football team defeated Carleton College 45-14 at Perkins Stadium. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
With the University Center in the background, student organizations were on display for the annual Involvement Fair, traditionally held on the North Mall the second week of classes in the fall semester, this year on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Minneiska Springs is in the front. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Kristin Brecht, an accounting major from Antioch, Illinois, connects with “Oakley,” brought by Maria Kruse. Students enjoy a break with volunteer dogs and their owners in Andersen Library during Pet Therapy on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Preem Nutnicha, an international student from Thailand who is an international business major and a member of UW-Whitewater Enactus, leads a parade of club members. She is one of 20 members of the UW-Whitewater Enactus team who traveled to Thailand to represent the United States at the Enactus World Cup. Their campus sendoff included a parade with a fire truck and a reception on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. Student Enactus chapters worldwide employ business principles to develop humanitarian projects. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Associate Professor Nate Maddux, second from right, with a group of his Spanish students in front of a mural at the Rock County campus on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Delta Zeta members celebrate along the parade route. The rain did not dampen Homecoming spirits on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025, as student organizations turned out to strut like Warhawks along Main and Prairie Streets. (UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)
An ofrenda set for Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead holiday, for deceased loved ones in Roberta’s Art Gallery in the University Center is ready for a reception on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. Ofrendas are decorated with photos of the departed, flowers, candles, and food and drinks. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Veterans from across the university and the broader community pose for a picture after the Veterans Day ceremony. UW-Whitewater honored its student, campus and community veterans with a ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in the Hamilton Room of the University Center. (UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)
Lexi Stremlow, a physical education major from Verona, uses American Sign Language to teach an activity. Students who are learning to teach adapted sports hosted grades 6-8 from Lakeland School in Elkhorn for games and activities at the Williams Center on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. The adapted sports class is taught by Kathleen Happel, lecturer of kinesiology. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Bri Gaulin, an environmental science major from Orfordville, is interviewed at Research in the Rotunda. UW-Whitewater student researchers visited the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison to join in Research in the Rotunda, the annual event highlighting undergraduate research in all of the Universities of Wisconsin, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Ornamental trees are in full flower on campus near Hyer Hall during finals week on May 14, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Beto Patino Luna, a geography and physics major from Janesville, at Upham Hall on Sept. 26, 2025. Eleven subjects were profiled for the 2025 celebration of first-generation college students. (UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)
The strength, focus and precision of gymnastics are captured in a single moment on bars by Ariana Goodwin, showing the discipline and timing behind the sport, in the Williams Center on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Samai Valadez)
Douglas A. Bradley III’s genuine reaction to being crowned Homecoming Royalty reflects the emotion of Homecoming Week on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Salmai Valadez)
The Warhawk Marching Band joins the Warhawk baseball team on the outfield at American Family Field. The team was celebrated before the Brewers game on Sept. 26, 2025, for winning the NCAA Division III national championship in June 2025. (UW-Whitewater Photo/Kyle Winter)
Mallory Oloffson (12), a human performance major, shoots the ball in the fourth quarter. The No. 17 Warhawks women's basketball team pushed No. 7 UW-Oshkosh to overtime, but the Titans rallied to win 59-52 in Kachel Gymnasium on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Art major Mars Henne, from Mazomanie, molds clay in her hands during a group project on March 12, 2025. Artist Cristina Cordova worked remotely with students before coming to campus for an in-person group project, public lecture and exhibition at Crossman Gallery. Cordova, an artist from North Carolina, is the 2025 Annette and Dale Schuh Visiting Artist. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Graduate Victoria Bustos, an international studies major from Milwaukee, listens in the closing moments of the afternoon ceremony. UW-Whitewater held its spring commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at Kachel Fieldhouse. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Professor John Ejnik produces a momentary burst of light and sound as he bursts a balloon filled with a combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases. With help from Willie Warhawk and student assistants, chemistry professor John Ejnik awed an audience with his science demo program, “Bedtime Dreams—The Mystical World of Chemistry,” at Upham Hall on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. The program was done in conjunction with this month’s Wisconsin Science Festival. (UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)
Simone Burnett, left, an international business major from La Valle, works with Ginger Mayer at Fairhaven, a local retirement community, as the two make dog biscuits for local animal care facilities. Students in campus learning communities cleaned, painted, and harvested on campus as well as warmed some hearts in the community on their annual fall day of service on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (UW-Whitewater photo/Craig Schreiner)
Tight end Collin Fritts (86), an occupational safety major from Woodville, watches from the sideline. For a throwback feeling, Friday night under the lights is seen in black and white. The Warhawks defeated the UW-Stout Blue Devils 34-2 on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, at Perkins Stadium. (UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)
Willie Warhawk responds to the music as the Spirit Rally gets underway. Homecoming Week continued with a Spirit Rally tug-of-war between student organizations and a bonfire at Hamilton Green behind McGraw Hall on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)
Lia Caruso '21, left, alum and student affairs manager at the University Center, reacts as Michael Nielsen, also an alum, proposes marriage to her on the field during halftime. She was on the field as a homecoming committee adviser, and both of them participated in the Alumni Band performance with the Warhawk Marching Band. The Warhawks defeated UW-Platteville 29-19 on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025, in the annual George Christ Memorial Bowl and Homecoming game at Perkins Stadium. (UW-Whitewater/Craig Schreiner)
