{"id":749907,"date":"2026-07-08T05:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749907\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:38:25","slug":"director-of-athletics-shawn-eichorst-introductory-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/749907\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst Introductory Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, Wis. \u2013 The University of Wisconsin will formally introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/uwbadgers.com\/staff-directory\/shawn-eichorst\/1325\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1325\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Eichorst<\/a>, UW&#8217;s new director of athletics, with a pair of events on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can follow the introductory events live across multiple platforms using the schedule below:&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t4:15 p.m. CT | Introductory Welcome Event: UW interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots will recognize Eichorst and his family at a welcome event featuring comments from both Wilcots and Eichorst. The event includes a Q&amp;A session moderated by the Voice of the Badgers, Matt Lepay.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t5 p.m. CT | Formal Press Conference: Following the welcome event, the official introductory press conference featuring Wilcots and Eichorst will take place.&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. \u2013 The University of Wisconsin will formally introduce Shawn Eichorst, UW&#8217;s new director of athletics, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-749907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}