Eye of the Swarm Podcast

Softball coach Melissa Fracker and senior Olivia Bancroft-Hart join Jon Garver and Matt Johnson on this week's Eye of the Swarm Podcast.

This week on the podcast Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by head coach Allison DeGroot and senior Emma Street from the Yellowjacket women's soccer team to talk about their impressive and record-setting start to the 2021 spring season.

This week hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Joe Mooney and Archie Gjerdrum of the Yellowjacket men's soccer team to talk about the start to their spring season.

This week Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined on the show by Frank Pufall head coach of the Yellowjacket baseball team and lefthander Dante Bender, on the heels of the team's six-game winning streak.

This week on the show Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Yellowjacket head men's hockey coach Rich McKenna and senior defenseman Lawson McDonald as they look back on the 2021 season that ended with the Yellowjackets winning the WIAC Championship.

On the show this week hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Dan Laughlin, head coach of the Yellowjacket women's hockey team to talk about their season and their upcoming playoff game against UW-Eau Claire.

This week, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined on the pod by Glen Drexler, head men's track and field coach and junior Tyler Finger in advance of the 2021 UMAC Indoor Track and Field Championships.

On this week's episode, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down with Yellowjacket men's basketball coach Greg Polkowski and freshman Josh Reinertsen to talk about the season to date, including all the stops and starts due to COVID-19.

This week on Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined for an entertaining round table discussion by Ceejay Schaffner, head coach of the Yellowjacket tennis teams and Maya Callaway of the Yellowjacket women's tennis team.

This week, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk basketball with Zach Otto-Fisher, head coach of the Yellowjacket women's basketball team, and team member, sophomore guard Mady Sanders, following the team's 2-0 start in 2021.

This week, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk about a return to sports for the Yellowjackets, and in the second segment they're joined by Rich McKenna, the head coach of the Yellowjacket men's hockey team. The Yellowjacket hockey teams will be the first UW-Superior teams to face outside competition in 2021.

This week, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk about the passing of Minnesota high school basketball coaching legend Bob McDonald and are then joined by Yellowjacket head men's basketball coach Greg Polkowski to talk about the roles of coaches and the impact they have on student-athletes.

This week, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson enjoy a great conversation with Melissa Fracker, the new softball coach at UW-Superior. Learn about how coach arrived here, how she and her team are navigating the pandemic, and catch a great round of Rapid Fire.

It's been a while, but we're back with Season 2 of Eye of the Swarm! This week hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down with UW-Superior Director of Athletics Nick Bursik to talk about the wild ride that has been the past six months, and what the future looks like for Yellowjacket Athletics.

We're back with another episode from the basement. This week, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson welcome senior men's golfer Joey Cummings to Eye of the Swarm. A longtime listener of the Swarm, Cummings offers his views on what COVID-19 did to the spring sports season, which was supposed to include the Yellowjackets heading to nationals.

It's been a while, and we're glad to be back, loyal listeners. This week Jon Garver and Matt Johnson return to the air and have a conversation with UW-Superior athletics director Nick Bursik about the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes the cancellation of the spring sports season.

This week join hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson for a deep dive into the conclusion of the season for most of the winter sports on campus. Special guest this week is Yellowjacket women's basketball head coach Zach Otto-Fisher.

SPECIAL GUEST ALERT - on episode 20 of Eye of the Swarm hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson get away from campus and spend a few minutes with Corey Borchardt, the commissioner of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference during UMAC Championship Week.

Episode 19 of Eye of the Swarm has Yellowjacket men's hockey coach Rich McKenna joining hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson to talk hockey and offer a playoff preview, with his team opening WIAC tournament play this weekend.

This week on Episode 18 of Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Vid Milenkovic, a senior on the Yellowjacket men's basketball team. Vid is poised to become the next member of the 1,000-point club at UW-Superior.

On Episode 17 of Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down for a state of the department conversation with Nick Bursik, Director of Athletics at UW-Superior.

On Episode 16 of Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down for a get-to-know conversation with the new head coach of the Yellowjacket men's and women's tennis programs, CeeJay Schaffner.

On Episode 15 of Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Greg Polkowski, head coach of the UMAC-leading Yellowjacket men's basketball season to talk about the year so far, and what to expect down the stretch.

On episode 14 of Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Andrew Durham, a senior on the Yellowjacket men's hockey team, who this week is ranked 11th in the nation.

On episode 13 of Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Eva Reinertsen, a senior on the Yellowjacket women's basketball team, who is poised to become the next 1,000 point scorer in program history.