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Student-athlete academic support

Study hall, travel-week planning and eligibility monitoring for the roughly 500 Ironclad athletes.

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What it covers

Structured study hall hours, tutoring coordinated with the campus tutoring centers, help mapping assignments around a travel-heavy season, and continuous checks that each athlete is meeting the credit and GPA rules that keep them eligible — caught in September, not at the end of the term.

Not a shortcut

The support is logistical and academic-skills focused; athletes take the same courses, sit the same exams, and are held to the same standards as everyone else. The point is that a bus to a Saturday game doesn't cost someone a class.

In and around Porter Falls

The Ironclads compete in NCAA Division III as members of the Wesconsin Collegiate Athletic Conference, and home events are at the Ironhouse Athletic Center and the riverside fields off North Campus. Millrace Week in October is still built around the homecoming football game.

The practical details

Where: A dedicated space in the Ironhouse Athletic Center. Study hall: Required for first-year athletes and anyone below a GPA threshold. Travel: Faculty notification and a plan for missed work before every road trip. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.

If you have a question

The office behind this is Ironclad Athletics (Ironhouse Athletic Center). Call (715) 555–0195 or email athletics@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.

Fictional information

UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.