Welcome to the home of Eye of the Swarm, the official podcast of Yellowjacket Athletics. Join 91.3 FM KUWS sports broadcasters Jon Garver and Matt "The Big Sound" Johnson every week for a deep dive into the world of Yellowjacket sports. Weekly guests will include Yellowjacket coaches and student-athletes as well as leaders from UW-Superior and beyond.
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This week on Eye of the Swarm Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson sit down with head coach Melissa Fracker and senior Lily Hanson from the Yellowjacket softball team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by professor Tom Hansen and his multimedia journalism class to talk about careers in sports and broadcasting. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by head coach TJ Oakes and senior Cole Ondrus of the Yellowjacket baseball team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk with head coach Glen Drexler and Summer Hesseldahl from the Yellowjacket track and field team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by senior captain Gavin Rasmussen and head coach Rich McKenna of the Yellowjacket men's hockey team that recently won the WIAC regular season title. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by head coach CeeJay Schaffner and Mateo Abarca Pino to talk about the second half of the Yellowjacket tennis season. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by head coach Emily Carpenter and senior guard Elise Besonen to talk about the 2024-25 Yellowjacket women's basketball season. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Veda Roeske and head coach Bre Simon join the show to talk about the start of the 2024-25 season. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by Reid Johnson and head coach Greg Polkowski of the Yellowjacket men's basketball team to talk about the start of the season. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk with Corey Borchardt, commissioner of the UMAC. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by senior William Maanstroem and head coach Joe Mooney of the Yellowjacket men's soccer team, which recently punched its ticket to the NCAA tournament. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by Jenna Anderson and Ella Kapus, captains of the Yellowjacket volleyball team.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Zach Reese and head coach Glen Drexler of the Yellowjacket cross country team.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by the dynamic duo of Mya Holmquist and Niya Wilson of the Yellowjacket women's soccer team.
On the season premiere of Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Nick Bursik, the director of athletics at UW-Superior.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and The Big Sound Matt Johnson sit down with Dan Laughlin for a career retrospective with the recently retired Yellowjacket women's hockey coach. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by CeeJay Schaffner, head tennis coach, to talk about the upcoming UMAC Championships after both the Yellowjacket men and women clinched the UMAC North Division.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down with Randy Barker from the Pruitt Center for Mindfulness and Well-Being at UW-Superior to talk about mental health and some of the stresses and challenges currently faced by college student-athletes. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson host the Communications 330 class, taught by Tom Hansen for an interactive episode. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson chat baseball with head coach TJ Oakes and junior Payton Steiner of the Yellowjacket baseball team. #WeAreSuperior
This week Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down and have a chat about the state of the UMAC with conference commissioner Corey Borchardt. #WeAreSuperior
It's softball week on Eye of the Swarm, as we head to the diamond with head coach Melissa Fracker and junior Ellie Machal of the Yellowjacket softball program. #WeAreSuperior
On this week's Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by CeeJay Schaffner and Brooke Wilfong of the Yellowjacket tennis team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by head coach Glen Drexler and senior Ethan Westimayer of the Yellowjacket track and field team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by sophomore defenseman Liam Whitehouse and head coach Rich McKenna of the Yellowjacket men's hockey team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Craig Morrissey of the iFan Sports Network. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined on the show by head coach Emily Carpenter and senior Erika Mattson from the Yellowjacket women's basketball team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk a little Yellowjacket women's hockey, as they are joined by head coach Dan Laughlin and senior defender Jada LeBlanc. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down and talk with head coach Greg Polkowski and senior J'Vaun Walker of the red-hot Yellowjacket men's basketball team. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson chat with Joe Mooney, head coach of the UMAC champion Yellowjacket men's soccer team as his crew heads to the national tournament for the sixth time. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by head coach Glen Drexler and Halle Barker of the Yellowjacket cross country teams to talk about the season to date and the upcoming conference championships.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by Paul Eberhardt, head coach of the Yellowjacket golf teams to talk about the 2023 fall season and his team's fifth conference title.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Jenna Anderson, captain of the Yellowjacket volleyball team and also president of the UW-Superior Student Athlete Advisory Committee.
On the season five premier of Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by UW-Superior Director of Athletics Nick Bursik to get an update on all the happenings in the athletics department at UW-Superior. #WeAreSuperior
This week on Eye of the Swarm we try something new - TWO COACHES! Our first-ever crossover event includes Allison DeGroot from women's soccer and Melissa Fracker from softball. Oh, and Tom Hansen's COMM 110 class stopped by, too.
It's probably snowing outside, but we're still talking baseball! This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Isaac Fugere and head coach TJ Oakes from the Yellowjacket baseball team.
It's time to talk softball! This week on the show, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are joined by pitcher Tayler Kraemer and head coach Melissa Fracker from the Yellowjacket softball team to talk about the start to their season.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and the Big Sound Matt Johnson are talking with the hottest team on campus, the Yellowjacket men's tennis team, with head coach CeeJay Schaffner and Jacob Zacharias.
On this week's episode, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Yellowjacket men's and women's track and field head coach Glen Drexler as well as sophomore Garrett Lynch to talk about the indoor season and the upcoming championships.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Commissioner Corey Borchardt to get his update of the league as winter sports near the post-season tournament.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down and talk hockey with Yellowjacket women's hockey head coach Dan Laughlin, and team captain C.C. Hayes.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson step outside the world of Yellowjacket sports and spend some time chatting with Olympic gold medalist John Shuster.
This week on Eye of the Swarm Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk a little hockey with head coach Rich McKenna and sophomore forward Reed Stark of the Yellowjacket men's hockey team. The 'Jackets are currently 7-3-0 and lead the WIAC.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined in studio by Holden Law of UW-Superior marketing and communications to talk about his start in the field and how he and his team continue to make groundbreaking contest for Yellowjacket Athletics.
This episode of Eye of the Swarm is a little different, with hosts Jon Garver and Matt Johnson having Tom Hansen and his Communications 203 class in the studio, including a Q & A segment at the end for the students.
On this week's Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined by Yellowjacket men's basketball coach Greg Polkowski and junior Josef Fahrenholtz to talk about the coming season and the recent exhibition contest against Minnesota Duluth.
This week Jon Garver and Matt Johnson are joined on the show by Emily Carpenter, the interim head coach of the Yellowjacket women's basketball team, to talk about the whirlwind that was her hiring and the early stages of the 22-23 season.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson open with a brief discussion on mental health, then talk soccer with Brandon Conklin and head coach Joe Mooney of the Yellowjacket men's team, including their dramatic, come-from-behind win over Twin Ports rival St. Scholastica.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down and talk with sophomore Michael Butterfield and head coach Glen Drexler of the Yellowjacket men's cross country team, as they prepare for their final tuneup race leading into the 2022 UMAC Championships.
This week on Eye of the Swarm, Jon Garver and Matt Johnson sit down and talk soccer with head coach Allison DeGroot, and sophomore goalkeeper Jenna Lang of the Yellowjacket women's hockey team, which currently sits in first place in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference.
This week on Eye of the Swarm it's all about golf as Jon Garver and Matt Johnson talk about the 2022 season with McKenzie Tuura and Taylor Burger. The Yellowjacket golf teams will be competing in the 2022 UMAC Championships October 6-8.