What is the story about?
Spring football practice started yesterday. UW Baseball got a big upset win. Those and more for your Wednesday Dots.
Football Dots
- UW had its first practice of the spring, so there are lots of stories.
- If you didn’t catch it, here is the press conference from Monday where the coaches talked ahead of the first practice (yesterday). You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1L_euGQcqY Lars Hanson has notes from Coach Fisch’s portion here: https://uwhuskieswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/huskies/football/2026/03/31/jedd-fisch-uw-football-spring-practice-washington-huskies-ryan-walters-landen-hatchett/89396072007/
- Christian Caple has his ($) recap of the first practice and focuses on the true freshmen including Derek Coleman-Brusa and Kodi Greene.
- Here’s Roman Tomashoff’s impressions and observations from the first practice. In particular, he also highlights that freshmen Kodi Greene and Derek Coleman-Brusa took a lot of first-team snaps and looked the part. Freshman WR Jordan Clay also got some first-team reps. Several other freshmen took reps with the second team including LB Ramzak Fruean, CB’s Jeron Jones and Elijah Durr, and DT TI Umu-Cais,
- SI’s Dan Raley had his impressions of the first practice. Raley noted a few people watching practice including Joe Ryan (the grandfather of John Mills), Damon Huard, and Warren Moon (the father of RB Ryken Moon). He also noted that punter Luke Dunne looks like he may not be playing while punter Hunter Green was the first one out to practice.
- Here is the Seattle Times article ($) on the first practice: https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/washington-huskies-football/huskies-qb-demond-williams-jr-has-new-number-fresh-look-on-offense/#Echobox=1775016489
- Jedd Fisch talks to the media after the first practice. Dawgman has a transcript.
- Dawgman has interviews with Jacob Manu and Demond Williams after practice. Jacob talked some about this being his last spring practices. Demond was asked, among other things, why he switched his number to ‘1” and on how he is up to 200 lbs.
- Here is a list of when each of the practices is; note that all are open to the public.
- ESPN lists a top newcomer for each Big Ten team (plus Notre Dame). They have DeSean Watts as the top newcomer for UW.
- CBS Sports has their first round NFL draft projections, and projects Denzel Bost to be drafted by the 49’ers.
UW Athletics Dots
- UW Baseball upset #9 Oregon State 18-2.
- UW Beach Volleyball is ranked #19.
- Andrew Berg has his weekly update on UW Softball which now has 20 straight wins and is ranked #14. There will be a couple more opportunities to watch them at home this season.
- Dubs showing off the beauty of the campus this time of year.
