Category: Sports
Sophomore Maksym Bartiuk of the Northern Illinois men’s tennis team was named Mid-American Conference Player of the Week by the league office on Wednesday afternoon. Bartiuk earned a pair of singles victories playing at first singles for the Huskies against Eastern Illinois and Northwestern. He also claimed a doubles victory along with freshman Maksym Lagutin...
Former junior college All-American placekicker Josh Gallington has signed a national letter of intent to play football for the Northern Illinois Huskies, NIU head coach Dave Doeren announced Tuesday. Gallington, who has spent the last two seasons at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, Calif., becomes the 23rd member of Doeren’s first signing class at Northern Illinois. ...
The Northern Illinois women’s gymnastics team earned its highest team score of the season by getting season-best performances Sunday, Feb. 20, on 19 of its 24 routines on Senior Day at the Convocation Center. The Huskies fell to the 16th-ranked Kent State Golden Flashes, 194.800-192.875, but saw their overall score rise for the fourth straight outing...
In a final tune-up before the 2011 Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships, the Northern Illinois track and field team will travel Friday, Feb. 18, to Muncie, Ind. to compete in the Ball State Quadrangular. With just a week left before MAC Championships, the Huskies will face MAC foes Ball State, Western Michigan and Miami (Ohio) at...
Kathi Bennett's teams are known for defense. On Wednesday night at the Convocation Center, the nation's third-best scoring team found out why.
The Northern Illinois men’s basketball team will host its annual Alumni Day festivities Saturday, Feb. 19, prior to NIU’s home game against Seattle University. The alumni game will be played at 12:30 p.m. NIU will honor Huskie great Billy Harris while also hosting American Red Cross Day/Blood Drive and “Take a Kid to the Game Day.”...
Northern Illinois University center fielder Dani Parrish was named Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week for her performance at the Texas Classic this past weekend. Parrish, a native of Plainfield, Ind., was the offensive catalyst for the Huskies (0-5) in the Texas Classic in Austin, Texas over the weekend, going 6-for-18 with three...
The Northern Illinois University wrestling team travels Saturday afternoon to Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville to face Knox College and the Cougars at the SIUE Fitness Center. NIU will face Knox College at 1:30 p.m. and SIUE at 3 p.m. This weekend’s match begins a two-match road trip before the MAC Championships in March. “You approach every match...
Northern Illinois will play six home games at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb in 2011, and welcomes the Big Ten's Badgers to Chicago's lakefront for Soldier Field Showdown II on Saturday, Sept. 17.
The Northern Illinois track and field team will continue indoor action this weekend when the Huskies travel to Ames, Iowa, to compete in the 2011 Iowa State Classic Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, at Lied Recreation Center. Facing some of their fiercest competition this season, NIU head track and field coach Connie Teaberry...
The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team (0-3) will play three dual meets against in-state competition this weekend. The Huskies will head east to face Illinois-Chicago at noon Friday, Feb. 11, at Match Point Tennis Club in Griffith, Ind., before hosting Bradley at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, and Southern Illinois at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13....
The Northern Illinois men’s tennis team (1-3) is set to host three Midwest opponents this weekend at the Boylan Tennis Center in Rockford, Ill. NIU will welcome Western Illinois and Green Bay for a doubleheader Friday, Feb. 11, with start times set for 1 and 6 p.m.. Illinois State will come to Rockford for a dual...
