Category: Sports
Northern Illinois will close out a record-setting season with an appearance on the “blue turf” of Boise’s Bronco Stadium in the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, Northern Illinois, bowl and Mid-American Conference officials announced Sunday. The Huskies (10-3, 8-0) will face Fresno State (8-4, 5-3) of the Western Athletic Conference in the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl...
Northern Illinois women’s soccer seniors Mo Smunt and Annie Wyer added one more accolade to their already outstanding careers as Huskies when they were selected to the 2010 Academic All Mid-American Conference Team for their performance on the field and in the classroom, the league announced Wednesday. A 2010 All-MAC First Team Selection, Smunt is...
NIU’s wrestling team welcomes Michigan State to the Convocation Center Friday, Dec. 3, for its annual Showcase Meet. The first match begins at 7 p.m. “We’ve got some big match-ups where ranked guys will be wrestling each other. This is the one meet a year that we bring in an opponent, usually a Big Ten team, and...
Northern Illinois senior running back Chad Spann (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central HS) has been named the winner of the Mid-American Conference Vern Smith Leadership Award, which is presented annually to the MAC’s top football player, the league office announced Wednesday. Mid-American Conference head coaches voted on the award and on the league’s all-conference team, which features...
Continuing the historic trend of the Northern Illinois volleyball team’s 2010 season, setter Kristin Hoffman became the first Huskie volleyball player to be named an ESPN Academic All-American®, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Tuesday. “As I’ve said many times before, Kristin is the definition of a student-athlete,” said NIU head coach...
The Northern Illinois University football team made it a perfect 10 as defensive end Jake Coffman (German Valley, Ill./Forreston) earned Mid-American Conference West Division Defensive Player of the Week Monday after turning in his best performance of the season in NIU’s 71-3 win over Eastern Michigan. Coffman’s selection marks the 10th-straight week a Huskie has...
Brian Hall’s 10 points would lead the Huskies in scoring on Monday night. In search for its third win in a row, the Northern Illinois men’s basketball team could not end Boise State’s undefeated start to the 2010-11 season as the Huskies lost 80-51 at the Convocation Center Monday night. The win moved the Broncos...
Senior guard Marke Freeman totaled 24 points to lead the Northern Illinois women’s basketball team to a 68-64 victory over Chicago State in the Huskies’ home opener at the NIU Convocation Center, Saturday afternoon. The Huskies improved to 4-2 the season with their win over the Cougars, as first year NIU head coach Kathi Bennett...
Another week, another player of the week. NIU linebacker Jordan Delegal (Miami, Fla./Joliet JC) earned Mid-American Conference West Division Special Teams Player of the Week Monday after blocking two punts in the Huskies’ 59-21 win over Ball State. Delegal blocked two of the Huskies’ school-record three blocked punts in the game. His first block came in...
Northern Illinois men’s soccer player Kyle Knotek, a senior who holds a perfect 4.0 grade point average in NIU’s esteemed College of Business, was voted to the College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN Academic All-America First Team. “It feels great to have gotten (the award) in my last season,” Knotek said. “As I am leaving...
Northern Illinois senior guard Xavier Silas has been named the Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week for men’s basketball after scoring 56 points in the Huskies’ two games last week, the MAC Office announced Monday. Silas scored a career-high 34 points in just 24 minutes of action versus Cardinal Stritch on Sunday as...
For a moment, it looked like Courtney Shelton’s perfect night of 6-for-6 shooting and a career-high 18 points would not be enough to give the Northern Illinois women’s basketball team a win at Southern Illinois. Then, with the Huskies trailing 45-43 and 1.8 seconds on the clock, Shelton hit a half-court buzzer beater to push...
