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Coach Rod Carey
After posting its second straight 12-win season, playing in its sixth straight bowl game and in the Mid-American Conference Championship game for the fourth consecutive year in 2013, the Northern Illinois University football team returned to the practice field this morning as the Huskies open spring practice. The Huskies will hold 15 practices over the...
Joe Novak
Former Northern Illinois football coach Joe Novak will be inducted into the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame in May, the league office announced Friday, becoming the first NIU-nominated representative in the MAC Hall of Fame. Novak is part of a seven-member class that includes the late Charlie Coles (Miami/Central Michigan, men’s basketball), Judy Devine (Kent...
Jimmie Ward and Jordan Lynch
Northern Illinois University All-Americans Jordan Lynch and Jimmie Ward, along with five of their 2013 senior teammates, took center stage Friday at the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center at NIU’s Annual Pro Day. National Football League personnel from 30 different teams, the Huskie coaching staff, friends, family, teammates, members of the media and special...
Tommylee Lewis
The Northern Illinois University Huskies will face a challenging schedule from start to finish in 2014 as the Mid-American Conference released the 2014 schedules of its 13 league teams Friday. NIU, which posted its second straight 12-win season in 2013 and played in the Mid-American Conference Championship game for the fourth consecutive year, will play...
Rod Carey
Northern Illinois University has extended the contract of Head Football Coach Rod Carey by one year and will raise Carey’s salary for 2014, NIU Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier announced Friday. In his first full season as head coach, Carey led the Huskies to the first 12-0 regular season in school...
Thomas Hammock
The Baltimore Ravens have hired NIU alumnus Thomas Hammock as its running backs coach. An 11-year collegiate coaching veteran, he joins the NFL ranks after serving the last three seasons as the assistant head coach, running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at the University of Wisconsin. “The opportunity to coach at the highest level –...
Following Northern Illinois University’s second consecutive 12-win season and fourth-straight Mid-American Conference West Division title, NIU head coach Rod Carey and his staff announced the names of 31 future Huskies that make up the 2014 recruiting class. The Huskies’ class includes 15 defensive players, 14 offensive players and two specialists from 11 different states. NIU...
Top: Dominique Ware and Rob Sterling. Bottom: Jacob Brinlee and Ricky Connors
Four players from Northern Illinois University’s 12-win, MAC West champion football team were named to the 2013 Academic All Mid-American Conference squad Friday with another four Huskies garnering honorable mention recognition. The team is selected annually by the league’s faculty athletics representatives. NIU senior safety Dominique Ware (Bolingbrook, Ill./Plainfield North HS), junior fullbacks Rob Sterling...
Photo of an NIU Huskie football helmet at Soldier Field
Northern Illinois University is inviting all football season ticket holders and Huskie Athletics Support Fund (HASF) donors to get an insider’s look at the 2014 NIU football signing class at a special National Signing Day Party beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5. Join NIU head coach Rod Carey and his staff for a social...
Craig Harmon
Craig Harmon, a former player and graduate assistant coach at Northern Illinois University, has returned to the Huskies as an assistant coach, NIU head coach Rod Carey announced Tuesday. Harmon, a native of Godfrey, Ill., will coach the NIU tight ends and fullbacks in 2014. “It’s great to have Craig and his family – his wife...
Juwan Brescacin
The Northern Illinois University Huskies offense could not get untracked against Utah State in the 2013 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl game and, despite a valiant effort by the NIU defense, the Huskies fell to the Aggies 21-14 Thursday night at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. With its second straight loss, NIU ended...
Welcome Huskies!
Early wake-up calls and frigid temperatures for bowl trips are nothing new for the NIU football team. They’ve done it for the last six years. However, a blizzard struck the northern Illinois area Sunday morning just as the Huskies started arriving at the Convocation Center’s parking lot – adding a degree of difficulty to the start...
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