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Northern Illinois freshman gymnast Jaelyn Olsen (Bethany, Okla./Putnam City West HS) has been named the Mid-American Conference Specialist of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday. Olsen collected the honor with a full-twisting yurchenko vault that earned a score of 9.875 from the judges Saturday at Iowa State. Olsen easily won the vault event, as...

Northern Illinois continued its upward trend to the 2013 season by earning its season-best team score for the second consecutive meet with a 194.375 Friday night versus Iowa State at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. After topping the 194-point total for the first time last Friday at Central Michigan, the Huskies went .350 higher Friday...

Senior Tanya Rachan (Lowell, Ind./Hanover Central HS) and sophomore Kim Gotlund (Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township HS) are set to represent Northern Illinois at the 2012 NCAA Gymnastics Champaign Regional Saturday, April 7, beginning at 4 p.m. (CT) at Assembly Hall on the University of Illinois campus. Rachan is the lone event specialist on floor exercise, while...

Northern Illinois gymnasts Tanya Rachan and Kim Gotlund have qualified for the NCAA Regional Gymnastics Championships and will represent the Huskies at the Champaign Regional on Saturday, April 7, as the NCAA announced the 2012 2012 NCAA Gymnastics Championship field Monday. The Regional will be held at 4 p.m. (CT) at Assembly Hall on the...

Women’s gymnastics teams from seven Mid-American Conference schools will come together Saturday, March 24, at the NIU Convocation Center to vie for the coveted MAC Gymnastics Championship trophy. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. for the meet, which begins at 2 p.m. in the main bowl of the Convocation Center. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5...

Sam Morreale, a former Huskie gymnast who has served as the program’s assistant coach for the past nine years, was named head coach of the Northern Illinois women’s gymnastics program Wednesday by NIU Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Jeff Compher. Morreale takes over from 12-year Northern Illinois head coach Mark Sontag, who left...

Football senior Chad Spann and volleyball freshman Lauren Wicinski were named Northern Illlinois University’s 2010 Male and Female Athletes of the Year, headlining a list of 24 award winners honored Monday night during NIU’s second annual Victors Awards.  The Victors saw NIU student-athletes, coaches, athletic department and university staff come together to honor the Huskies’...

Northern Illinois senior Holly Reichard wrapped up her stellar collegiate gymnastics career Saturday, April 2, with her third NCAA Regional appearance as an all-around competitor.  Up until a misstep on balance beam during her final routine, Reichard was having the type of day that has typified her career. The Palatine native, who rotated with the Washington...

After 158 routines in competition, countless hours in the Huskie Stadium gym and 40 road trips with her Northern Illinois teammates over the last four years, NIU women’s gymnastics senior Holly Reichard has spent the last two weeks training for the final meet of her lifelong gymnastics career. Reichard left DeKalb Thursday for Norman, Okla.,...

NIU senior gymnast Holly Reichard (Palatine, Ill./Palatine Fremd HS) has been selected to compete in the 2011 National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships  as an individual for the third time in her four-year career with the Huskies. Reichard will compete at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at the NCAA South Central Regional at the University of...

The 2011 Northern Illinois gymnastics season has been a journey filled with uncertainty, adversity, hard work and determination. The Huskies have overcome injury, illness and a changing line-up that, at times, featured only five gymnasts on several events.  As the 2011 Huskies embark on their last road trip as a team – to the 2011 Mid-American...

Although none of the gymnasts on this year’s Northern Illinois gymnastics team had ever competed in NIU’s Chick Evans Fieldhouse before, the Huskies looked right at home in the team’s former home while competing in the State of Illinois Classic Saturday. Northern Illinois used its season-best performances on uneven parallel bars and balance beam to...