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On Oct. 15 and 16, the NIU Figure Skating Team placed sixth of 13 teams at the Maize and Blue Intercollegiate Figure Skating Competition sanctioned by the U.S. Figure Skating Association and hosted by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This competition served as the first of the season, as the team hopes to...
NCAA logo with graduation cap and diploma
Northern Illinois University student-athletes Emily Naegele (softball) and Nelle Youel (women’s tennis) are among the 29 women selected nationally to receive an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for Spring 2016, as the NCAA informed all winners of their selection over the past week. Naegele, who earned All-American honors in softball for 2016, and Youel, who completed her...
Anna Brereton and Meg Wolowicz
Huskies Anna Brereton (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) and Meg Wolowicz (Manitowoc, Wis./Manitowoc Lincoln) are spending 10 days in Central Europe this summer, visiting four different countries and playing in the 2016 European Global Challenge in Pula, Croatia, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Brereton and Wolowicz will play for BIP Midwest in the tournament’s...
Alex Elias, Emily Naegele and Andrew Frankenreider
Three Northern Illinois University student-athletes were among a select group of 200 NCAA student-athletes chosen to attend the 2016 NCAA Career in Sports Forum held the first weekend of June in Indianapolis. Participants at the annual educational forum learn about and explore potential careers in sports. Among nearly 1,000 applicants from every level of collegiate...
According to the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace, sport can be used as powerful tool in the advancement of developmental and peace objectives around the world. Since 2003, the U.N. General Assembly has adopted annual resolutions on sport for the purpose of promoting education, health, development and peace. Because of this...
Sharon Moskowitz, an NIU graduate student, and Matt Wilson, assistant professor in the NIU School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders.
According to a 2013 report released by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, the reported number of individuals aged 19 and younger treated in U.S. emergency departments for concussions and other non-fatal, sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries increased from 150,000 in 2001 to 250,000 in 2009. The report also revealed sports associated...
With the first day of spring still a few days away, Northern Illinois University Athletics has announced the dates and locations for the 2016 Huskie Summer Circuit, the annual “tour” that brings NIU Athletics head coaches and staff in contact with fans and alumni throughout the region. The Huskie Summer Circuit, which made its debut...
Concussion
Sharon Moskowitz, a NIU graduate student and life-long athlete, suffered her first concussion at 15, the result of a particularly aggressive foul during a high school basketball game. Moskowitz’s opponent hit her so hard that it broke her nose and knocked her out for a few moments. Her coach benched Moskowitz for a month –...
Huskie Chi-Town Showdown
NIU Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier has a busy “in-box” and lately a lot of the questions have been about the recently announced Huskie Chi-Town Showdown game Nov. 9 between NIU and Toledo at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. Why is NIU moving its home game versus Toledo to U.S. Cellular...
Chuks Iroegbu
NIU men’s basketball senior Chuck Iroegbu has been selected as one of college basketball’s Top 16 “dark horse dunkers,” a head-to-head, bracket-style competition to determine the final participant in the Slam Dunk Championship presented by State Farm. Winners of each round are selected online through fan votes. Quarterfinal round voting ends at noon Wednesday, Feb....
Jim Bradley
NIU Athletics has unveiled a multi-layered display at the Convocation Center to permanently commemorate an iconic moment in its history – the October 1971 Sports Illustrated photo shoot of the Huskies’ basketball “Player of the Century” Jim Bradley, by world-renowned sports photographer Heinz Kluetmeier. Bradley, NIU’s sophomore phenom, was photographed by Kluetmeier for Sports Illustrated’s...
Connie Teaberry
Northern Illinois University director of track & field and cross country Connie Teaberry will be inducted into the Kansas State Athletics Hall of Fame this weekend as one of 10 members of the Wildcats’ 2016 induction class. Official induction ceremonies will take place on Friday, Jan. 29, before the distinguished individuals are recognized at halftime...
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