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Are you ready for some Northern Illinois cheerleading? Tryouts for the 2012-13 cheerleading squad and for the Victor E. Huskie mascot are Saturday, May 5, in the Victor E. Court of the NIU Convocation Center. Cheerleading tryouts continue Sunday, May 6. Hopefuls should park in Lot C3 and use Entrance 5. Cheerleading Time: Check in...
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team will host the Mid-American Conference Championships this weekend at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill. The 72-hole event begins Friday, May 4, with an opening 36 holes; 18 holes are scheduled for both Saturday, May 5, and Sunday, May 6. The championships conclude a successful season for the...
Sophomore Jeff Zimmerman (Tinley Park, Ill./Victor J. Andrew) hammered two homeruns and drove in six RBI as Northern Illinois clobbered Illinois-Chicago, 11-9. The Huskie pitching staff combined for 13 strikeouts in the game and Kyle Glancy (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park-River Forest) notched his 11th save of the season. “The guys battled hard out there and...
Northern Illinois gymnasts Kim Gotlund (Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township HS), Megan Melendez (Stafford, Va./North Stafford HS) and Tanya Rachan (Lowell, Ind./Hanover Central HS) have been named to the 2012 Gymnastics Academic All Mid-American Conference Team, the league office announced Wednesday. NIU’s three selections tie for the most in school history for gymnastics. “I can’t say how...
What was that tantalizing barbeque fragrance around MLK Commons Wednesday afternoon? Approximately 200 students participated in an end-of-year parking lot party at the NIU Visitors lot during the midday hours on May 2. NIU Military Student Services partnered with Off-Campus & Non-Traditional Student Services to put on the event. The celebration was held to congratulate...
A school-record three Northern Illinois University football seniors gained membership in the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame‘s Hampshire Honor Society for 2012, the organization announced Wednesday. Quarterback Chandler Harnish (Bluffton, Ind./Norwell), a 2011 NFF Scholar-Athlete, tight end Adam Kiel (Wentzville, Mo./St. Dominic) and guard Joe Pawlak (Grayslake, Ill./Grayslake) were honored by the...
Five third-year students from the NIU College of Law have been selected as the first-ever recipients of the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Bridge to the Bar Scholarship. The students are Nareman Abdallah of Rochelle, Jeffrey Brown of Morris, Alia Choudhury of Carol Stream, Sania Merchant of DeKalb and Corey Sealy of Oak Park. Each will...
Three Huskies were selected to this year’s All-Mid-American Conference list, highlighted by Dor Amir’s selection to the first team announced Tuesday by the conference office. Axel Lagerlof and Roman Turtygin were named to this year’s second team. It is the first time since 2009 the Huskies have had at least three selections to the All-MAC...
Starting 90 minutes late with a rain delay and trailing in the bottom of the ninth to instate Big Ten foe Northwestern, Northern Illinois battled back to break a shutout and attempt its first walkoff win of the season. The Huskies could not overcome the deficit and fell to the Wildcats, 2-1. “We saw a...
Northern Illinois offensive tackle Trevor Olson and fullback Cameron Bell have signed free agent contracts with Tampa Bay and San Francisco, respectively, to bring the number of Huskie football players to sign NFL free agent contracts this year to five. Olson (Richfield, Minn./Richfield) and Bell (Round Rock, Texas/Stony Point) join wide receiver Nathan Palmer (Elkhart,...
The Northern Illinois baseball team will prepare for a pair of midweek tilts as it hosts Northwestern at Elfstrom Stadium Tuesday night and another on Wednesday evening when it plays at Illinois-Chicago. It will be the Huskies’ sixth contest at Elfstrom, home of the Kansas City Royals Low-A affiliate Kane County Cougars. “Kane County has...