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Rashaan Melvin
Northern Illinois and the University of Wyoming will meet on the football field in 2015 and 2016 in a home-and-home football series. Jeff Compher, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics, and Wyoming Director of Athletics Tom Burman made the announcement Wednesday. The Cowboys will visit DeKalb on Sept. 26, 2015 for a game...
Artist’s rendering of Chessick Practice Center
Work on Northern Illinois’ newest athletic facility, the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center, is set to begin this fall. NIU fans now can make their marks on Huskie history – literally – by purchasing lifetime legacy bricks in the Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Huskie Pride Plaza. With each brick purchase, proceeds from the NIU Legacy Brick...
670-The Score logo
Northern Illinois Athletics and its multimedia rights holder, IMG College, have renewed the university’s agreement with Chicago sports radio powerhouse WSCR 670-The Score to broadcast Huskie football. Jeff Compher, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics, and Mitch Rosen, program director of The Score, made the announcement Monday. The multi-year agreement extends a relationship...
The Score Four Pack
Thanks to a promotional opportunity with NIU radio partner 670 The Score in Chicago, Northern Illinois and the University of Iowa will offer fans a chance to attend Soldier Field Showdown III for just $30 per ticket through the new Score Four ticket pack. The Huskies and Hawkeyes kick off the 2012 college football season...
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For the seventh consecutive year, all 17 of Northern Illinois University’s sports programs have exceeded the academic standards measured by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) according to the 2012 APR report released today by the organization. The APR has become the primary tool used by the NCAA to judge a team’s...
Christina Sutcliffe
Christina Sutcliffe has been named head coach of NIU’s softball program, Jeff Compher announced Monday. “I’m very excited to welcome Christina Sutcliffe to the Huskie family,” said Compher, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics. “Christina has strong Midwest ties, head coaching experience and a thorough knowledge of the Mid-American Conference. I feel she...
MAC Champs
The success Northern Illinois University Athletics achieved in competition in 2011-12 continued in the classroom as the NCAA honored two Huskie teams with a Public Recognition Award as their Academic Progress Rate (APR) numbers qualified them in the Top 10 percent of all programs in their respective sports. The Northern Illinois football and women’s outdoor...
Huskie Stadium
Northern Illinois University will host the Illinois High School Association state football finals in odd-numbered years beginning in 2013 and running through 2021 the IHSA announced today. “This is a great day for our university, the DeKalb-Sycamore community and our entire northern Illinois region,” said Jeff Compher, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics....
NIU Huskie football
Five additional Northern Illinois football games have been scheduled for broadcast, and the Huskies released four game times Thursday as the Mid-American Conference released its complete 2012 television schedule. Northern Illinois’ season opener Sept. 1 with Iowa at Chicago’s historic Soldier Field will kickoff at 2:30 p.m. Central Time and will be televised by ESPNU....
#NIUSocialSummer
What better to do during the summer months while waiting for your favorite Northern Illinois team to return to action than talk Huskie sports online with other NIU fans, and Northern Illinois coaches, win prizes and have fun while keeping up with your social media platforms? That’s exactly what the Northern Illinois Huskies are doing...
Eric Luzzi
Northern Illinois has extended the contract of men’s soccer head coach Eric Luzzi through the 2015 season, NIU Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Jeff Compher announced Thursday. “Eric Luzzi has proved himself to be a championship coach and this contract is a reflection of his success so far and the confidence we have...
Kristin Hoffman
Northern Illinois will see 66 current and former student-athletes leave school with their NIU degrees in 2011-12 as 40 current and former Huskie student-athletes from 11 different sports programs earned their degrees Saturday. They join the 19 December graduates and seven others scheduled to complete their studies this summer. In all, student-athletes from 16 different...
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