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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...
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...
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Northern Illinois University and Rich Harvest Farms, the home of the NIU men’s and women’s golf programs in Sugar Grove, Ill., have been selected to host the 2017 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Golf Championships, the NCAA Golf Committees announced Thursday. NIU will host its first NCAA Championship final in any sport for the first time...
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Only two weeks after becoming the first All-Mid-American Conference finishers in the history of NIU cross country, freshman Kelsey Hildreth and senior Meghan Heuer became the school’s first All-Region selections. The Huskie duo finished in the Top 20 of the NCAA Cross Country Midwest Regional 6K race Friday afternoon at Newman Golf Course in Peoria....
For the third consecutive year, Northern Illinois University has registered a new high in graduation rates of its student-athletes, as the National Collegiate Athletic Association released its annual Graduation Success Rate report Tuesday. NIU posted an 89 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) in the latest report, which ranks as the best in the Mid-American Conference...
The Northern Illinois University track and field team capped its season Saturday at the NCAA National Championships, as freshman Claudette Day (Belleville, Ill./Belleville West) tied for 21st in the high jump. After having a superb showing two weeks prior at the NCAA West Preliminary Round to get to Oregon, Day was unable to get that...
Claudette Day
Freshman Claudette Day (Belleville, Ill./Belleville West) made history for the NIU track and field team Saturday at the NCAA West Preliminary Round by qualifying for the national championship meet in the high jump. Day tied for 11th in the event at 5-07.75 (1.72m), but earned one of the final two qualifying spots via a jump-off....
Meghan Heuer
The Northern Illinois University track and field team kicked off the NCAA West Preliminary Round in a big way Thursday, as Meghan Heuer (St. Charles, Ill./North) broke the school record in the 800 meters and advanced to today’s quarterfinals round. Heuer placed 17th overall with a time of 2:07.79 to move on to the next...
Sam Morreale and the NIU Huskie gymnastics team
With a perfect multiyear Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 1,000, the Northern Illinois University women’s gymnastics team was honored Wednesday with a Public Recognition Award from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The award goes to teams whose multiyear APR ranks in the Top 10 percent of all NCAA programs in their respective sports. Each...
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Northern Illinois University gymnasts Kim Gotlund (Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township HS) and Amanda Stepp (Lapeer, Mich./Lapeer East HS) closed out the 2014 Huskie gymnastics season with solid performances Saturday at the NCAA Fayetteville Regional in Fayetteville, Ark. Gotlund, a three-time All Mid-American Conference gymnast who competed in all four disciplines in every meet for the Huskies...
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Northern Illinois University senior Kim Gotlund (Wadsworth, Ill./Warren Township HS) and junior Amanda Stepp (Lapeer, Mich./Lapeer East HS) will represent the Huskies Saturday, April 5, at the 2014 NCAA Gymnastics Regional in Fayetteville, Ark., as the NCAA released the field for the 2014 Women’s Gymnastics Championships. Gotlund will make her second career appearance as an...
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The Northern Illinois University wrestling team saw its season come to an end Friday in Oklahoma City, Okla., as seniors Nick Smith (Ida, Mich./Ida) and Rob Jillard (Franklinville, N.J./Delsea Regional) dropped consolation matches to seeded opponents at the NCAA championships. Smith suffered a close 10-7 defeat against No. 10 Nick Soto of Chattanooga, while Jillard...
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