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Northern Illinois University senior Allie Parthie (Marinette, Wis./Marinette) was named the Mid-American Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week, the league announced Wednesday. Parthie posted her second consecutive top-five finish of the season when she finished fourth at the Cougar Classic, hosted by Chicago State at Harborside International Golf Center. She finished the tournament with a...
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...
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...
Saturday’s Soldier Field Showdown III game between Northern Illinois and Iowa at the historic Chicago stadium will be captured by live painter John Bukaty. The original artwork, which Bukaty will paint from a corner of the field, will be auctioned off on Northern Illinois’ official athletics website, www.NIUHuskies.com, beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1....
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...
Fresh off a stellar junior season, Northern Illinois senior middle blocker Mary Kurisch was named to the 2012 Preseason All-Mid-American Conference Team, the league announced Wednesday. Voted on by the league’s coaches, the team includes six selections from each division. Starting all 35 matches last season, the 6’2” La Crosse, Wis. (West Salem H.S.) native...
The last two seasons have seemingly brought NIU volleyball back to the “glory days” of the 1990s dominant decade (24.5 wins per year, seven first-place conference finishes, three NCAA tournaments) as the Huskies’ 55 wins over the last two seasons were last matched in 1992-93 (62 wins). With its first Mid-American Conference regular season championship...
The Northern Illinois football team flashed plenty of big play ability Wednesday at Huskie Stadium, as the offense and defense both had their fair share of highlights. By the end of practice, head coach Dave Doeren had plenty of praise for both sides of the ball. “The team had good spirit, it was physical and...
Northern Illinois Athletics invites all area golfers, alumni and Huskie fans to hit the links and support their favorite NIU teams in the process at the second annual NIU Coaches’ Classic golf tournament, planned Friday, Sept. 7, at the Kishwaukee Country Club in DeKalb. The event will take place in conjunction with the NIU Varsity...
The Northern Illinois University football team opened its 2012 fall camp Monday afternoon with a two-hour workout under ideal conditions at Huskie Stadium. Second-year head coach Dave Doeren put the defending Mid-American Conference champions through its paces in the first of 24 practices scheduled over the next three weeks. He was pleased with the way...
Members of the Northern Illinois track and field team added another honor to their impressive 2011-12 season Thursday, as they were named an All-Academic team by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. NIU was among 171 teams nationwide and one of six Illinois schools to receive the honor. The Huskies...
NIU’s Jason Schepler is one of 117 nominees for the 2012 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team®, Allstate Insurance Co. and the American Football Coaches Association announced today. Schepler, a tight end from Sycamore, Ill., returns to the field after missing the 2011 campaign due to injury. A leader on and off the field, he didn’t...
