After splitting a pair of matches against MAC opponents over the weekend, NIU’s Chrissy Svetlic was named MAC Player of the Week on Tuesday.

Over the past week, Svetlic won all four of her singles and doubles matches.

“She’s playing rather high in the lineup,” NIU coach Pontus Hiort said, “and she’s really bounced back from a rough start to the year and given us some big wins when we’ve needed them here late in the season.”

The freshman is on a three-match singles winning streak.

Women’s track

NIU’s Alicja Czajka did what she does best – break records – at the three-day Lee Calhoun Invitational over the weekend.

The Huskies senior broke the meet record in the 5,000-meter run when she ran a 17:18.08 – more than 14 seconds a head of the second-place finisher.

As a team, the Huskies finished second at the 10-team event.

NIU junior Angela Thomas won the triple jump with a distance of 37-1 3/4 and finished second in the long jump at 17-1 1/4.

Giving back

NIU basketball all-century team member Rodney Davis came back to DeKalb on Friday.

The former Continental Basketball Association draft selection and NBA free agent who heads L.I.F.E. Support Inc. brought a group of middle school students from Aurora, his hometown, to NIU on a field trip to “see the lives of student athletes at a higher level.”

A two-time team MVP at NIU, Davis, who played from 1984-88, had the students meet with various NIU coaches and student athletes throughout the campus.

L.I.F.E. Support Inc. is geared toward about 40 middle schoolers and is designed with a three-pronged goal of tutoring/mentoring, giving athletic support and having a field trip day.

Men’s soccer

The men’s soccer team suffered its first loss of the exhibition season at the hands of Notre Dame on Saturday at the Illinois Governor’s Cup.

The Fighting Irish, a No. 5 seed in last season’s NCAA Tournament, dealt the Huskies a 1-0 defeat after NIU had already won a pair of games.

The Huskies (4-1-5) started the tournament with wins of 1-0 and 3-1 over Northwestern and Oakland (Mich.).

Men’s golf

The Huskies finished 12th at the 12-team Purdue Boilermaker Invitational over the weekend.

Ethan Roush shot a 5-over-par 21 and finished tied for 16 in the tournament for the Huskies.