With another month of Huskie sports comes another batch of heroics and heartbreak. From lengthy losing streaks to game-changing goals, these are the most thrilling and stinging moments from the last month of NIU Athletics. HIGH: MEN’S SOCCER SNAPS...

NIU gymnastics released its 2025 schedule Thursday afternoon, outlining 12 meets with four on Huskie soil in the spring. "We are super excited to be only 71 days away from our 2025 season," interim gymnastics head coach Dawnita Teague said in the NIU...

With 15 seconds left on the clock Saturday against Ball State University, NIU was on the cusp of victory. Senior kicker Kanon Woodill had just made a 47-yard field goal to give the Huskies their first lead of the game. But once again, the Cardinals...

NIU men’s basketball’s new-look roster aims to exceed expectations as the Huskies enter year four of head coach Rashon Burno’s tenure.  In the Mid-American Conference’s preseason poll, NIU was picked to finish 11th in the conference, only...

Led by goals in each match last week, graduate student midfielder Abby Zipse has earned Huskie of the Week for the second week in a row. In the same match in which she eclipsed Debbie Huston for the most games played for NIU women’s soccer, Zipse...

NIU women’s soccer (9-4-5, 3-3-4 MAC) scored a late goal to tie with the University of Toledo Rockets (6-7-4, 3-4-3 MAC), leaving the Huskies tied for fifth place in Mid-American Conference standings with one match remaining.  “I’m proud...

MUNCIE, Ind. – As NIU football head coach Thomas Hammock emerged from the visiting locker room at Scheumann Stadium, he hung his head low with his hands at his hips. Minutes earlier, he watched as his Huskies suffered yet another heartbreaking defeat...

NIU men’s soccer (3-11, 1-5 MVC) snapped a six match losing streak and earned its first Missouri Valley Conference win with a 1-0 victory against Belmont University Bruins (4-8-3, 1-5-1 MVC).  The defeat of the Bruins marks the first win for the...

NIU volleyball (3-16, 1-8 MAC) fell to the Western Michigan University Broncos (9-11, 5-4 MAC) in three sets Tuesday. It is the second game in a row that the Huskies have been swept and the seventh sweep of the season.  NEW GAME, SAME RESULT The...

After each scoring a goal in NIU women’s soccer’s (8-4-4, 2-3-3 MAC) 2-1 victory over Eastern Michigan University on Friday, sophomore midfielder Isabel Struble and graduate student midfielder Abby Zipse share this week’s Huskie of the Week Award.  Starting...

DeKALB – Playing in front of a home crowd of more than 18,000 for the second time this season, NIU football had the University of Toledo beat on paper in Saturday’s 117th Homecoming Game. The Huskies ran 92 plays, put up 391 yards of offense and...

DeKALB – On the eve of the 117th Homecoming Football game, former NIU men’s track and field star Matt Byrnes stood at the podium. Still wearing the same handlebar mustache he rocked in his athletic hayday in the 1970s, Byrnes regaled the audience...