Knowing exactly what to expect, NIU gymnasts Holly Reichard and Jennifer Naughton jumped into NCAA Regionals with their fear far behind them. Both the sophomore and senior made the trip to regionals last year, and a year's experience proved to be all...

"It was basically the happiest news I could have got." That's what senior Jennifer Naughton said about earning a bid to the NCAA regional in Fayetteville, Ark. this Saturday with teammates Holly Reichard and Leah Johnson. "It was pretty much unbelievable...

Holly Reichard and Jennifer Naughton earned NCAA bids in the all-around and balance beam respectively for the competition on Saturday, April 4 at Fayetteville, Ark. Reichard was named the 2009 MAC Gymnast of the Year by league coaches while Naughton became...

On Friday, sophomore Holly Reichard was named MAC Gymnast of the Year. On Saturday, she and MAC Senior of the Year Jennifer Naughton led the NIU gymnastics squad to a third-place finish at the MAC Championship in Muncie, Ind. The Huskies, with a score...

On the eve of the MAC Championships the NIU gymnastics team saw two its members honored by the Mid-American Conference. Sophomore Holly Reichard was named the MAC Gymnast of the Year for her performances, leading the Huskies is nearly every event this...

Senior gymnast Jennifer Naughton was named Gymnast of the Week, making it the fourth time a Huskie has been given the award. Naughton joins two-time winner Holly Reichard and Natalie Blum. Naughton won the balance beam competition at the Illinois Classic,...

A positive streak is always a good thing when heading into the postseason and the NIU gymnastics team has exactly that going for it. NIU heads into the MAC Championships on Saturday in Munice, Ind. following two of its top three scores this season. After...

Kirk Mango remembers the feeling like it was yesterday. He was standing in the middle of the Chick Evans Field House. The old basketball arena was crowded. Fans spilled out of the bleachers onto the floor. Those who showed up on time didn't have a seat,...

A trio of NIU gymnasts have led the way for Mark Sontag and Co., and that trio did the same in the Huskies' 195.850-192.975 loss to No. 18 Minnesota on Saturday night. Holly Reichard, Natalie Blum and Jennifer Naughton led the charge for the Huskies,...

Kent State stuck it to the NIU gymnastic's team Sunday afternoon, proving its reign in the MAC. While the Huskies (4-2 overall, 3-2 MAC) celebrated ‘Stick it Pink,' an effort to increase breast cancer awareness, the Golden Flashes came out victorious...

For years, the NIU wrestling team had something that most Division I programs didn't â€" and it wasn't a good thing. Until the fall of 2008, NIU didn't even have its own wrestling room. The program had to share a practice facility with NIU's gymnastics...

The beam event came back to bite the Huskies gymnastics team on Friday at the UIC Triangular. One bad event put the team in second place with a 193.000, losing to UIC's 193.725 and defeating Seattle Pacific (189.275). "To have a set-back like we did on...