DeKALB | NIU gymnastics is still looking to earn its first win of the season. The Huskies take on Bowling Green in a conference showdown at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Convocation Center. The Huskies (0-3 overall, 0-1 MAC) are coming off a tough loss to Eastern...
DeKALB | In any sport, athletes must be ready to be called upon when last-minute injuries occur. Raw, untested talent doesn't always step up to the plate swinging, though. Such was the case when the NIU gymnastics team faced off against MAC foe Eastern...
Silas reigns once more NIU senior guard Xavier Silas was named MAC West Player of the Week for the fourth time this season following Huskie wins over Eastern Michigan and Toledo. In those two victories, Silas averaged 25.5 points and 4.5 rebounds, including...
Wrestling has been in NIU head coach Dave Grant's life for 30 years and come March, he will be done coaching. Grant, who announced his retirement in April, has been at the head of the wrestling team since 1996 and couldn't be more enthused about his final...
Can you feel it, NIU? Temperatures are up, the sun is out and I can almost taste the brats. Summer is nearly here. The flip side is that another summer brings the end of another year of NIU sports and the inevitable evaluations of how the school's programs...
Bob Brigham took over as NIU's athletic director in 1968. He achieved his first major accomplishment in 1969 by getting the Huskie football program into NCAA Division I-A. Brigham donned the cardinal and black for 50 years as a student-athlete, assistant...
Kirk Mango is a two-time Division I All-American and a three-time NCAA Championships qualifier. The "Lord of the Rings" won a National Championship on the still rings in 1979, defeating Indiana State's Kurt Thomas on April 7. Mango placed second on the...
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...
