NIU's level II programs were in full tilt over the holiday weekend. But one of those "deprived" groups performed with the escitement of a level 1 program. The NIU gymnastics team, attempting to bounce back from mistakes in Muncie, dominated in DeKalb...

"Apprehensive." Coach Bobbie Cesarek leads the NIU gymnastics team into its first home meet of the season tomorrow attached to the feared emotion. "Just a little bit," added the 16-year skipper. "It seems like when it happens, it happens." After Sandy...

They've had a couple of days to think it over. What should have been ... wasn't. What was ... shouldn't have been. NIU gymnastics is now officially underway. With this past weekend's disappointing last place finish at the Ball State Pentangular now behind...

Barbara Lyles was there at the beginning. As a 1975 graduate of NIU, Lyles was a member of the Huskie field hockey team that made the transition from club sport to Division I status. She's still involved in the game as the head girls' field hockey coach...

NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell met with members of the field hockey program yesterday to inform them that he is recommending the program be dropped. "We will meet with the Executive Committee of the Athletic Board to make a recommendation to them...

The tallies are in and the Huskie women's gymnastics team 1992 campaign is officially over. After Saturday's performance at Chick Evans Field House, NIU played a waiting game to see if its team average was high enough to qualify for the postseason regionals....

NIU women's gymnastics coach Bobbie Cesarek and her squad could not have asked for a more pleasing season finale this weekend. The Huskies stole the show in the Midwest Independent Gymnastics Championships after registering a season-best 189.15 Saturday...

"On the road again" seems to be the general theme for NIU athletic teams this weekend. Things start out tonight at 7 p.m. when the NIU gymnastics team competes in the eight-team State of Illinois Classic at Champaign. Then, on Saturday, the 3-4 Huskies'...

After registering its highest meet score of the season in the first of two outings scheduled in California, the Huskie women's gymnastics team's voyage to the West Coast looked promising. But, a third-place finish at California State University- Fullerton...

Although the NIU women's gymnastics team has not yet reached the top of the mountain yet, the Huskies are nearing that peak meet after meet. Last Tuesday, that became evident when the squad's 188.6 mark gave NIU the blue ribbon at the University of California-Santa...

The Huskie women gymnasts are heading west over Spring Break—but fun in the sun will have to take a backseat. With a triangular meet Tuesday at University of Santa Barbara and another competition Friday at California State University- Fullerton, NIU...

Tonight's home gymnastics meet will be extra special for the NIU tumblers who competed on last year's NCAA regional qualifying team. In a pre-meet ceremony, the Huskies will receive their rings for the 1991 NCAA competition, in which the entire team qualified....