Worries over equal treatment of women's athletics have been sweeping the country. This of course raises the question, how does NIU rank in its treatment of women's sports? Does NIU treat women's sports equally with men's in terms of publicity, financial...

Who said March Madness is restricted to NCAA basketball? Not the NIU gymnastics team. With four meets remaining—beginning March 5 at home (last three on the road)—the ladies are looking to transpose their success into a regional bid at Louisiana State...

Somewhere, it has been said that practice makes perfect. Poland native Goha Mroz somehow has avoided that stereotype in her travels worldwide. But, in some way, those journeys had to play into her efforts Sunday afternoon at Chick Evans Field House. The...

Give a huskie some familiar surroundings and it will escape undaunted. Give the Huskies a challenge and they will respond in ascending fashion. As the NIU women's gymnastics team took off on its once-a-year plane trip to faraway land, realizations could...

Oh, so close ... yet, so far. Unfortunately, that frustrating cliche loomed over the Huskies as the totals rolled. The numbers became an illusion. So did the victory. When the NIU gymnastics team cruised on up to Central Michigan University for its first...

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...