With the season opener now under its belt, the NIU women's gymnastics team can be proud of a second place finish. NIU traveled southwest this weekend to begin its season in the University of Missouri Shakespeare Classic. The host Tigers were the lone...

Has anyone seen head gymnastics' coach Bobbie Cesarek lately? With NIU's gymnastic season still months away (mid-January) she is probably at the golf course, right? Wrong. Between running pre-season practices, recruiting and filling out dreaded NCAA reports,...

Induction ceremonies for the NIU Hall of Fame took place Friday evening in the Holmes Student Center's Duke Ellington Ballroom. Former NIU gymnasts Darlene Davis Blank and Tom Kennedy, former NIU football player Gary Stearns, former NIU Sports Information...

Considered best female all-around gymnastics performer in NIU history. Two-time NCAA Regional qualifier (1984-86). Named NIU Woman Athlete of Year (1985-86). Won Mid-American Conference All-Around title with league-record 35.60 score (1984). Two-time...

The number 13 lived up to its unlucky reputation for NIU gymnast Vicki Thimgan. As (un)luck would have it, Thimgan found out Monday that she missed qualifying for the NCAA National Gymnastic Tournament by one-tenth of a point. Thimgan was in the running...

Chalking up an outstanding premier appearance at the NCAA Central Regional Championships was the objective, but the NIU women's gymnastic team had to chalk it up as experience. The Huskies took a disappointing fifth-place finish in the seven team regional...

Winning is fun, but revenge can be "oh so sweet." The NIU women's gymnatics team is hoping for a little of both when the Huskies head to Auburn for their first-ever team appearance at the NCAA Central Regional Championships Saturday at 7 p.m. NIU's regional...

Two NIU women gymnasts will be leaving a lifetime of gymnastics behind them when they board the plane for Auburn, Ala., Thursday. The NCAA Central Regional Championships Saturday at Auburn University is the last time seniors Martha Unger and Laurie Vitallo...

Spring: The time when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of ... baseball. Until recently, if you were a baseball fan at NIU you had to make do with televised Cubs and Sox games. But last year, the powers-that-be at NIU decided to drop the men's gymnastics...

In the world of women's gymnastics, earning respect and notoriety takes more than NIU's No. 15 national team ranking and a 22-1 record. The principle is simple: Having one great season is good for the team. Having consistently great seasons is good for...

More than a single thorn would be necessary to mar the otherwise rosy season of the NIU women's gymnastic team. But that one thorn can still be difficult to ignore. NIU headed into its last regular season meet—the Mississippi Valley Championships—with...

Six-tenths of a point was all it took to stop the NIU women's gymnastics team from achieving its first-ever undefeated season. In Friday's Mississippi Valley Championships, host Southeast Missouri State managed to squeeze by the Huskies with a 190.15-189.55...