"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....

While most of NIU's athletes are recruited out of high school, the Huskie women's gymnastics team is comprised mostly of club participants. The majority of NIU's tumblers bypassed their high school teams and instead opted to compete on a national level...

Momentum and team spirit carried the NIU women's gymnastics squad to victory this past weekend. The Huskies posted a 185.85-184.25 dual-meet triumph Saturday over host Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. And coach Bobbie Cesarek credits much of...

It's back to Michigan for the NIU women's gymnastics team this weekend. And the word is that the Huskies are out to improve their score. Kalamazoo, Mich. is Saturday's destination, and NIU will take on Western Michigan University in a dual meet slated...

Good seasons—like the NIU gymnastics team's 16th-place finish in the nation last year—are sometimes hard to match. But, for coach Bobbie Cesarek and her Huskie tumblers, the makings are all in the bag. The team's current record stands at 8-3 as of...

One too many tumbles did it in for the NIU gymnastics team Friday night. The Huskies spent their Valentine's Day in Ann Arbor, Mich., where the team fell short to blue-ribbon winner University of Michigan and to second-place finisher Louisiana State University....

The Huskie women's gymnastics team will have to dig deep tonight as they take on two outstanding rivals in a triangular meet. Ann Arbor, Mich., is the Valentine's Day destination, where NIU will battle the University of Michigan and Louisiana State University...

Huskie gymnast Sandy Escobar has had her share of setbacks, but nothing it seems, can deprive her of contributing all she can. In November of last year, only weeks after recovering from appendicitis surgery, Escobar fractured her left ankle and underwent...