In the realm of sports, a place most people deem as a "man's world," one woman has entered the sacred territory. She is the commissioner of the Gateway Conference, and she is the only woman to supervise a man's sport. She is Patty Viverito. The NIU graduate...
The NIU men's golf team will swing into action this weekend coming off an eighth-place finish in the University of Minnesota Invitational last weekend. The Huskies will travel to the University of Northern Iowa to participate in the Northern Iowa Fall...
NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis returned from Minneapolis "pleased with a number of things." His team had just finished eighth at the 13-team University of Minnesota Invitational, and he had gotten a good look at his five qualifiers. "I like to think...
A young but experienced team can only mean a positive future for any sport. For Pam Tyska, NIU women's golf coach, she hopes that future begins now. While the third-year boss lost a top-notch golfer in Sue (Sisler) Ellett, Tyska has eight returning athletes...
NIU's Associate Athletic Director Susie Pembroke-Jones left the DeKalb area for a position as assistant director of athletics at George Washington University. As of Wednesday, the 39-year-old began her duties by watching over nine sports, which include...
The NIU athletic department has "indicated some interest" in becoming affiliated with Association of Mid-Continent Universities conference, league commissioner F.L. Ferzacca said Tuesday. Ferzacca said he spoke with NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell...
The Florida heat hasn't improved or worsened the performance of the NIU men's golf team. The Huskies duplicated Monday's 314 score on Tuesday, to cap a 628 composite for a sixth-place tie with Skidmore in the 54-hole Florida Citrus Bowl Classic Tournament....
Len Bias chose to celebrate, as any person would, when he was picked as a first-round draft choice for the World Champion Boston Celtics in June of 1986. Unfortunately for Bias, that one moment of glory is all he will ever receive as he was found dead...
When NIU athletic directors Robert Brigham and Susie Pembroke-Jones brought their teams' athletic schedules for next year to the Athletic Board Wednesday, board members did more than just look at the Huskies' opponents. Part of the discussion revolved...
Because of the teams competing at Saturday's 18th Annual Marshall University Invitational, NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis was not the least bit upset with the 11th-place finish. "We're in the middle of the pack overall," Pheanis said. "But scorewise...
The NIU women's volleyball team, heading into its last weekend of conference play on the road until the last weekend of the season, has rebounded after losing its first two road conference games.
"We've accomplished what we wanted to in the fact that we've dug ourselves out of a hole," said coach Todd Kress.
The Huskies (8-4 overall, 5-2 in the Mid-American Conference) have sent a message to the rest of the MAC the past two weeks by winning five in a row, three of which have been away from Chick Evans Field House.
This weekend NIU will travel by bus to Ohio and West Virginia, to battle conference foes Ohio and Marshall.
Last season Ohio defeated the Huskies at home, but NIU retaliated in the MAC tournament by scoring a 4-game match win. NIU defeated Marshall in its only meeting, a year ago, in three games.
For the weekend, balance, defense and blocking will be the focus for the Huskies. As always Kress stresses these to his players.
NIU has been extremely balanced, and that has helped them excel, said senior Carrie Blankenship, who credited her recent MAC player of the week award to the play of her teammates.
The players, as well as Kress, want to win both matches this weekend and come back to the fieldhouse for nine of the next 10 in good standing within the conference.
"We knew when looking at the schedule that seven of nine on the road would be very tough to start," said Kress. "I think we've put ourselves in a good position if we can finish the work that we've started and get these two this weekend."
One thing is for certain. NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis is an optimist. Moving up one notch from the second day in the team standings at the Central Florida Citrus Classic was enough to convince the Huskie coach his team will survive. NIU finished...
