By Zack Rodriguez, Former Sports Reporter
| April 25, 2024
Former NIU star safety Jimmie Ward will be inducted into the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2024, NIU announced Tuesday.
Ward joins the 2024 class along with former quarterback Jordan Lynch, gymnast Holly Reichard, volleyball star Kate McCullagh and...
With the MAC baseball season a little more than halfway over, now is the perfect time to create our own MAC baseball All-Star team.
CATCHER: NIU senior Colin Summerhill
The backstop of the Huskies currently leads the MAC in home runs with 17...
DeKALB – A two-out, ninth-inning grand slam from senior infielder Tim Orr lifted the Kent State University Golden Flashes (19-18, 10-8 MAC) to a 9-8 win and series victory over NIU baseball (12-26, 7-11 MAC) Sunday.
Trailing 7-4 with two outs and...
NIU men’s golf wrapped up the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate Sunday, finishing tied for seventh place out of 18 teams.
The Huskies kicked off the tournament with a score of 296 in the first round and improved in each of the next rounds. NIU shot...
NIU men’s tennis (18-6, 7-3 MAC) has ended its season after being knocked out of the MAC Championship tournament semifinals by the University of Toledo Rockets (13-10, 7-3 MAC).
"It's a disappointing loss," said NIU men’s tennis head coach René...
DeKALB – After dropping Game 1 of the three-game series 7-3 to the Kent State University Golden Flashes (18-18, 9-8 MAC) on Friday, NIU baseball (12-25, 7-10 MAC) flipped the script Saturday with a 7-3 victory to even the series.
A dominant start...
DeKALB – Senior outfielder/catcher Colin Summerhill etched his name in NIU history with his 16th home run of the season as NIU baseball dropped the series opener to Kent State 7-3.
RECORD BREAKER
Summerhill broke the NIU single-season home run...
DeKALB – Former NIU sophomore forward Yanic Konan Niederhauser announced his commitment to The Pennsylvania State University for the 2024-25 season via his Instagram Monday night.
Konan Niederhauser is the first of seven 2023-24 Huskies who entered...
NIU men’s golf wrapped-up the Hawkeye Invitational on Sunday tying for eighth-place out of 16 teams.
Across the tournament the Huskies shot 851 strokes, finishing one-under par. NIU’s best frame of play was the first round, finishing with a score...
Ending the regular season tied for second place in the MAC, NIU men’s tennis (18-5, 7-3 MAC) fell to Western Michigan University (16-5, 8-2 MAC) in the regular season finale.
The Huskies went up 3-0 after clinching the doubles point and winning two...
Senior outfielder/catcher Colin Summerhill tied NIU’s (11-24, 6-9 MAC) single-season record for home runs in Sunday’s 21-11 loss to the University of Illinois (20-13, 7-2 Big Ten).
RECORD-TYING PERFORMANCE
Summerhill smashed two home runs...
The University of Illinois Fighting Illini (19-13, 7-2 Big Ten) cruised to a 16-5 victory over NIU baseball (11-23, 6-9 MAC) for its second-consecutive double digit win over the Huskies Saturday.
For a second straight game, Illinois’ offense was...
