Welcome, oh welcome. Via Michigan by way of Wisconsin. After a couple of stints helping the Big 10, the newest addition of NIU's athletic staff makes his home in the Mid-Continent Conference. He is 26-year-old Tim Madden. He is a graduate of the University...

NIU's outgoing men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher hopes the team gives him a going-away present this weekend against Northwestern University. "Time to send me off with a bang," said Merzbacher, who told The Northern Star Tuesday that he will leave NIU...

He has coached the NIU men's tennis team to two straight Mid-Continent Conference championships, and now he is moving on to bigger and better things. NIU men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher told The Northern Star Tuesday that he will resign from his position...

Some of NIU's men's tennis lesser-lights get a chance to shine this Friday and Saturday at the Mid-Continent Conference Individual Fall Classic at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. "The fall season is really a time to gain experience," NIU coach...

Three members of NIU's men's tennis team will be looking to conquer the country this weekend, while the rest of the team will be at NIU playing for fun. Marty Engel, Dustin Dobrin and Andy Caldwell travel to Austin, Texas this weekend to compete in the...

Victories were few and far between for NIU's tennis squads this weekend: ‘NIU's women's tennis team had a rough time of it in Iowa City, Iowa, as the Huskies lost both matches they played. NIU lost to host Iowa on Friday 9-0 then battled to a 5-3 defeat...

NIU's men's tennis team will have all the competition it will need this weekend when the Huskies travel to the University of Nebraska for the Cornhusker Invitational. "This is the toughest (competition) we have faced since I've been here," coach Chuck...

The NIU men's tennis team is returning to the courts in a big way. The Huskies began training for the upcoming season Tuesday. The pre-season regimen calls for a lot of running and conditioning workouts, with practice commencing on Sept. 8. "We want to...

The way the NIU men's tennis team played over the weekend at the Mid-Continent Conference Championships, no one could beat them, not even Mother Nature, as the Huskies took their second Mid-Con crown in as many years. Cold and wet weather plagued the...

Talk about the perfect tuneup for this Friday and Saturday's Mid-Continent Conference Championship in DeKalb. The NIU men's tennis team chalked up an 8-1 triumph over Illinois-Chicago Friday at NIU's West Campus Courts and then moved back indoors Saturday...

While the Mid-Continent Conference Men's Tennis Championship is actually scheduled for May 24-25 in DeKalb, today and tomorrow could be billed as the Mini-Mid-Con for the NIU team. The Huskies, 8-14 after Tuesday's 6-3 loss to Marquette, host the University...

Andy Schoeberlein is becoming a whole new tennis player. Tuesday, "Schoebs" accounted for two of the three NIU points in a 6-3 loss at Marquette. Schoeberlein beat the Warriors' Matt Tobin in straight sets, 6-4, 6-0 and teamed up with Dustin Dobrin to...