Over the past four years, Jen VonderHaar has seen her career hit both peaks and valleys. The NIU middle blocker took the Huskies from a 10-15 record in her freshman year to a 24-6 mark and a MAC championship in her junior campaign. This year VonderHaar...

While the NIU football team is stealing the headlines, the NIU men’s tennis team had some success of its own over the weekend at the ITA Midwest Regional IV Championship. The duo of Juan Pablo Barriga and Erick Martinez won the doubles draw to advance...

While there will be no MAC Tournament for the NIU women’s soccer team, there is still one game to be played that has some implications to it. The Huskies (6-11, 4-8 MAC) will take on in-state rival DePaul University at 2:00 pm. today at Huskie Soccer...

The garden is green, the fruit is ripe and things are looking awfully good for the NIU football team. When the Huskies welcome in 18th-ranked Bowling Green on Nov. 9, the stakes will be high and the players fully realize this. "This is a real big game...

The NIU lacrosse club team lost its three games this weekend while hosting the NIU Fall Classic to end the fall season. The Huskies opened up Saturday with a 9-8 loss to Western Illinois, and in their second game they fell 7-5 to Wisconsin-Whitewater....

Kerri Royer’s return to her home state wasn’t exactly what she and the NIU volleyball team hoped for. Royer, a native of Kalamazoo, returned to Michigan along with her teammates as the Huskies lost to Eastern Michigan on Friday and Central Michigan...

The NIU men’s soccer team needed to convert more scoring opportunities on offense. Bernhard Hagevik and Rasih Pala answered the call, netting five goals against Marshall on Friday. However, defensive breakdowns at the end of the first half and in the...

The MAC Tournament once again remained elusive for the NIU women’s soccer team as it was defeated by the University of Toledo 3-1 Friday. There was a positive side to the weekend as the Huskies (6-11,4-8) came back from a two-goal deficit against Bowling...

The NIU men’s soccer team is on a roll going into the last two games of the regular season. Following the lead of freshman goalkeeper Steve Goletz, named MAC Player of the Week, the Huskies find themselves in a fourth place tie with their next opponent,...

It would be safe to say this year’s NIU football team has ventured into unfamiliar territory. The Huskies (5-3, 4-0) have won four straight games for the first time under coach Joe Novak and won’t need any help to claim a MAC West Division title....

On Saturday morning, the NIU men’s basketball team was on display to about 150 fans at the new Convocation Center in an intra-squad scrimmage. With three 10-minute quarters, the teams were mixed up each quarter so second-year coach Rob Judson could...

Coaching major college football for 28 years is considered an amazing feat by many. But living with a major college football coach for 33 years, like Carole Novak has, that’s monumental. "It’s an exciting life," said Carole Novak, wife of NIU coach...