"Maybe next year" is becoming an annual catch-phrase for the NIU soccer team. Once again, the Huskies (10-5-3) could not win over the NCAA selection committee for an invitation to the 28-team post-season tournament. "I'm not dissappointed," NIU coach...

Quality, not quantity, is often a better measure of effort. At least NIU men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher thinks so. While the three Huskie entries in the Thursday through Sunday Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association (ITCA)/Rolex Midwest Indoor...

When is an off-week not a week off? When you're dealing with Division-I collegiate football. Although the Huskies did not battle an opponent on the gridiron this weekend, the NIU gridders remained busy. The Huskies practiced lightly this week in preparation...

After playing close games a majority of the season, it was only fitting the NIU field hockey team closed out 1991 with two more nailbiters. The Huskies played the opposition even over the weekend at East Lansing, Mich. NIU matched its two foes with three...

The NIU men's and women's swimming teams took to the road Saturday and found themselves coming home with two defeats. In their first action of the season, the Huskie men fell to Western Illinois University 126-117 at Macomb. After winning last week at...

Tearing a page out of Dorothy's notebook, the NIU volleyball team utilized the "there's no place like home," theme in defeating the Western Illinois Westerwinds Saturday at Chick Evans Field House. NIU thanked its fans for their support throughout the...

The NIU soccer team starred as "Accidental Tourists" in a nightmarish trip to Dayton, Ohio. On Wednesday, the Huskies' United flight to Dayton was delayed due to engine problems, and the team had to change flights to American Airlines. "It must have been...

It took a couple years of on-the-court experience, but NIU volleyball player Wendy Mason has finally found her niche on the team. Mason, a 5-10 junior from Lyons, Colo., is having her best season ever. Mason was named to three all-tournament teams in...

As DeKalb continues to freeze, the NIU field hockey team will take shelter inside this weekend. The Huskies travel to East Lansing, Mich., to conclude its 1991 campaign. NIU and the University of Michigan square off Saturday at noon at Spartan Stadium....

Soyini Chism has her fingers crossed. The 6-0 sophomore has been on the NIU women's basketball team's roster for the last two seasons, but she has yet to see much time on the court. Chism tore her right anterior cruciate ligament in practice in 1989 and...

The NIU swimming team is making a stop in Macomb this weekend in hopes of sinking the Western Illinois University Leathernecks. Both the men's and women's teams will compete Saturday in what coach Jeanne Fleck predicts to be a close meet between two good...

Freshmen Marty Engel and Matt Green will get a taste of top-level collegiate tennis for the first time at the Rolex Midwest Indoor Regional Tournament at Madison, Wis., starting today. But for junior Dustin Dobrin, the only Huskie to win a match in this...