NIU student Susan Trimby is this year's winner of the H.W. Wilson Scholarship from NIU's library and information studies department. The award is for full-time study of the Master of Arts degree during the 1989 school year and was founded by the H.W....

Looking to pick up where it left off last spring, the NIU women's golf team begins its season Saturday and Sunday in the 18-team University of Notre Dame Lady Irish Invitational. NIU closed its spring 1988-89 season by winning the University of Illinois...

Titans able to use both air and ground in NIU opener by Eric Burt NIU head coach Jerry Pettibone summed up the feelings of all his players after Wednesday's practice. "We're getting tired of hitting each other." Instead of tackling each other this Saturday,...

NIU soccer kicks off what may be its most promising season today because of one important factor—maturity. "The maturity factor is the big thing that will help us this year," said third-year coach Willy Roy. "We had a young team last year and played...

Experience. Depth. Quality throughout. All of these things were foreign to the NIU coaching staff the past several years when talking about the running back position. This saturday when the Huskies line up against Cal-State Fullerton, one area the NIU...

Chuck Merzbacher begins a new chapter in his success-oriented tennis career as he becomes NIU's 24th head men's tennis coach. Fresh from the professional playing ranks, Merzbacher was named Huskie men's tennis boss by NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell....

For the NIU field hockey team, Saturday's exhibition performance was enough to pass. However, coach Laurie Bell was convinced the Huskies have work to do before they can ace the 1989 season. NIU did post a 1-0 shutout victory in an extended 80-minute...

NIU's football season opener with Cal State-Fullerton (Sept. 2) is less than a week away, but the coaches are not worried. "We've practiced hard to get ready for Cal State," defensive coordinator Tim McGuire said. "We're on schedule." The same holds true...

In its last season as a member of the Big Central Soccer Conference, the NIU soccer team has its eyes set on improving last years 0-6-0 intraconference record. The Huskies will join the Association of Mid-Continent Universities the following year so the...

Believing in one's ability plays a key role in athletics. And the NIU women's field hockey team needs to believe in itself as the 1989 fall season approaches. The Huskies finished the 1988 schedule with a 15-3-1 record—good enough to rank them 19th...

Willy Roy has come a long way since the days he and his brother first played soccer in a chicken pen in East Germany. So when the third-year NIU soccer coach is inducted into the United States Soccer Federation Hall of Fame this weekend, he undoubtedly...