By Ethan Gonzales, Former Sports Editor
| April 21, 2024
Editor’s note: This piece has been updated to clarify that Sigma Nu has won three consecutive Tugs championships prior to this year, as the IFC did not sanction a Tugs championship in 2021 due to COVID-19.
DeKALB – No. 1 Sigma Nu defeated...
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...
Junior Emma Vorpagel earned NIU women’s track and field’s only top-10 finish in the 800-meter run at the Michael Johnson Invitational.
Vorpagel took a fourth place finish in the 800-meter run, finishing with a time of 2:14.33. The junior distance...
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 – NIU softball (13-28, 6-13 MAC) split Saturday’s doubleheader with the University at Buffalo (14-25, 6-12 MAC), winning 11-3 and losing 4-1.
Game 1 brought 13 hits for the Huskies en route to a mercy rule victory in the sixth inning. Senior...
NIU women’s tennis (15-10, 4-5 MAC) snuck past the Ball State Cardinals (7-14, 4-5 MAC) with a 4-3 victory to earn its fourth win in the MAC.
“The doubles got us off to a great start, we played well there,” said NIU women’s tennis head coach...
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 – NIU women’s golf head coach Kim Kester received a multi-year contract extension, NIU Vice President and Director of Athletics Sean Frazier announced Wednesday. The contract extension keeps Kester in DeKalb through June of 2027.
“She...
By Zack Rodriguez, Former Sports Reporter
| April 17, 2024
Phi Kappa Theta conquered Sigma Alpha Epsilon in a three- rope brawl to advance in the 2024 Interfraternity Council men’s tugs tournament on Wednesday.
Alpha Sigma Phi triumphed over Tau Kappa Epsilon after a tense three-round tiebreaker, earning...
DeKALB – Nearly a quarter-century after the end of his storied tenure at the helm of NIU volleyball, Pete Waite is bound for the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame.
Waite was announced as the third member of the 2024 NIU Athletics Hall of Fame Class on Tuesday,...
NIU softball (12-27, 5-12 MAC) was held to one run in a doubleheader sweep by Western Michigan University (22-17, 11-5 MAC) on Tuesday.
The Huskies recorded just 7 hits and were outscored 4-1, losing the season series against the Broncos.
GAME 1:...
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...
