On a special episode of All-Star, Sports Editor Ethan Gonzales and Assistant Sports Editor Alex Crowe talk about their journey to becoming the sports editor duo at the Northern Star.
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By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 16, 2023
DeKALB — Three NIU men’s soccer players have been selected to the 2023 Missouri Valley Conference men’s soccer scholar-athlete first and second teams, announced by the league office Wednesday.
Senior defenders Dylan Banker and Parker Jeppson...
By Lucas Didier, Sports Editor
| November 16, 2023
NIU women’s golf is adding a highly successful athlete with the signing of Alexa Ouellet from De La Salle College in Toronto, Ontario.
Ouellet won Golf Ontario’s 4-Ball championship in 2022 and 2023. She also won the AJGA Mercy Health Foundation...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 16, 2023
DeKALB – Eighty-two days after the 2023 campaign got its start, the NIU volleyball team completed the season’s final act Wednesday.
Cheers and whistles from the 625-person crowd permeated through Victor E. Court as two squads in very different...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 16, 2023
Throw everything you know about sports rankings out the window. The Associated Press Top 25, March Madness seeding, forget it.
Instead, wouldn’t it be infinitely more interesting to see how you, dear reader, would fare in a melee battle against these...
By Zack Rodriguez, Former Sports Reporter
| November 15, 2023
DeKALB – NIU softball head coach Christina Sutcliffe has announced the signing of six new women’s softball recruits for the 2025 season, NIU Athletics announced on Tuesday.
Columbia High School senior Jaylyn Brister is poised to make her Huskie...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 15, 2023
The Huskies are at the finish line.
After 29 matches, 112 sets and 4,867 rallies worth of volleyball, NIU’s regular season finale is here.
Days removed from having its postseason aspirations fizzle out, the NIU volleyball team is back home to...
By Zachary Bertram, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 15, 2023
DeKALB – After a crushing 20-17 loss to Ball State University last week, NIU football (5-6, 4-3 MAC) bounced back on senior night at Huskie Stadium, cruising past the Western Michigan University Broncos (4-7, 3-4 MAC) 24-0 Tuesday.
NIU dominated...
By Skyler Kisellus, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 14, 2023
The NIU gymnastics squad prepares for the next chapter in its 47-year history.
In this chapter, the Huskies seek to flip the script from the one before after being left unsatisfied with their finish in last season’s conference title meet.
“They...
By Zachary Bertram, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 14, 2023
DeKALB – A historic scoring night on Monday from NIU men’s basketball (2-1) led to a 107-55 Huskies blowout over the Illinois Institute of Technology Scarlet Hawks (1-3).
The Huskies’ 107-point outburst was the first time an NIU basketball team...
DeKALB – Junior guard David Coit of the NIU men’s basketball team has secured Huskie of the Week honors after a 27-point outing in Saturday’s 91-78 victory over Appalachian State University.
The 5-foot-11 guard out of Columbus, New Jersey, shot...
By Zachary Bertram, Senior Sports Reporter
| November 13, 2023
DeKALB – NIU women’s basketball head coach Lisa Carlsen announced three signings for the 2024-25 season Friday.
The Huskies signed Makenzie Brass, Lexi Carlsen (Lisa Carlsen’s daughter) and Julia “Bubba” Sollberger to National Letters of...
