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Bowling Green QB runs over Huskies defense

By Adam Zolmierski | October 27, 2003

Bowling Green, Ohio - On the second play of the second quarter, Bowling Green quarterback Josh Harris completed a 17-yard pass to receiver Charles Sharon, giving him 230 yards total offense. The Huskies as a team had 226 total yards - for the entire game....

GameDay makes first appearance at MAC school

By Adam Zolmierski | October 27, 2003

Bowling Green (OH)-Thousands of Falcons fans, along with about a hundred Huskie fans, gathered to cheer, chant and argue on Saturday. -- all because ESPN’s GameDay was at a MAC school for the first time. Scouts from the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and the...

Huskies win third consecutive at home

By Sean Connor | October 27, 2003

Freshman Kevin Woerner of the NIU men’s soccer team stole the spotlight on Senior Recognition Day. Scoring one goal and tallying one assist, Woerner led the Huskies (3-11-2, 2-3 MAC) to a 2-0 win against Buffalo (1-11-3, 0-6) Sunday at Huskie Soccer...

Top two MAC teams visit NIU

By Steve Brown | October 23, 2003

Two top MAC teams come DeKalb this weekend for the NIU women’s soccer team’s final two conference games of the season. With the Huskies out of tournament contention, coach Frank Horvat’s team hopes to finish the season with a four-game winning streak....

Harris an offensive threat for Falcons

By Mark Pickrel | October 23, 2003

Josh Harris doesn’t have his own hot sauce or his own Web site. Bowling Green hasn’t gone out of their way to promote Harris the way NIU has promoted Michael Turner for Heisman. Harris has shirts, that’s about it. But what Harris does have that...

Volleyball team looks to pick up a win

By Ian Waddick | October 23, 2003

Nearly a month ago, the NIU volleyball team began MAC play with a straight-games loss to defending conference champ Ball State. The loss, held at BSU’s Worthen Arena (where the Cardinals had a 56-match winning streak), was the Huskies’ second in 12...

Huskies take on Buffalo

By Sean Connor | October 23, 2003

Despite a 2-11-2 record, NIU men’s assistant soccer coach Ian Clerihew thinks that nobody wants to play the Huskies. After a 1-0 loss to No. 12 Akron Friday, NIU coach Steve Simmons said the Huskies are peaking at the right time. “It’s now a three-game...

Script flipped for NIU football

By Adam Zolmierski | October 23, 2003

NIU will play an away game against Bowling Green this weekend. This time, the roles are reversed from a year ago. The No. 12 Huskies (7-0) are the ones coming in unbeaten, while the No. 23 Falcons (6-1) are trying to use their home-field advantage to...

Hockey club to host RMC

By Steve Harnden | October 22, 2003

The NIU hockey club will host two games against Robert Morris College this weekend, and is looking for its first two-game sweep of the season. The first game is at 10 p.m. Friday at the Carlson Arctic Ice Arena and the second is at 6 p.m. Saturday at...

Not what they expected

By Sean Connor | October 22, 2003

Never winning more than seven games in a season, the final year for the NIU men’s soccer team’s senior class is a rebuilding process under first-year NIU coach Steve Simmons. The three seniors on the team, Matt Stukenberg, Jason Sullivan and Brandon...

Making sacrifices for football team

By Steve Brown | October 22, 2003

NIU football coach Joe Novak expects priorities from his players.

School first, football second and social life third.

“They do have a social life,” Novak said. “They do have time for that, it just can’t be the No. 1 priority.”

Coaches often check on players who are struggling academically, to make sure they are attending classes.

“Coach Novak always says school is more important,” said Quince Holman, who started his first game on Saturday at defensive end. “If you really have something on your back, like a thesis or something, they’ll give you some slack and maybe let you miss some meetings or something.”

That sort of situation doesn’t happen often, Novak said.

“These kids don’t take advantage of it,” Novak said. “I’m not going to say I like it when people miss meetings and practice, but I really feel that their priorities are school first.”

For Novak, priority is key.

“Some of our kids will bring books on the bus,” Novak said. “We’ve got a five-hour bus ride; what a great time to do some studying. It all depends on the priorities these kids have.”

Red-shirt freshman quarterback Andre Brown agreed that time management plays a crucial role in surviving as a collegiate student-athlete.

“We’re up at the break of dawn and we don’t get to sleep until everything is done,” Brown said. “As long as you set priorities, you’re fine.”

Brown said he wakes up at 6:30 a.m. and usually gets to bed about midnight.

It’s difficult to adapt to the tight schedule of a football player freshman year, Holman said.

“You have to manage your time well,” Holman said. “If you don’t, you’re going to be swamped. Freshman year was pretty bad. I didn’t know how to manage my time well. I was all over the place.”

Novak said he’s seen improvement out of Holman, as well as others.

“I know he’s better than when he got here,” said Novak, of Holman’s time management. “I’d say 99 percent of the kids are a lot better. Basically, if they didn’t get better, they wouldn’t be here.”

A lack of free time forces players to manage what little time they have.

“Having practice, study tables and football forces you to grow up quickly,” Brown said. “Having something to do throughout the day helps out, and it’ll help us in the real world.”

Studies show that athletes do better academically in the season than out of season because time is so tight that it forces them to manage their time, Novak said.

“In the off-season, when they get some free time, sometimes they get away from what they need to do,” he said.

For Brown, the costs of playing football are worth the rewards.

“It’s one of the sacrifices you have to make when you’re on one of the best football teams in the nation,” he said.

Setting up the offense for NIU volleyball

By Ian Waddick | October 22, 2003

For NIU volleyball player Marie Zidek, being a setter is always challenging. But that’s exactly why she loves it. Huskies coach Ray Gooden likens being a setter to being the quarterback of a football field. In football, the quarterback runs the offense...

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