Each year NIU athletic teams add new players to their rosters. The incoming athletes come from various places and have different backgrounds. From the way they got started in sports, to their many inspirations, these athletes must gel with a new team...

DeKALB | The NIU softball team fell twice in its doubleheader versus DePaul on Saturday by scores of 5-0 and 6-3. Outfielder Jenna Roberts and second basemen Bailey Ouellette led the Huskies offensively in both games. "They are seniors who worked really...

The Huskies begin their fall exhibition schedule this Saturday in the Illinois Collegiate Softball Championship. NIU had three games scheduled for this past weekend, but they were canceled due to rain. The Huskies were supposed to play one game on Saturday...

With heavy rains and flooding hitting Illinois over the weekend, the NIU softball team found its games washed away in the rain as well. Saturday's home game against Loyola-Chicago and Sunday's games versus Notre Dame and Lewis University were canceled....

The regular season may be a semester away but the NIU softball team is already getting into full swing. The Huskies will host Loyola-Chicago on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the opening game of their Fall schedule. On Sunday, NIU will travel to Joliet to take...

Making the adjustment to the college lifestyle can be hard for any freshman. It can be even more stressful at times for freshmen athletes like NIU volleyball player Allison McGlaughlin. From things like missing classes to juggling homework with team meetings...

First year NIU softball coach Lindsay Chouinard had just one losing season in her four years as an assistant coach at DePaul. Those four years were a lot different than Chouinard's debut season at the helm of the Huskie softball program. NIU went just...

When I first came to NIU two years ago, I joined the Northern Star sports section for two reasons: I like sports and I like writing. I was excited by the opportunity to cover all the different teams, working with them and somehow sharing a glimpse of...

"I got to first base and started crying." Third baseman Krista McPherson singled in her last regular season at-bat at Mary M. Bell Field. "I was just thinking about how bad I wanted it to keep going," she said. "I didn't want to end on a loss." McPherson,...

With its seniors playing their last home game, the NIU softball team pulled through in the end. A bases loaded, walk-off double by junior Bailey Ouellette gave the Huskies a 6-5 win over Ball State Sunday afternoon in the second game of a doubleheader....

Ball State beat NIU softball on Sunday 4-2 while Central Michigan held on to beat NIU 8-6. The Huskies baseball squad had the bases loaded with no outs in the bottom of the ninth. A strikeout and two fly outs later, NIU fell in game one. Taryn Hagemann...

There are many different styles in which teams play softball. This weekend, NIU will get a look at two distinctly different styles when the Huskies host Miami-Ohio and Ball State in MAC play. First up for NIU (12-27 overall, 6-10 MAC) is a doubleheader...