Alright sports fans, strap on your seat belts and get ready for the greatest month - March. The third month of the year is full of all the excitement a sports fan could hope for. No, there are no championship games in March, but the month marks the beginning...

It was a bittersweet opening weekend for the NIU softball team. The Huskies started their season with a road trip to the Florida Gulf Coast University Tournament in Fort Myers, Fla. The Huskies won their first four games of the tournament, but ended their...

With a blanket of snow covering the better part of DeKalb, the NIU softball team will do its best bird imitation by migrating south to Florida this weekend. Despite expected temperatures in the low 80s in Fort Myers, it won't be all sunbathing and swimming...

Freshman Joreigh Landers makes three when counting NIU softball players from Oregon. After a short 2,100-mile trip to DeKalb, she joins Kate Greenough and Taryn Hagemann to round out NIU's pitching staff. Landers was named most valuable player of her...

Baseball programs in the south and southwest part of the country refer to northern schools as snow birds. Our climate doesn't afford a team the opportunity to practice year-round outside. This year, however, the NIU baseball team has a distinct advantage...

It would be easy to say that NIU's new softball coach Lindsay Chouinard isn't the most experienced. After all, she graduated from DePaul in 2003. However, in that time the former pitcher has served as assistant coach at DePaul, where she holds numerous...

DeKALB | Just because they're freshmen doesn't mean NIU men's soccer coach Steve Simmons new recruiting class won't get a chance to be on the field this season. College Soccer News has ranked NIU's nine new soccer players as the 38th-best recruiting class...

DeKALB | NIU didn't need a national search to find it's new softball head coach - just a look to the closest city. On June 10, former DePaul assistant coach and player Lindsay Chouinard was named NIU's new softball coach. "Being given the oppurtunity...

DeKALB | Football games and parties aren't the only thing happening on Homecoming weekend. In celebration of NIU's 101st Homecoming, NIU athletics will induct two teams and four athletes into its Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 12. The inductees...

DeKALB | Before training camp had even started, one former Huskie athlete had shown what they could do. The Chicago Sky's season started on Sunday May 20th. Since then, the team has played 11 games. Former Huskie guard Stephanie Raymond has been on the...

DeKALB | After 13 seasons at the helm, NIU softball head coach Donna Martin resigned June 4. In total, Martin has been connected to NIU for 30 years. Before her time as head coach, Martin served as an assistant coach at NIU for 13 years. And before that,...

MIDLAND, Mich. | The NIU softball team had hoped for a longer stay in Michigan. But just three games later, the Huskies were on their way back to DeKalb. "We expected to advance further obviously," NIU head coach Donna Martin said. "It's not the way we...