Welcome to NIU, the home of the Huskies. We’re excited you will be with us and hope to see you at one of the many athletics events throughout the year. To be sure, exciting things are happening in Huskie athletics. Our football team, the 2004 Silicon...

Top 5 sports stories of the 2004-05 school year... as voted on by the Northern Star sports staff. With many big events throughout the school year, many notable stories were left off the list. After spending more than 20 years in the NIU athletics department,...

No more will NIU football coach Joe Novak have to use the Convocation Center as the prime recruiting venue. No more will NIU athletes have to weight train in Huskie Stadium’s junior college-type weight room. And no more will NIU be at the butt-end of...

After splitting a pair of matches against MAC opponents over the weekend, NIU’s Chrissy Svetlic was named MAC Player of the Week on Tuesday. Over the past week, Svetlic won all four of her singles and doubles matches. "She’s playing rather high in...

After the passage of Title IX 33 years ago, 59 percent of NIU athletes are male and 41 percent are female, official records show. "We take [gender equity] very seriously, and we very much believe in gender equity," Athletics Director Jim Phillips said....

Junior college transfer Cory Sims was announced as the NIU men’s basketball team’s most valuable player at Monday night’s end of season banquet. The 6-foot-1 guard was third on the team in scoring (9.6 ppg) and first in assists (4.75 apg) while...

After winning its second consecutive game Sunday, the NIU men’s basketball team received more good news when forward Todd Peterson was named the MAC West Player of the Week on Monday. For the week, the junior averaged 15 points and 5.5 rebounds a game...

After missing almost all of the 2004 season because of injury, NIU slugger Mike Santoro is back in a big way. The senior outfielder hit three home runs in the Huskies’ season opening series at Texas Tech and on Monday was named the MAC West Division...

When you are a former Olympian, owning a car rental franchise just doesn’t quench your competitive thirst. That’s what new NIU track and field coach Connie Teaberry found herself doing until a new opportunity came knocking. "I owned my Avis franchise,...

The season has yet to begin, but NIU slugger Scott Simon is already accumulating awards. The junior first baseman, who hit .374 and finished with a team-high 71 RBIs last season, was named by Baseball America to the preseason All-MAC squad Wednesday....

New NIU track and field coach Connie Teaberry has been there and done that when it comes to her sport. When NIU Athletics Director Jim Phillips announced Nov. 23 that the former Olympian Teaberry would be the new coach, he knew he was getting a coach...

Runners for NIU women’s cross country didn’t expect to be midseason without a coach. But after former cross country and track and field coach Shantel Twiggs took a head track position at the University of Nevada-Reno in mid-September, they decided...