DeKALB | Of the nine women’s sports teams at NIU, five of them have a male head coach, six have at least one male assistant coach and four have at least one male volunteer coach.There are nine male assistant coaches and four volunteer assistant coaches...
Track and field produced four top-five finishes and eight top-10 finishes over the weekend at the 121st Penn Relays.Senior Latesha Bigby won the heptathlon with an NIU school record and personal best mark of 5,146 points scored. Freshman Kelsey Hildreth...
Latesha Bigby, track and field senior sprinter/jumper, captured the heptathlon title at the 121st Penn Relays on Wednesday in Philadelphia.Bigby broke her own school record in the event, totaling 5,146 points across the seven events in the heptathlon...
Four track and field student-athletes were named to the Academic All-MAC Team for the indoor season, the conference announced Friday.Seniors Julianne Cronin and Alexandra Schad and sophomores Logan Tillmon and Alexandria Isom were recognized for their...
Track and field placed nine competitors in the top 10 of several events Saturday at the Michael Johnson Classic in Waco, Texas.The Huskies went up against Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, TCU, Tulsa and Fresno State, among others.Highlighting the NIU...
Track and field will participate in its first one-day competition of the outdoor season this weekend.The Huskies will partake in the Michael Johnson Classic, which begins at 11 a.m. Saturday at Baylor's Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium in Waco, Texas.The...
Freshman jumper Chennel Palmer didn’t know exactly what she had signed up for when she joined track and field 100 or so days ago.Palmer came to the United States from Jamaica in January to attend NIU. While Palmer said the competition level is higher,...
Senior Latesha Bigby was named MAC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week for the first time in her career, the conference announced Tuesday.Bigby is coming off a weekend in which she won the heptathlon with a school record 5,110 points at the Chicagoland...
Track and field won the Chicagoland Outdoor Championship for the second time in four years this weekend.The Huskies took first place out of 22 teams at the meet, which was hosted by the College of DuPage from Friday to Saturday afternoon in Glen Ellyn....
Track and field will compete in the Chicagoland Outdoor Championships this weekend for its second-straight meet in Illinois.The meet begins noon Friday and continues 9 a.m. Saturday.Sophomore Claudette Day, senior Latesha Bigby and sophomore Logan Tillmon...
Track and field accrued 62.25 points as it finished in sixth place out of 12 teams over the weekend at the EIU Big Blue Classic in Charleston.The Huskies finished fourth out of eight Illinois teams that participated. NIU was the lone MAC school in the...
