If only the NIU volleyball team could pack away some of its radiating confidence and bring it back out at the end of the season, the Huskies would have a good shot at the North Star Conference crown. The spikers, under coaching of new boss Pete Waite...

For a two-week period, pre-season practices for the NIU volleyball team were equated to overnight cramming for final exams. Since Aug. 15th, new head coach Pete Waite and new assistant coach Lori Sowatsky worked from 8 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., six days a...

Top-caliber athletes dot the lineups of several NIU teams. Here are just a few to look for this season. Cathy Holmes is a strong catalyst for the NIU volleyball team. The senior helped lead her squad last season to a 19-16 overall finish and a second-place...

Amongst the many faces at NIU, a new look can be found within the athletic department this fall. While Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell has almost completed his first year at NIU, he is beginning to make some adjustments in the crowd. One new face is that...

Hoosier basketball in Illinois—can it work? If you ask Dianna Wingis, then the answer is yes. The Indiana native left her home in Hammond and entered a new world at NIU last fall as a member of the women's basketball team. Wingis came to the campus...

This is the last of a three-part series profiling new NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell. This segment focuses on the merger between men's and women's athletics. When the external and internal review comittees filed their reports on the NIU athletic...

NIU volleyball coach Herb Summers will not return for the fall season after being told last Monday that his contract will not be renewed. Summers, who had been at NIU for six seasons, confirmed his departure Sunday but would not comment further on the...

At the beginning of an athletic season, a squad usually sets goals it hopes to accomplish by the end of the season. NIU's volleyball team was one such squad, and although it did not meet all of its expectations, the overall feeling by both coach and players...

The North Star Conference will survive despite the loss of Notre Dame and Dayton next year. That is the consensus of NIU Women's Athletic Director Susie Pembroke-Jones, volleyball coach Herb Summers and women's basketball coach Jane Albright. While all...

And then there was one. The North Star Conference will lose two more of its charter members following this spring's softball championships when Dayton and Notre Dame leave for the Midwestern Cities Conference next year. DePaul is the only original NSC...

Notre Dame's volleyball squad defended its North Star Conference title Sunday, defeating NIU in the finals of the NSC Tournament 15-7, 10-15, 15-8, 15-6 at DePaul's Alumni Gym. The Huskies finished second in the tournament with their only weekend loss...

While the North Star Conference volleyball champions will be decided this weekend at the NSC tournament Saturday and Sunday at DePaul, it might be a vendetta for NIU. Notre Dame is the defending NSC winner. The Fighting Irish have won 14 matches in a...