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...

As the volleyball season winds down for NIU, the squad is basically working on refining its skills for the Saturday match against the Georgia Bulldogs at Athens, Ga. "This is the time of the year when the players don't want to spend as much time in the...

NIU's volleyball team fell prey to another Big Ten volleyball team, losing to Northwestern 15-6, 15-3, 15-12 Tuesday night in Evanston. The wildcats (22-6) are the fifth Big Ten team to defeat the Huskies this season. NIU had also lost to Michigan, Wisconsin,...

NIU's volleyball team has one more chance to defeat a Big Ten team this season. The Huskies head to Evanston, Ill. tonight for a 7:30 p.m. contest against the Northwestern Wildcats. The NIU squad has not had much luck with Big Ten teams this year. The...