With a 13-match winning streak heading into the MAC Tournament at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, NIU volleyball hopes to show the conference it deserves to be the No. 1 seed. After coming just short last season by losing the championship match to Ohio...
The sky is the limit for NIU volleyball. Thursday evening, the Mid-American Conference announced its regular season awards with five Huskies honored. Sophomore outside hitter Lauren Wicinski was named MAC Player of the Year for the second year in a row,...
NIU volleyball player MacKenzie Roddy is no stranger to success on the court.First with tennis, then volleyball, Roddy has always been a major threat in both sports. Roddy felt quitting tennis to join volleyball was the right decision for herself. After...
Lauren Wicinski has made history this year in more ways than one. NIU’s outside hitter has helped her team post a record of 15-5 overall and 4-2 in MAC play. “My motivation is to achieve our goal of winning the MAC,” Wicinski said. On the way to...
DeKALB | Intramural sports at NIU allow all students to partake in everyday sports as well as some that people may never have heard of."Our goal is to offer diverse activities/sports to get everyone involved, not just the athletes from high school," said...
NIU women's volleyball traveled to the cheesiest place on Earth Tuesday night, facing the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where the Huskies have not lost since 1989. The Huskies (3-2) took down the Phoenix (1-3), sweeping them 25-19, 25-20 and 25-22....
After an off-season filled with fervor and anticipation, NIU women's volleyball is set to host the NIU Invitational to kick off its season. The Huskies have won six straight matches in the invite after sweeping the event last year. NIU's last loss in...
While aspiring to be "the freshman that doesn't make the mistakes," Lauren Wicinski helped the NIU volleyball team get to the MAC Championship match and garnered herself the Northern Star's No. 2 Huskie of the Year. The Geneva, Ill. native came to NIU...
Not knowing whether she was eligible to play volleyball or even if she was accepted to a university, Amber Walker packed up all her belongings and left home. Having to ferry her loaded truck from Juneau, Alaska to Seattle, Wash., she arrived in the lower...
For a moment, it looked like Maddie Hughes was still on the NIU volleyball team. Walking into the Campus Recreation Center for the first spring tournament on March 26, the No. 9 grey libero jersey was out on the court making digs. But it was not Hughes...
DeKALB |During NIU volleyball’s Salvani Spring Play Date on March 26 at the Campus Recreation Center, I observed a type of camaraderie for the first time while at Northern: alumni were trash talking the current Huskies. It was not so much the trash...
Hugs and smiles were abundant between NIU volleyball players and the alumni team on Saturday at the Campus Recreation Center. But once the two groups battled on the court it was all business, at least most of the time.In the Salvani Spring Play Date,...
