If you ever get a chance to run into Brian Cremascoli or Kirstine Jensen, they are likely to be laughing about something. Whether it’s about Coach Ray Gooden’s personal towel or reminiscing about their old collegiate practice days, you’re sure to...

It had been 10 years since the NIU volleyball team lost its season opener. But with the Huskies trailing Illinois-Chicago two games to none on the road Friday night, the streak appeared to be in peril. Entering the third and possibly deciding game, Kate...

Most NIU students’ education ends for the week sometime on Friday. For the NIU volleyball team, its education continued through Friday and into Saturday night in its first two games of the season. Five of the team’s 14 players played their first collegiate...

1995: The year when Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young won his first Super Bowl with the 49ers. The year O.J. Simpson captured the nation with his murder trial. The year when Michael Jordan returned to the Bulls after his baseball experiment. It also...

After a gut-wrenching five-game loss at rival Ball State in the 2004 MAC tournament, NIU outside hitter Tera Lobdell walked off the volleyball court for the final time. With her departure, setter Marie Zidek knew the team was losing its greatest offensive...

You may not recognize all the faces on Victor E. Court at Saturday’s game against Northern Iowa, because NIU has added five freshmen to its 14-person volleyball roster. Jenny Dziubla, Irene Johnson, Joelle Beisel, Maria Benitez and Katie Walsh make...

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...

Whether you’re piling your life into the back of a minivan and making the move to NIU for the first time, or coming back to good old, familiar DeKalb, there has never been a better time to jump on the Huskie sports fan bandwagon than this fall. And...

Results of a recent American Football Coaches Association national survey placed NIU among 25 Division I-A programs to graduate 70 percent or more of their football players between 1999-2004. Duke and Northwestern topped the list with 100-percent graduation...

Top 5 sports stories of the 2004-2005 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. Lobdell spikes kills record: Senior outside hitter Tera...

With summer a hop, skip and a jump away, students are anxiously awaiting its arrival. Only one task remains in front of them: finals. With this on their mind, it’s a good time to evaluate all the Huskies teams as one group. Although each sport presents...

Junior Kate McCullagh will leave the NIU volleyball team in late June. The 6-foot middle blocker was chosen to represent the United States in the Sibillini Tournament held in Comunanza, Italy from June 22-July 3. "Ray [Gooden, NIU coach] contacted me...