Two days after losing to MAC-leading Ohio, the NIU women’s volleyball team looks to improve its conference seeding this weekend with the MAC tournament 11 days away. NIU (9-18 overall, 4-8 MAC) begins weekend play at 7 p.m. today versus Central Michigan...

Two days after losing to MAC-leading Ohio, the NIU women’s volleyball team looks to improve its conference seeding this weekend with the MAC tournament 11 days away. NIU (9-18 overall, 4-8 MAC) begins weekend play at 7 p.m. today versus Central Michigan...

Ohio University kept its flawless conference record intact Wednesday at Victor E. Court by sweeping NIU in three games: 30-25, 30-24, 30-16. With three attackers in double digits, the team played on offense for Ohio (21-2 overall, 13-0 MAC), proving too...

Going into Wednesday’s match against Ohio, the NIU volleyball team knew it was facing the most efficient offense in the conference. “We knew they were going to attack from all over the place,” NIU coach Ray Gooden said. “They’re a physical team...

Part 1 of a two-part series In 51 chances over the past three seasons, NIU intercollegiate sports teams have won only one Mid-American Conference team title. During those three years, 11 of NIU’s 17 athletic teams averaged below a .500 record despite...

Eighty-one. In the final five matches of the season, NIU volleyball’s Tera Lobdell needs that many kills to become the all-time leader in the MAC. Facing Ohio at 7 p.m. today at Victor E. Court, Lobdell ranks second only to Ball State’s Megan Hammons,...

After four straight road losses, the NIU volleyball team broke through with 19 team blocks and a 3-1 victory over Toledo in its final regular season road contest. “We blocked the ball really well,” NIU coach Ray Gooden said. “Everyone on this team...

With its last road match of the season today at Toledo, the NIU volleyball team looks forward to coming back home to finish the season. “It will definitely be nice to be home after this match,” junior setter Marie Zidek said, “but every road conference...

A stalled offense and an injury to Megan Markowski sent the NIU volleyball team to its third straight loss Tuesday at Illinois State. The Huskies (8-17) dropped the non-conference match 3-1 to the Redbirds (16-6). Senior middle blocker Markowski did not...

With only seven matches left in the season, the NIU volleyball team is still trying to figure out who they are. And with the team heading to Normal to take on rival Illinois State at 7 p.m. today, NIU must try and figure it out fast. “I don’t know...

NIU’s Tera Lobdell broke her own single-season kills record, but the volleyball team couldn’t manage to win a single game in either of its matches this weekend. Hoping to build on their win over Eastern Michigan on Wednesday, the Huskies (8-16 overall,...

The NIU volleyball team gets no break this weekend after its win Wednesday over Eastern Michigan, the top-ranked team in the MAC. With a four-game slide over and the win against EMU under their belts, the Huskies (8-14 overall, 3-5 MAC) go into this weekend...