Making strides has been the main goal for the Huskie volleyball team in the beginning, but now is the time to win. The NIU team will take its 1-5 record into Peoria, Ill., to face the 4-11 Bradley Braves Tuesday for a 7 p.m. match. The series between...

Progress is what the volleyball team was striving for, and got, in their loss to a tough Wisconsin-Madison team. The Huskies were defeated in a 15-8, 15-9, 15-6 match to the Badgers, who NIU coach Pete Waite said should finish in the top three of the...

A 1-4 record in the infancy of the fall season doesn't sit well with NIU volleyball coach Pete Waite. And things will not get any easier for the Huskies as they head out to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday for a 6:30 p.m. match. Wisconsin is...

The NIU volleyball team came home with a 3-3-1 showing following a weekend trip to California. In the Western Invitational Tournament, the Huskies came back after a rough 1-1-1 beginning Friday to go 2-2 on Saturday. NIU lost their tourney opener to Sacramento...

The results of NIU's three-year promotions package with Coors Light can now be seen in store windows and on counters throughout DeKalb. NIU's new Coors Light football poster, the first of several promotional items produced in conjuction with the beer...

Before NIU and Akron can win their first Association of Mid-Continent Universities title, they will have to battle a Bear. The Bears of Southwest Missouri State have become the AMCU's conference power, winning the league's all-sport trophy the past three...

Despite being a member of the North Star Conference for only two years, the NIU women's sports program has established itself as a league powerhouse. By winning two NSC crowns and finishing second in two other sports, NIU claimed the 1988-89 NSC All-Sports...

"We blew the doors off both of them, to be blunt," volleyball club president Rob Uhwat said about his team's victories last weekend. NIU defeated Quincy College 15-1, 15-5, 15-9 and Illinois 15-2, 15-5, 15-4 during Saturday's triangular match at Illinois....

NIU's baseball club will visit North Central College on Thursday for their first game of the spring. The team was originally scheduled to play games in Florida over spring break but funds could not be raised in time. "I don't know if we'll play with the...

In the hopes of naming a new men's basketball coach by May 22, the NIU Athletic Department is implementing a national search to fill the position. Associate Athletic Director Cary Groth said Monday a 12-member search committee is in the process of being...

Northern Illinois University is the best kept secret in the Midwest. If that sounds familiar it's probably because every NIU coach and athletic department administrator has said that at one time or another. Now we know why. The Huskies are getting virtually...