A campus activities support group will co-sponsor a co-ed mud volleyball tournament to which the DeKalb Fire Department will donate 1,000 gallons of water. Chris Lussow, president of the student group OPRA, said this will be the fifth year of the tournament,...

The Kansas State Wildcats and the Mississippi Lady Rebels will invade DeKalb to participate in the NIU Triangular volleyball tournament this weekend. And NIU head volleyball coach Pete Waite put his Huskies through a rigorous four-hour practice Thursday...

If only the NIU volleyball team could pack away some of its radiating confidence and bring it back out at the end of the season, the Huskies would have a good shot at the North Star Conference crown. The spikers, under coaching of new boss Pete Waite...

For a two-week period, pre-season practices for the NIU volleyball team were equated to overnight cramming for final exams. Since Aug. 15th, new head coach Pete Waite and new assistant coach Lori Sowatsky worked from 8 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., six days a...

Top-caliber athletes dot the lineups of several NIU teams. Here are just a few to look for this season. Cathy Holmes is a strong catalyst for the NIU volleyball team. The senior helped lead her squad last season to a 19-16 overall finish and a second-place...

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...