Top 5 sports stories of the 2004-05 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. When seven-year NIU women’s basketball coach Carol Hammerle...

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...

After splitting a pair of matches against MAC opponents over the weekend, NIU’s Chrissy Svetlic was named MAC Player of the Week on Tuesday. Over the past week, Svetlic won all four of her singles and doubles matches. "She’s playing rather high in...

Next season the NIU women’s basketball team will have an all-MAC guard and forward on its bench. The only catch is they’ll be coaching. But that’s not to say it’s a bad thing. The Huskies are hoping to return to the glory days with the additions...

E.C. Hill played basketball at NIU from 1991-94, yet she is the newest member of the NIU women’s basketball family. Hill returns to her alma mater as an assistant to new coach Carol Owens, and will try to help turn around a program that finished 7-21...

A typical student’s mentality can be defined very simply. After Summer Break, most students are enthralled for the fall semester to begin and can’t wait to catch up on old times with friends until Christmas break comes and everyone wants a little...

Since her hiring March 15, new NIU women’s basketball coach Carol Owens has been busy rebuilding the program. Owens, 37, has begun to put together a new coaching staff and will get a feel for her new team this week when individual workouts begin. Since...

For the first time since inception in 1993, the NIU women’s soccer team is without a head coach. The only coach in the team’s history, Frank Horvat, announced his resignation Monday, ending his 12-year tenure effective immediately. "It’s time for...

Throughout her tumultuous final season, former NIU women’s basketball coach Carol Hammerle started to wear down both physically and mentally. For a coach that put together 21 consecutive winning seasons at Wisconsin-Green Bay, losing started to become...

Junior college transfer Cory Sims was announced as the NIU men’s basketball team’s most valuable player at Monday night’s end of season banquet. The 6-foot-1 guard was third on the team in scoring (9.6 ppg) and first in assists (4.75 apg) while...

When former NIU women’s basketball standout Carol Owens was a sophomore, she told then-coach Jane Albright that once she graduated, she would return to help her coach as a graduate assistant. But on March 15, the 31-year old coach did one better, returning...

NIU woman’s basketball recruit Kacia Gillette ended her Rockton Hononegah High School career Feb. 28 in a super sectional match at the Convocation Center. The 6-foot-1 forward said she is staying committed to NIU, but will play under a new coach as...