It's wait until next year for the women to get their fair shake in intercollegiate athletics. With gender equity promised to be the talk of the 1994 NCAA Convention, this year's gathering of university presidents and athletic directors didn't provide...

Leave it to the general to spark her troops. After a first half in which NIU's women's basketball team turned the ball over 12 times, shot just 41 percent (14-34) from the field and found itself in a 41-41 draw, Jane Albright-Dieterle may have given her...

Generally, "stretch run" refers to that season-ending point of the schedule where teams lay it on the line in their quest for a championship. For the NIU women's basketball team, the "run" comes a little sooner, as the Huskies begin a "stretch" tonight...

Shades of 1989-90? Based on what's happened in the first quarter of this year's schedule, the NIU women's basketball team is beginning to offer some semblance of that magical season in which the Huskies finished 26-5 and led the nation in scoring. Entering...

MILWAUKEE—While the rest of us were traveling home for Thanksgiving last Wednesday, NIU's women's basketball was hard at work as the Huskies posted a 77-51 exhibition win over Snitz Manufacturing, an AAU team, at Wisconsin Lutheran College. "I felt...

NIU's women's basketball team will be praying for more rebounds at the Thanksgiving table because Angela Lockett, last year's rebounding queen, is officially out for the season following reconstructive surgery on her left knee. Lockett, who tore her anterior...

Let ‘em run. Wednesday night, NIU's women's basketball team was running a week's worth of ‘suicides.' But it had nothing to do with an uneventful practice. Rather, the Huskies were treated to a dose of the go-at-your-own-risk international game, which...

It was the Cindy Conner show in the first half. Then it was the E.C. Hill show in the second half with numerous guest appearances sprinkled in as the NIU women's basketball team opened the 1992-93 season with an 88-72 victory over Slovan Bratislava of...

Even though tonight's game against Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia is only an exhibition, the NIU women's basketball team will still be going all out. "We'll definitely be looking to win," NIU women's head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle said. Albright-Dieterle...

Schwankl, Stallworth, Lau and Alexander. These names are not as common as Hill, Conner, Wingis and Burkholder. Yet someday in the future they will be the backbone of NIU's rapidly rising women's basketball program. This year's group of newcomers—three...

Twas the season of the pup. One year later, those pups have grown up and are ready to start barking at and biting anyone that steps in their path. As the NIU women's basketball motto implies, this team is definitely "a breed apart" from the group that...

For three years they have done the little things that make life a little easier for both NIU head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle and the women's basketball team. Whether it's getting a water bottle or a towel, being an extra body in practice to help with...