The NIU women's basketball team's recent string of three straight 20-win seasons can be attributed to great talent and great performances by that talent. Two of the players who made the greatest impact were Tammy Hinchee and Carol Owens both of whom culminated...

Although school was out, the business of sports at NIU continued. Among the most noteworthy developments include: NIU has tabbed Jeanne Fleck to become the new head women's swimming coach. Fleck comes to DeKalb after serving as an assistant men's and...

NIU's women's basketball guard Yconda "E.C." Hill, who sat out the 1990-91 season due to NCAA Proposition 48, was one of 12 chosen to play at the 1991 Olympic festival July 13-16 in Los Angeles, Calif. She will be on the North Team at the four-squad tourney....

The NIU women's basketball team is holding its banquet Sunday April 28 at 2 p.m. in the Chick Evans Field House, and the general public is invited to attend the festivities. Reservations for the banquet must be made by April 22 and can be done by calling...

Although no official word is expected until next week, Jane Albright has planted a necessary seed if the NIU women's basketball team intends on a third-straight postseason appearance in 1992. The Northern Star has learned that Belvidere High School standout...

NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright is also being considered for another job. The University of Arizona has contacted NIU athletic director Gerald O'Dell about the seven-year NIU coach succeeding June Olkowski, who resigned after a four-year stint....

When the career light turns green for the four NIU women's basketball seniors in May, expect them to cruise right into a sports-oriented future. Denise Dove, Lisa Foss, Denise Lipnisky and Toby Meeks all envision some sort of sports-related occupation...

Lisa Foss isn't the only member of the NIU women's basketball team to try out for the Olympic team. NIU's assistant coach Kamie Ethridge, former University of Texas standout, tried out and competed on the 1988 Olympic gold-medal winning women's basketball...

March, 1991 will certainly become a permanent fixture in the mind of NIU women's basketball guard Lisa Foss. Just 18 days after Foss was named the Player of the Year in the North Star Conference and one day after the senior collected All-NWIT honors,...

Inner unrest began to set in among the NIU women's basketball team, and it started to show during last weekend's NWIT. After compiling a 23-5 ledger throughout the majority of the season, NIU dropped three-of-four games before the NWIT even started. Given...

AMARILLO, Texas—NIU wasn't the only higher-seeded team to fall at the 23rd annual NWIT at the Amarillo Civic Center. In one of the wackiest endings in NWIT history, the No. 1 seed, Notre Dame went 0-3 to finish last, while the eighth-seeded "cinderella...

AMARILLO, Texas—With an 84-82 squeaker over Notre Dame Saturday, the NIU women's basketball team not only scored a "w" in the win column but captured a season-ending moral triumph. Normally a team wouldn't be all that content with a seventh-out-of-eight...