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Golfers finish 4th, Hodge earns title

By Laura Higgins | April 15, 1992

The NIU women's golf team finished in a respectable fourth place in the Monday-Tuesday University of Nebraska 1992 Husker Women's Golf Invitational, but the spotlight fell upon NIU linkster Kim Hodge. The junior captured the first tournament victory of...

Jeray’s career nearing final round

By Laura Higgins | April 13, 1992

It appears only a superstar will be able to fill the shoes of senior NIU golfer Nicole Jeray. Jeray has all but a week left in her illustrious Huskie golfing career, but her name will be remembered for a long time. With the honors she has earned and the...

NIU golfers save best for last

April 6, 1992

Saving its best for last, the NIU women's golf team held on to third place amidst an impressive 16-school field in the Indiana University women's Invitational. The Huskies put together a 323 tally for their final 18 holes on Sunday in order to finish...

NIU’s sports teams hit the road again

April 3, 1992

Yet another weekend is here, which means some of NIU's teams are on the road again. ‘The men's tennis team carries a three-game winning streak to Valparaiso Saturday for its season openers in the Mid-Continent Conference. The Huskies (6-12) meet the...

Huskie women’s golf team finishes strong

March 30, 1992

If momentum counts, then it's no wonder coach Pam Tyska feels as if her NIU women's golf team picked up a victory by the end of Sunday's final round of the Western Kentucky University Lady Hilltopper Invitational. Granted the Huskies finished only fourth...

Huskie women golfers ready to tee off

By Laura Higgins | February 27, 1992

While temperatures still hover around the freezing mark in DeKalb, the Huskie women's golf team is in full swing, making use of the indoor facilities on the NIU campus. The Huskies have been weight conditioning since the end of their fall season and have...

$10,000 for ‘nutritional supplements’ questioned

By Steve Dennis | January 16, 1992

Senior Associate Athletic Director Cary Groth has designed a committee to define the use of $10,000 for an athletic training fund referred to as "nutritional supplements." At the December meeting of the Athletic Board yesterday, all of an NCAA broad-based...

Golfers stay optimistic despite frustrating end

By Laura Higgins | October 15, 1991

The Huskie women's golf team may have ended their season on a somewhat sour note, but still own the bragging rights of tallying its best fall record ever. With a grand total of 69 wins, six losses and one tie accumulated in six tournaments this season,...

Linksters complete fall with frustrating outing

October 14, 1991

Sixth-place in the 12-school University of Iowa Hawkeye Invitational? This definitely wasn't the kind of finish to the fall season that NIU women's golf coach Pam Tyska envisioned. Unfortunately, that's what the Huskies got after 54 holes of play in Saturday...

Women golfers seek 4th title; men to ISU

By Anthony Leva | October 4, 1991

Repeating a championship performance is never easy. Unless you're NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis. Pheanis will take his three-time Mid-Continent golf champions to the Illinois State University Redbird Invitational in Normal. The 54-hole competition...

Huskies second in Big Ten battle

By Laura Higgins | September 30, 1991

The Big Ten powerhouses proved not to be so mighty in this weekend's Lady Northern Intercollegiate golf championship. Nine of the schools in the conference were beaten by the NIU women's golf team in the tournament usually referred to as the Regional...

More athletic personnel get raises

By Wes Swietek | September 26, 1991

On the heels of the news that NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell received a $3,000 raise comes the discovery that seven other athletic department personnel have gotten salary increases. Leading the way is women's basketball head coach Jane Albright,...