As expected, Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell announced his plan to discontinue NIU's field hockey program and replace it with women's soccer at yesterday's Athletic Board meeting. Members of the field hockey team, including coach Laurie Bell, current...

The NIU Athletic Board meets today to hear the recommendation of Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell to cut the field hockey program. 0'Dell is expected to ask at the 1 p.m. meeting at the Holmes Student Center for the field hockey program's replacement with...

The future of NIU's field hockey program was officially put on the line yesterday. NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell presented his recommendation to cut the program to the Executive Committee of NIU's Athletic Board. "The recommendation is that the...

Judging by the numbers, women's field hockey has been a sport on the decline since the mid- 1980s. Because of the declining number of schools offering field hockey, the Illinois High School Association dropped it as a sanctioned sport, leaving only 12...

NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell met with members of the field hockey program yesterday to inform them that he is recommending the program be dropped. "We will meet with the Executive Committee of the Athletic Board to make a recommendation to them...

When NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright-Dieterle picked two new assistant coaches, she found talent from both the playing and coaching worlds. Sue Semrau and Jonelle Polk were Albright-Dieterle's choices to fill a pair of open slots because of...

Several issues were discussed at Wednesday's NIU athletic board meeting, but perhaps the highlight was the discussion of NIU's replacement of former head football coach Jerry Pettibone. Pettibone officially announced his departure from NIU and his acceptance...

Athletes at NIU generally agree with the locker room policy at Huskie sporting events and even took it a step further. Controversy about the whole situation arises with the fact that the NIU policy allows male or female reporters to enter a men's locker...

Parents' Weekend 1990: food, folks, fun and football, not necessarily in that order. Much of the focus of this week's festivities is on Saturday's NIU football game against the dreaded Murray State Racers. Murray State, as if you don't know, is in Kentucky...

NIU sports programs have been trying to become more competitive on the national scene and have gone overseas to bring in the talent that is needed to compete at such a level. The NIU men's tennis program is led by two strong Swedish players and some tennis...

If Huskie Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell were a comedian, his sense of timing wouldn't get him a ticket out of First City, let alone a gig at Second City. There are no good times to announce the impending elimination of a sport, but on the scale of better...

Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell, using words like "deplorable," "embarrassment" and "anitquated" to describe the condition of Huskie Stadium, said Friday NIU is considering a renovation of the 24-year-old structure. The university recently invited four...