James Hughes may be out of the Huskies lineup, but he still has found praise within the MAC. Tuesday Hughes won the MAC Defensive Player of the Year award. This marked the first time in NIU history a Huskie won the honor, which is decided by MAC head...

Anthony Maestranzi and Todd Peterson have a chance to break the NIU record for games played in a career. The seniors have yet to miss a game in four years and have played in 112 consecutive games. If both play the rest of the games this season and the...

After a 19-day layoff, the NIU baseball team will take the field Feb. 24 through 26 at the Evansville Tournament. NIU is set to play Eastern Illinois, Evansville and Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the three-day tournament. The Huskies are currently 0-3 on the...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Lindsay Davenport got a tough workout from Karolina Sprem in the second round of the Australian Open before advancing Wednesday with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory. After trading breaks in the third and fourth games, the first set went...

The NIU cross country team owns the Benedictine Invitational. For the fourth consecutive year, head coach Connie Teaberry’s squad finished first in team competition. A herd of NIU runners dotted the Top 10 and Christina Nieto led the way with a third-place...

It’s sweet to repeat for the NIU women’s golf team. Solid performances from the sister act of Jackie and Lisa Bailey led NIU to a repeat championship at the Western Illinois Invite. Lisa’s 155 equaled the best total score in the two-round tournament,...

Welcome to NIU, the home of the Huskies. We’re excited you will be with us and hope to see you at one of the many athletics events throughout the year. To be sure, exciting things are happening in Huskie athletics. Our football team, the 2004 Silicon...

Top 5 sports stories of the 2004-2005 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. Lobdell spikes kills record: Senior outside hitter Tera...

On match point against Marshall’s Ashley Kroh at No. 1 singles, Cassie Drake of the NIU women’s tennis team broke a string. As fate would have it, it would be the final point of her collegiate tennis career. "Yeah, it was weird," Drake said. "I thought...

The NIU women’s tennis team continued its mastery over Akron to advance to the quarterfinals of the MAC championship against defending champion Marshall. The No. 7 seed Huskies (8-9) completed a 5-0 sweep of No. 10 seed Akron (6-19) in the first day...

With both of his teams traveling to this weekend’s MAC championships, NIU tennis coach Pontus Hiort is a busy man. The second-year head coach will simultaneously guide the men’s team at Western Michigan in Kalamazoo, Mich. and the women’s team at...

In its final regular season matches of the year, the NIU men's tennis team split the weekend as senior Willy Gali extended his winning streak to 20 matches. The Huskies (12-9 overall, 2-3 MAC) dropped a 5-2 decision Saturday at Ball State (18-8, 5-0)...