Despite being a member of the North Star Conference for only two years, the NIU women's sports program has established itself as a league powerhouse. By winning two NSC crowns and finishing second in two other sports, NIU claimed the 1988-89 NSC All-Sports...

NIU's women's tennis team decided to show off a bit before Saturday's Parent's Weekend crowd and did so in a big way. The Huskies soundly defeated both Bradley University (7-2) and Saint Mary's College of Indiana (8-1) to improve the season mark to 15-7....

Both NIU tennis teams will take one more for the road this weekend. The men's squad heads to Northwestern Sunday for its 1 p.m. match. The women cruise through Michigan for an 11 a.m. match against Eastern Michigan Saturday and a 10 a.m. match against...

If landing a promotion was Cary Groth's New Year's resolution, it sure didn't take her long to reach her goal. On Jan. 6, NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell announced that Groth had been promoted to an associate athletic director. Groth 32, had been...

American sport consists of the Big Three—football, basketball and baseball. However, NIU athletics seems to be lost in the shuffle. The Huskies pride themselves on being an up-and-coming program. Great strides are being made by NIU to become recognized...

Although there were no chalk marks in the "W" column for the Huskies during the Championship rounds of the NIU Women's Tennis Invitational, NIU proved to be the most consistent team in the individual tourney. The Huskie netters advanced to four of the...

The NIU men's golf team will swing into action this weekend coming off an eighth-place finish in the University of Minnesota Invitational last weekend. The Huskies will travel to the University of Northern Iowa to participate in the Northern Iowa Fall...

NIU men's tennis coach Carl Neufeld, and women's coach Patty Groth both predict a successful season for Huskie tennis. The men's team returns this year led by junior Steve Wiere. As a freshman, Wiere qualified for the NCAA tournament and filled the number...

NIU's Associate Athletic Director Susie Pembroke-Jones left the DeKalb area for a position as assistant director of athletics at George Washington University. As of Wednesday, the 39-year-old began her duties by watching over nine sports, which include...

Spring is just over a week old, but the NIU women's tennis team is well into its spring season. This weekend the team will travel to Oxford, Ohio, with its 5-9 record to do battle with state rival ISU Saturday at 2 p.m. and the Redskins of Miami at 9...

Amy Andersen proved she deserved to be moved into the NIU women's tennis team's line-up this spring, as she defeated her Illinois opponent 7-5, 6-3 at Thursday's dual meet in Champaign. But Andersen's win couldn't carry the weight of the other eight sedes...

The NIU athletic department has "indicated some interest" in becoming affiliated with Association of Mid-Continent Universities conference, league commissioner F.L. Ferzacca said Tuesday. Ferzacca said he spoke with NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell...