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Young football fans compete to meet Huskie team players

Young football fans compete to meet Huskie team players

By Hany Abdel | November 13, 2013

Local schools have been battling it out to show off their Huskie pride during football season.As part of NIU’s goal to form a communiversity with DeKalb, Athletics has come up with a way to involve the local school district: a NIU pride competition....

Nine NIU football players recieve academic honors

Nine NIU football players recieve academic honors

By Tony Osborne | January 17, 2012

With MAC Championship and GoDaddy.com Bowl victories already under their belt, nine NIU football players added more to their resume by receiving All-MAC Academic honors. "Obviously to be the conference champs on the field and then to represent the MAC...

Adam Kiel does volunteer work earlier this month in New Orleans.

Kiel makes a big impact on and off the field

By Jimmy Johnson | January 25, 2011

Adam Kiel is a mountain of a man. But even the 6'5", 308-pound NIU offensive lineman could not do all of the pushing required in helping the area of New Orleans still recovering from Hurricane Katrina more than five years ago. The redshirt reserve offensive...

Huskie Briefs: Sept. 22

By Andrew Singer | September 21, 2010

Locals have chance to play with women's golf On Oct. 3 at the Whisper Creek Golf Course the NIU women's golf team will host the Northern Illinois Women's Golf Co-Am. Each group of golfers will be paired with a current member of the Huskies. Participants...