Women’s cross country had its worst showing of the season, finishing 27 of 28 at the Roy Griak Invitational onSaturday.The Huskies traveled to Falcon Heights, Minn., for their first 6K of 2013.NIU beat out last-place Creighton University in the final...
DeKalb | Cross country takes its first trip out of state as the Huskies travel to Minneapolis for the Roy Griak Invitational this weekend.The meet will mark NIU’s first 6K race of the season. Last time the Huskies finished in fourth place, having four...
Headlined by season-best times from most of the team, the women’s cross country team finished the Illinois State Invitational meet in fourth place out of six teams.NIU completed the race finishing higher in the standings than Eastern Illinois and Northern...
DeKalb | With the heat bearing down on the cross country team, it won its first meet of the season.The Huskies defeated Div. III North Central College in a dual meet at the NIU North 40.Led by redshirt freshman Leah Raffety, who took the individual meet...
Cross country will have a chance to begin the 2013 season at home as it hosts the NIU Open.The Huskies opened last season with a victory in Palos Heights, which marked the first time in program history they grabbed an overall meet title.This season the...
Athletics prides itself not only on its success on the field, but its success in the classroom, and the cross country team exemplifies that success.In June, the NCAA ranked the cross country team’s academic progress rate among the top 10 percent of...
The women’s cross-country team will have a resurgence of youth in 2013.Head coach Gregg Hipp, who is entering his third season, is liking what he is seeing from the team.“The ladies look pretty good, and look very fit. You can tell they took advantage...
NIU cross country finished its season Friday at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships with a 27th place team finish. In the final team standings, the Huskies topped in-state foes DePaul and SIU-Edwardsville. Coach Greg Hipp said that illness changed...
For senior Courtney Oldenburg, breaking records comes naturally. Oldenburg has been breaking records in cross country since her days in high school at West Salem High School in West Salem, Wisc. She holds records in the 4x400 meter relay, 4x800 meter...
Senior Courtney Oldenburg broke yet another NIU record, this time in the 6K, as NIU cross country finished in 14th place at the Bradley Classic in Peoria, Ill. Including Oldenburg, the Huskies had three runners place in the top 60 in a field that included...
With the addition of four freshmen to NIU cross country, the team has become more competitive and found more success than in previous seasons. Ali Olson, Leah Raffety, Hannah Savage and Taylor Vinhal are those freshmen, and they have immediately made...
Most runners on NIU cross country are recruited from states in the Midwest. Junior Claire McAuley and sophomore Juliane Totzke are two exceptions. McAuley, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, set club records in the 300-meter and 1500-meter her sophomore year...
