A month removed from the new year, some NIU sports teams are kicking off their spring season while others are continuing business as usual. In January, teams like men’s and women’s basketball struggled while women’s tennis and wrestling shined. Here...

NIU women’s tennis (2-1) suffered its first defeat of the season in a 4-3 loss against the University of Missouri Tigers (2-0).  “We fought really hard today,” said NIU women’s tennis head coach Eric Burns. “It was a really good match for...

NIU women’s tennis junior Nataly Ninova has been named this week's Huskie of the Week after sweeping her singles matches over the weekend and being named the Mid-American Conference singles player of the week.  In the Huskies’ 7-0 win against...

NIU women’s tennis (2-0) swept both Lindenwood University (0-1) and Saint Louis University (0-1), taking respective 7-0, 4-0 victories Friday.  LINDENWOOD  In the first doubles match, junior Nataly Ninova and senior Maria Dzemeshkevich defeated...

NIU women’s tennis began its 2025 season with singles wins against the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University. The Huskies competed against three schools across three days, starting with the University of Colorado, at the Northwestern...

NIU women’s tennis senior Erika Dimitriev and junior Nataly Ninova earned Co-Huskie of the Week honors after winning the doubles match in flight 1 of the NIU Huskie Invitational, which wrapped up on Sunday.  The duo won flight 1 after conquering...

DeKALB – NIU women’s tennis’ No. 1 doubles team of junior Erika Dimitriev and sophomore Nataly Ninova secured the first MAC Doubles Team of the Week honor of the 2024 dual match season after routing a ranked opponent, the conference office announced...

DeKALB – NIU women’s tennis struggled during doubles competition en route to a 7-0 shutout at Nelson Tennis Center in the Chick Evans Field against conference foe Ball State University. BSU shut out NIU for the second time this season.  NIU got...