NIU volleyball has a new look, and Tuesday night, it looked promising. The Huskies (2-2) handled Green Bay (1-3) in a fast-paced four-setter, 25-13, 22-25, 25-12, 25-15. “We have been trying to work to do some things and we keep improving a little bit...
Matt Hopkinson Staff Writer DeKalb | Tuesday night at Victor E. Court, NIU women’s volleyball will play host to a name that makes most people from Illinois cringe: the Green Bay Phoenix. While not quite as skin-crawling as their NFL counterpart, the...
DeKalb | While the weekend’s record may not reflect the amount of work put into the NIU invitational tournament, the length of the games will. NIU women’s volleyball (1-2) opened its regular season at home, hosting North Dakota State (0-3), New Mexico...
There is something special about a new semester at NIU. First, my favorite: seeing actual people in DeKalb. And second: three sport teams with national level potential. Yes, amazingly enough, outside of football, two NIU teams have amassed the players...
NIU volleyball’s 2011 season was a definite improvement from its prior season. Huskies coach Ray Gooden was named MAC Coach of the Year for the first time in his 10-year tenure, while his team won the MAC regular season title for the first time since...
Following its best season in recent memory, NIU volleyball’s Lauren Wicinski, along with three other Huskies, decided to file for a release in hopes of transferring to another school. Despite a combined 55-15 overall record in her two seasons at NIU,...
After back-to-back MAC Player of the Year honors and leading NIU volleyball to historic seasons, Lauren Wicinski tackled her next task over the weekend: The U.S. Women's National Team.Wicinski spent the weekend in Colorado Springs, Colo. trying out for...
NIU volleyball's season came to an end Friday with a loss to Miami (Fla.) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies (28-7, 14-2 MAC) lost in four up-and-down sets to the No. 25 Hurricanes (26-4, 16-4 ACC), 25-17, 21-25, 25-12 and 26-24. "We...
With its entire 2011 campaign on the line, NIU volleyball will face No. 25 Miami (Fla.) in tonight's opening round match of the NCAA Tournament.NIU (28-6, 14-2 MAC) enters the match winning 15 of its last 16 matches, while Miami (25-4, 26-4 ACC) has won...
The past four seasons for NIU volleyball have been some of the most promising in recent memory, and the team adds more to the mix as each season passes.One of the only constants for the program during that span has been senior outside hitter Allison McGlaughlin.The...
At the end of last season, NIU volleyball had its heart broken.After their tremendous run through the regular season, the Huskies watched their chance at an NCAA Tournament bid slip away as they lost in the MAC Championship match to Ohio before falling...
Sunday's MAC Championship match proved to NIU volleyball that history can repeat itself. In a nail-biting championship match, Central Michigan upset the top-seeded Huskies in five grueling sets, 25-21, 25-22, 21-25, 23-25 and 15-11. NIU (27-6, 14-2 MAC)...
