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An aerial view of the Huskie Stadium.

Huskie Stadium turns 50

By Sabreena Saleem | October 19, 2015

A small piece of sod from Glidden Field was planted at the 1965 opening of Huskie Stadium to symbolize the change of football activities to the new stadium — a facility that continues to grow.NIU’s football team competed on the Glidden Field before...

Lisa Carlsen answers questions in a June press conference. Carlsen is preparing for her first season as head coach of the Huskies.

Women’s basketball head coach announced

By Keith Hernandez | June 30, 2015

Lisa Carlsen, former women's basketball head coach at Lewis University in Romeoville, will coach women's basketball for the 2015-16 season.Athletics Director Sean Frazier said Carlsen, who led Lewis to four NCAA appearances, was the right fit for the...

Gogola: Coach Bennett resigns, but Athletic Department refuses to say why

Gogola: Coach Bennett resigns, but Athletic Department refuses to say why

By Frank Gogola | May 4, 2015

Kathi Bennett, who resigned as the women’s basketball head coach on Wednesday, lived and breathed basketball; her unbriddled passion and fire for basketball adds to the mystery of her resignation from NIU without any mention of why.Bennett was wholeheartedly...

NIU cross country: Adrian Myers fulfills NIU dreams

By Frank Gogola | April 30, 2015

Illinois native Adrian Myers said he is more than excited to take the reigns as head coach of the cross country program.Myers will also serve as an assistant track and field coach with the distance runners. Myers replaces Greg Hipp, former cross country...

Kathi Bennett addresses the media in October 2011 at the Convocation Center.

NIU women’s basketball: Head coach Kathi Bennett resigns

By Northern Star staff | April 29, 2015

Kathi Bennett, women’s basketball head coach, has resigned, according to a Wednesday Athletics news release.Bennett leaves behind a record of 57 wins and 93 losses in five seasons. She took the Huskies to the MAC Tournament all five seasons, going 3-5.The...

Top 5 stories | No. 3: Facilities Master Plan unveiled

By Frank Gogola | April 27, 2015

Athletic Director Sean Frazier’s Facilities Master Plan sets up camp as the No. 3 spot on Sports’ countdown of the top five stories of 2014-15.The Facilities Master Plan, unveiled Oct. 30, calls for new athletic complexes and upgrades of current complexes....

Redshirt junior quarterback Drew Hare scans the field in a game against the Central Michigan Chippewas on Oct. 11 at Huskie Stadium. When Hare and the Huskies play their two non-conference road games in 2015 the Athletic Department will pull in $1.25 million in guaranteed money.

NIU football: Huskies set to make $555K from non-conference games

By Frank Gogola | April 9, 2015

Football will generate a net $555,000 in guaranteed money through its four 2015 non-conference games.The payments from one school to another for non-conference games — referred to as guarantee game money or guaranteed money — mainly help offset the...

LaVerne Gyant (left), Center for Black Studies director, helps senior engineering major Krystal Wilson at the center. The chief diversity officer, who will be hired in May, will be in charge of promoting diversity in academic and social settings on campus.

Apps for chief diversity officer to be reviewed Friday

By Satta Kendor | April 6, 2015

Applications for the chief diversity officer, who is expected to make $100,000 to $175,000, will be reviewed Friday, said Provost Lisa Freeman.Despite NIU’s uncertainty surrounding next year’s state allocation, interviews for a pool of eight to 10...

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Drew Hare (12) runs with the ball in the game against the Toledo Rockets on Nov. 11 at Huskie Stadium. Student-athletes from all Div. I sports are eligible to receive cost of attendance scholarships.

NIU athletics: Athletic Director Sean Frazier ironing out cost of attendance

By Frank Gogola | March 16, 2015

Athletic Director Sean Frazier will have a more complete idea of exactly how cost of attendance scholarships will be implemented and the exact dollar figure needed, which he approximated at $800,000 minimally, by June or July.Frazier pounced on the idea...

Athletic Director Sean Frazier said he is looking at how students will be able to use new and upgraded athletic facilities as part of the Facilities Master Plan.

NIU Athletics facilities may open to students

By Frank Gogola | March 5, 2015

Athletic Director Sean Frazier said he is looking at how students will be able to use new and upgraded athletic facilities as part of the Facilities Master Plan.

NIU football: Player’s Instagram post may show new Huskie Stadium field design

By Northern Star staff | March 3, 2015

Clarification: The render of the field design appears to have originated from a tweet from @NorthCoastBias. Athletic Director Sean Frazier tweeted that the field design was "not close." Deppe said the render of Huskie Field is from a tweet by An NIU...

NIU athletics: Frazier not in favor of freshman ineligibility

By Frank Gogola | March 2, 2015

Athletic Director Sean Frazier opposes the idea of freshman ineligibility.Freshman ineligibility would force incoming freshmen to sit out their first year of college athletics to better adapt to college academics. The “year of readiness for all sports...