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Wildcat women’s season ends in NCAA 1st round

ALLENDALE — The women’s basketball team at Northern Michigan University couldn’t extend its string to three straight years with a win in the NCAA Division II national tournament after losing to Wayne State in its opener on Friday. The Wildcats’ foe from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate ...

NMU men’s trio All-Americans at alpine nat’ls

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Three skiers from the alpine teams at Northern Michigan University received All-American honors at the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association Nationals held over five days last week at the site of multiple Winter Olympics. Wildcats sophomore Kyan Hopke earned ...

Diver Ceglinski twice an All-American for NMU women

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Junior diver Kalina Ceglinski was the star for the women’s swimming and diving team of Northern Michigan University, earning All-American honors not once, but twice, at the NCAA Division II Championships held in Evansville, Indiana, last week. These were her first ...

Weiche ekes out win for NMU lacrosse

ASHLAND, Ohio — The lacrosse team at Northern Michigan University didn’t realize it at the time, but their 13-12 win at Ashland in the middle of Ohio on Friday afternoon would give them a perfect week. That’s because it wasn’t until the next day that the Wildcats would decide to ...

NMU men pull off last-minute miracle to advance in NCAA tourney

NORTH CANTON, Ohio — There’s a reason college athletes are college-age — they can take a heart-thumping, maybe almost heart-stopping finish to their games. Like the one the men’s basketball team at Northern Michigan University pulled out on Saturday evening, nipping Rockhurst 86-85 ...

One short of the region final

NORTH CANTON, Ohio — The men’s basketball team at Northern Michigan University wasn’t able to keep up their end of the bargain to make the Midwest Regional championship game an all-Upper Peninsula final. The Wildcats bowed out of the NCAA Division II Tournament in the semifinals of the ...