MARQUETTE — Head women’s basketball coach Casey Thousand of Northern Michigan University has announced that a half-dozen high school students have signed national letters of intent to become Wildcats players for the 2026-27 season. Taylor Gifford, Adysen Fanta, Alli Jirsa, Izzy Ivezaj, ...
UNIVERSITY CENTER — Worst to first! Worst to first! Despite that call becoming more common all across the sports world over the years, it still seems amazing that a team that couldn’t get past anyone in its league at one time becomes the cream of the crop, the best that can be offered up, ...
MARQUETTE — The volleyball team at Northern Michigan University took care of business over the weekend to insure the Wildcats will host a conference tournament quarterfinal match on Wednesday evening. NMU defeated 10th-place Lake Superior State in three sets and ninth-place Saginaw Valley ...
MARQUETTE — It might have been unthinkable a month ago, and maybe not thought possible even two weeks ago, but now the football team at Northern Michigan University has swept all the conference weekly awards after its season-ending 45-11 win over Wayne State on Saturday in the Superior ...
Journal Sports Editor MARQUETTE — Two seniors and a junior from the women’s soccer team at Northern Michigan University earned conference postseason honors as announced on Thursday by the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Senior captain Hannah Kastamo was named to the ...
MARQUETTE — Without ever seeing Arizona, you can still call the Northern Michigan University football team and its redshirt freshman running back Noah Dobert a phoenix rising from the ashes. Of course, that “phoenix” has nothing to do with the southwestern U.S. state’s largest city, ...