MARQUETTE — Last fall, Marcus Tucker received some disappointing news. After spending two seasons on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ practice squad, the former Northern Michigan University wide receiver/kickoff returner was waived by the team. During his time in Pittsburgh, he played in some ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University’s only women’s lacrosse head coach, Emilia Ward, has been lured to an assistant coaching position at NCAA Division I Marquette University in Milwaukee. That what the Golden Eagles website reported on July 9, though NMU ...
MARQUETTE — Two home meets are featured in a 10-meet schedule for the Nordic ski teams at Northern Michigan University next winter. The combined men’s and women’s team is coming off a fourth-place finish among Nordic squads at last season’s NCAA Championships. The women will be led ...
MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University led the GLIAC by having 17 of its swimmers and divers named to the Scholar All-American Team by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America. The award recognizes student-athletes who had a 3.50 or better grade-point average ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Four home events and conference and national meets at the end of the season are featured in the 2019-20 men’s and women’s swimming and diving schedule as released by Northern Michigan University this week. The longest season of any of the ...
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on Carolina Hurricanes GM and former NMU defenseman Don Waddell. Part 1 was in Saturday’s paper. MARQUETTE — For Carolina Hurricanes president and general manager, and former Northern Michigan University hockey player, Don Waddell, ...
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 in a two-part series on Carolina Hurricanes president and general manager Don Waddell. Sunday’s article will involve a closer look at his duties with the Hurricanes. MARQUETTE — If there’s something that appeals to Don Waddell, it’s starting ...
MARQUETTE — The hockey Wildcats at Northern Michigan University will host their NMU Hockey Friends and Family golf outing in September. Using a four-plus-one format, the outing will be held using a shotgun start at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, on the Greywalls course at the Marquette Golf ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — After earning its first GLIAC Tournament appearance ever this past spring, the Northern Michigan University lacrosse team will look to build on that next year as the Wildcats recently released their 2020 schedule. The season opens with three ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University cross country team’s streak of NCAA Division II National Championships bids came to an end last fall, but the Wildcats return a solid core of runners this year and they got a head start recently as they announced this ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Thirty-nine student-athletes at Northern Michigan University were named to the All-Academic and All-Academic Excellence teams by the GLIAC recently. Women’s outdoor track and field led the Wildcats’ varsity programs with 19 honorees among both ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE – After another strong season in 2018-19, the Northern Michigan University women’s golf team got a head start on this year as it recently announced its 2019-2020 schedule. This season, the Wildcats will compete in nine meets in five different states. ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — The 2018-19 season wasn’t an easy one for the Northern Michigan University men’s golf team, but the Wildcats look to improve this year and their schedule opens up with a meet in the Upper Peninsula. NMU starts off the season with the Island Resort ...
MARQUETTE — Last Friday, a surprise announcement was made that sent shockwaves across the college hockey world. One week later, the powers at be in that world are still trying to figure things out. Seven of the 10 current WCHA men’s hockey schools announced that they would be leaving the ...
MARQUETTE — The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams at Northern Michigan University have been earned Scholar All-America mentions for the spring semester from the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America. The Wildcat men had a cumulative grade-point average ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Recent Northern Michigan University graduate Chloe Tompkins is returning to the Wildcats women’s basketball team as an assistant coach. Tompkins was on the team from 2014-19, but was redshirted as a freshman and missed just about all of her final 2 ...
By Journal Sports Staff MARQUETTE — Team Sweden squared off against Team USA in a dual Greco-Roman men’s and freestyle women’s wrestling meet on Wednesday evening at the Superior Dome on the Northern Michigan University campus. Sweden won 22 of the 29 matches as the American squad ...
By STEVE BROWNLEE Journal Sports Editor MARQUETTE — School officials at Northern Michigan University and six other WCHA institutions intend to be tight-lipped about their exploration into leaving the league in the next two years. A news release was posted Friday on the NMU athletics ...
MARQUETTE — Matt Majkrzak was named the 15th head coach in the long history of Northern Michigan University men’s basketball on Wednesday morning. That’s when he was introduced at an introductory press conference in the Izzo-Mariucci Room on NMU’s campus with his first chance to make ...
MARQUETTE — When former Northern Michigan University head men’s basketball coach Bill Sall arrived in town, he was taking over a program that was stuck in the basement of the GLIAC for years. During his six years in charge, the Wildcats gradually climbed the standings and during Sall’s ...