The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the 2019 fall season in Northern Michigan University football

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Justin Florek has come home to play hockey. Well, not entirely home, as the Marquette native and former Northern Michigan University player won’t be returning to the Upper Peninsula, but he will be lacing up his skates in the U.S. this winter. After spending the last ...

The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for last fall’s volleyball season at Northern Michigan University

MARQUETTE — The WCHA made separate announcements about its men’s and women’s ice hockey leagues on Thursday, but both state that the start of their seasons will be delayed this fall. This was in conjunction with a statement also made Thursday by the Hockey Commissioners Association, ...

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University Athletics Department has announced the newest inductees to the NMU Sports Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees to the NMU Sports Hall of Fame include Mark Beaufait, Dawn Donaldson, Michael Santorelli, Matthew Wonders, Marissa (Dellangelo) ...

READING, Pa. — Northern Michigan University forward Luke Voltin is now a member of hockey royalty. Well, technically Reading Royalty, as the senior signed a contract with the ECHL franchise Monday. The Royals are the the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers’ minor league affiliate. Voltin had the ...

MARQUETTE — An award-winning documentary about the 1975 national championship football team from Northern Michigan University is scheduled to stream online at the 2020 Dances with Films Festival in California next week. Normally the film festival shows 14 documentaries at the TCL Chinese ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska-Anchorage is dropping its men’s hockey, men’s and women’s skiing and women’s gymnastics programs because of significant reductions in state funding. The programs will shut down in the 2021-22 academic year. The Seawolves play with the Northern ...

MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan and Michigan Tech universities have announced that their main sports league, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, has suspended all its sports competition until Jan. 1 due to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. The 12 schools that make up the ...

MARQUETTE — Head coach Matt Majkrzak and the Northern Michigan University men’s basketball program recently hired a new assistant coach. Joining former Wildcats player Naba Echols as an assistant coach is Charlie Wallrapp, who coached the past two seasons at NAIA member Clarke University ...

MARQUETTE — A half-dozen Northern Michigan University men’s basketball players and their overall team recently earned academic awards from the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The six were named to the 2019-20 NABC Honors Court, while the Wildcats also earned Team Academic ...

The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the fall 2019 Northern Michigan University men’s soccer season

MARQUETTE — The Campus Recreation center located within the PEIF — officially known as the Physical Education Instructional Facility — at Northern Michigan University will reopen with limited capacity and amenities on Monday. As part of Phase I of their reopening plan, only individuals ...

"St. Thomas brings a unique combination of positive attributes that round out our conference." — Forrest Karr, NMU athletic director, CCHA Management Council chairman ----------------- ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Even though its re-inauguration is more than a year away, the Central ...

"We’re working toward returning to competition safely." — Kris Dunbar, commissioner, Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ---------------- BAY CITY — Northern Michigan University’s main sports league, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, announced Monday ...

The best in sports photography from The Mining Journal for the fall 2019 Northern Michigan University women’s soccer season

MARQUETTE — Former Northern Michigan University hockey defenseman Phil Beaulieu has agreed to a two-way deal with the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League and the Allen Americans of the East Coast Hockey League, as announced by the clubs on Wednesday. Beaulieu, who was captain of the ...

LAS VEGAS — Mikaela Mayer made history Tuesday evening, but more importantly, she earned the win. Mayer improved her professional record to 13-0 with five knockouts as she outboxed Helen Joseph over 10 rounds, earning a unanimous decision at the MGM Grand “bubble.” Two judges scored ...

Tonight: Mikaela Mayer (12-0, 5 KOs) vs. Helen Joseph (17-4-2, 10 KOs), 9 p.m., ESPN ----------------- LAS VEGAS — Jamel Herring was supposed to fight Tuesday night as part of a feel-good card topped by two boxers who had tested positive for the coronavirus. The virus had other ideas. ...

MARQUETTE — Head coach Jenny Ryan and the Northern Michigan University women’s track and field team has landed six recruits for the 2020-21 indoor and outdoors seasons that run from early December through the end of May. “This incoming class will add depth and strength to many different ...