Soccer stadium is kickin’
By Mike Collins, By Mike Collins, and By Mike Collins
August 25, 2009
Ed Morris/Assistant Photo EditorNorthern Kentucky University's new $6.5 million soccer stadium is in its early stages of construction despite early statements that called for it to be playable in August 2009. Removing the bedrock took more time than expected, causing the projected Aug. 2009 opening t...
Women?s golf swing fourth place finish in conference tournament
Mike Collins and Mike Collins
April 27, 2009
The Northern Kentucky Women's Golf team finished fourth overall in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships April 25-26, at the Kokopelli Golf Course in Marion, Ill. The Norse had three players reach the top 20 individually and all of the participants for NKU finished in the top 30 for the tourn...
Norse sit and wait
Monica Fritsch, Monica Fritsch, and Monica Fritsch
April 27, 2009
The NorthernerThe Northern Kentucky University Women's Tennis team ousted Bellarmine by a 5-4 decision in a third-place consolation match in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament in St. Louis, Mo. April 25. The Norse are anxious' for the NCAA to make its selections for the 64-team field NCA...
Norse earn senior day split
Mike Collins, Mike Collins, and Mike Collins
April 27, 2009
The NorthernerThe Northern Kentucky University Softball team split a two-game series on Senior Day against Great Lakes Valley Conference rival Bellarmine (23-29, 11-13 GLVC)' April 25 at Grein Softball Field. The Norse acknowledged its three seniors, third baseman Cara Parker, left fielder Shatona Ca...
A year of greatness for Norse sports programs
Zac Collins, Zac Collins, and Zac Collins
April 27, 2009
It's nearly finals week and the end of the semester '- the end of my first year as a sports editor here at The Northerner '- is just around the corner. But of course that's problem not particularly 'news' to any of you. Well, except for the part about it being my first semester as a sports editor ...
Women
Mike Collins
April 27, 2009
The Northern Kentucky Women's Golf team finished fourth overall in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships April 25-26, at the Kokopelli Golf Course in Marion, Ill. The Norse had three players reach the top 20 individually and all of the participants for NKU finished in the top 30 for the tourn...
Baseball extends streak
Zac Collins, Zac Collins, and Zac Collins
April 27, 2009
The NorthernerNorthern Kentucky University junior Evan McDole's two-run homer in his first at-bat of the Norse's two-day series against Kentucky Wesleyan, the pitch he was hit by during his ensuing at-bat, and the solo shot he launched over the fence the second day of action are all notable. The f...
Norse tennis storms through competition into conference tournament
Will Chambers, Will Chambers, and Will Chambers
April 14, 2009
Following the days of John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Martina Navratilova in the 1970s and '80s, the popularity of tennis was on a decline through the '90s. Despite featuring a number of top American men, including one who was perhaps the sport's greatest champion '- Pete Sampras, and possibly the great...
Softball sweeps Miners, falls to Tritons
Mike Collins, Mike Collins, and Mike Collins
April 14, 2009
The Northern Kentucky University Softball team swept Missouri S&T in a two-game series April 11 at S&T Softball Field, in Rolla, Mo. The Miners (14-21, 6-10 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference) scored two runs off of two hits in the bottom of the second to take an early lead in the ballgame. However, ...
Tennis eye GLVC tourney
Monica Fritsch, Monica Fritsch, and Monica Fritsch
April 14, 2009
Thanks to respective wins over Southern Indiana, both, the Northern Kentucky University Men and Women's tennis teams have earned spots for the Great Lakes Valley Conference tournament. The women's team clinched the tournament berth with a 9-0 route over Southern Indiana. The men's team's qualification, however, ...
BOKC to welcome new neighbor
Zac Collins, Zac Collins, and Zac Collins
April 14, 2009
Northern Kentucky University soccer teams will begin enjoying an actual home field advantage sometime within the next couple of seasons, according to the university's athletic department, which recently revealed plans to erect a new $6.5 million stadium for the program. According to NKU Athletic Direct...
Women hosting Midwest regional
Zac Collins, Zac Collins, and Zac Collins
March 12, 2009
Moments after the Northern Kentucky University Women's Basketball team walked off the court from its first-ever game in the Bank of Kentucky Center on Nov. 8, 2008, the Norse officially christened the team's new home. ' Subsequent to falling to the University of Louisville 90-73 in the exhibition outi...
