Sarah Kuta
November 18, 2009
Filed under Sports, Volleyball
Freshman libero Julie Chin thought she'd have a few months after the season to get used to graduating senior libero Kate Nobilio's absence. But on Saturday night, she got a taste of what next year will be like. Chin's first co...
Katherine Driessen
November 11, 2009
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Naomi Johnson and Sabel Moffett are both junior middle blockers who lead Northwestern in kills and blocks. The similarities end there.Johnson looms over the net with her 6-foot-3 frame and has a tendency to notch sneaky kills. Mo...
Sarah Kuta
November 7, 2009
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Coach Keylor Chan is perfectly fine with a little bullying, especially if it means a Big Ten win.Northwestern lost the opening set to Michigan State 20-25, but managed to push around the Spartans in the last three sets (25-23, 2...
Sarah Kuta
November 4, 2009
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When she's not working on her kills and digs, or prepping for grad school in the library, you might see senior outside hitter Ariel Baxterbeck making her own peanut butter.As an environmental science and psychology major, one of th...
Katherine Driessen
October 31, 2009
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For the Wildcats, there is nothing more familiar than winning a frantic, unpredictable five-set match.Of its four Big Ten wins this season, Northwestern has won them all in five-set nailbiters."We like to win in a dramatic fa...
Sarah Kuta and Sarah Kuta
October 25, 2009
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As far as coach Keylor Chan is concerned, Northwestern never got off the bus Friday night in Iowa City, Iowa. That night, the Wildcats fell to the Hawkeyes in three sets."We were just going through the motions," junior middle bl...
Katherine Driessen
October 11, 2009
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Both of the Wildcats' first two Big Ten wins were five-set nail biters at Welsh-Ryan Arena this weekend. What Northwestern's wins really had in common was a whole lot of Sabel Moffett."Sabel Moffett was really the turning point for...
Katherine Driessen
October 7, 2009
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Despite losing its first four conference games and sitting in last place in the Big Ten, Northwestern is not quite ready to be labeled as the underdog."A lot of teams think of us as underdogs because we haven't won a lot," sen...
Katherine Driessen and Katherine Driessen
September 27, 2009
Filed under Sports, Volleyball
Resiliency was in short order as Northwestern dropped every set en route to a pair of losses to Penn State and Ohio State in its conference opener this weekend."It was a matter of execution," coach Keylor Chan said. "We scout...
