Right: The NIU Track & Field team
worked a booth at DeKalb's annual
CornFest. Below: Chandler Harnish
(left) and Jake Coffman (right) of the
NIU football team helped unload items
for the University Women's Club for a
citywide yard sale. Proceeds from the
sale helped fund scholarships for local
women.
Community
Quick Facts
• Huskie studentathletes routinely
eclipse the 3,000-hour
mark in community
service.
• NIU student-athletes
work with several local
organizations and
charities, inluding
DeKalb's Hope Have
Shelter, the Salvation
Army, and Colleges vs.
Cancer.
• From Girl Scout slumber
parties to reading
at local elementary
schools to working
DeKalb's annual
CornFest, the Huskies
are active in the
DeKalb-Sycamore
community.
Above: Members of the NIU softball
team vistited patients at the Ann &
Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of
Chicago.
Below: Student-athletes from NIU's
female sport teams spent the night
at the Convocation Center with area
Girl Scouts for a slumber party. The
Huskies played games and snacked on
pizza before turning out the lights at
Victor E. Court.
Adam Kiel (left) became the second Huskie and one of only
22 student-athletes nationally named to the 2010 Allstate
AFCA Good Works Team.
