Great Day To Be A Polar Bear!

The ONU Women's Soccer team received an at large bid to the 2011 NCAA Tournament! This marks the second time in three seasons that Northern has made it to the "Big Dance!" To make the deal even sweeter, for the first time in program history ONU will be hosting for the first and second round games! The Tournament will kick off at ONU this Saturday when ONU hosts the University of Scranton at 11am. The second match of the day features Illinois Wesleyan University vs. Ithaca College which kicks off at 1:30pm. The winners of both games will face each other at 1pm on Sunday.



In other exciting news, 8 Polar Bears were awarded with OAC honors and 3 received academic all district honors. Senior Chelsea Chadwick was honored as the OAC Defender of the Year. This marks the first conference award for the Tri-Captain! Also receiving first team honors are Alyssa Merrick, Tri-Captain Tara Tokar and Sami Atkinson. Merrick and Atkinson collected double honors as both were selected to the "Second Team Capital One Academic All-District 7" team by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).


Abbie Schauble and Kristina Klusek collected their first OAC awards as both were named Second Team All OAC. Honorable Mentions also went out to Paige Garber and Erin Waehner; Waehner was an Honorable Mention honoree last year as well. Garber also joins Merrick and Atkinson on the "Second Team Capital One Academic All-District 7" team.