Northeastern women’s hockey had been playing at Matthews Arena since before there was even a Northeastern women’s hockey team. It spent its first two full seasons there as a non-varsity club from 1978 to 1980. However, before the club was even established, Chris Yannetty and Donna Sorrentino, the eventual founding team captains, organized a scrimmage…
It’s Fall 1981, in a White Hall dorm room. Jim Madigan wakes up for his very first collegiate home game playing at the historic Matthews Arena. He’s a 19-year-old freshman with no idea of the career at Northeastern University that lies ahead of him. Fast forward 44 years. Madigan, now 63, sits in his office…
January 16, 1998. “Titanic” was entering its fifth week at the top of the box office. “Truly Madly Deeply” by Savage Garden sat at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The President of the United States was about to be enveloped in a sex scandal that would end up leading to his impeachment. And…
Around 10 a.m. on Sep. 24, just a week before the start of the regular season, the Northeastern women’s hockey team went from a full squad of 26 players to 25. An hour and a half later, an email from Brigitte Aube, a sophomore on Northeastern’s women’s club hockey team, graced the inboxes of the…
By the time Danny Crossen stepped into helping lead player development at Northeastern, he had already lived the full arc of a college baseball journey. Now, one year removed from a record-breaking senior season, he’s bringing that experience to the next generation from a different vantage point. But Crossen’s route to Northeastern wasn’t typical. In…
Recruit now, win in four. Since the dawn of college basketball — college athletics in general, really — that was the mantra. Coaches recruited players out of high school under the assumption that they’d have four years to mold them into better players, better individuals, better winners, all while the athlete donned the same colors…
Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript taken from part of WRBB Sports’ recent interview with Northeastern Athletic Director Jim Madigan. You can listen to the full 40-minute interview as a podcast on The Northeastern Hockey Show or Hockey East This Week feeds, which is available on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. The following questions and…
With the benefit of hindsight, Northeastern head coach Mike Glavine has a confession: He should have recruited Tyler MacGregor and Alex Lane more seriously as high schoolers. Back in 2017, MacGregor and Lane were star teammates at St. John’s Prep, a Massachusetts baseball powerhouse located just 35 minutes from Northeastern’s campus. And both players were…
It was the ninth game of Kristina Allard’s college career, and the New Hampshire native had family and friends on hand at the Whittemore Center for her first-ever meeting against her home-state team, UNH. She never could have imagined how that game would change the course of her hockey career. During her standout prep career…
After successful four-year careers at Division II and Division III schools, two transfers are stepping up to the mound at Friedman Diamond this season for Northeastern. Pitchers Patrick Harrington and Griffin Young were added to the Huskies’ roster this year, joining fellow right-hander Jordy Allard, a 2022 D-III transfer now in his second season with…
It was move-in day at Northeastern, and Liam Walsh needed some help. “I didn’t know where to go park or go to get moved in, and I didn’t know where to go to get my Husky card,” Walsh said. “Dunzo was coming around the same time, so my parents and I just waited until he…
When Jack Williams committed to Northeastern in 2017, Zach-Aston Reese had just finished his senior season tied for the NCAA lead in scoring. At first glance, that’s the only real connection between the two. But if a coach compares an incoming freshman, particularly an undrafted one like Williams, to one of the team’s former greats,…
2021 was full of unknowns for the Huskies. Would the season survive a COVID-19 outbreak? How would players recover from a shortened offseason? How would the team fare in a full-length regular season after the craziness of a pandemic-shortened schedule a year prior? This season, there are many more certinaities across the college soccer landscape,…
Story by Hugh McGuire BOSTON — If you have watched any Northeastern men’s basketball games, you may have noticed a familiar face on the bench. Bolden Brace, who starred on the Huskies from 2016 to 2020, is back on the team. This time though, instead of draining threes, he is helping the Huskies in another…
