Northern Kentucky Sports Chronicle

--- Note: This PDF document was originally published on May 22, 2009. --- The current NKU Athletics Web site launched in 1999 and has gone through considerable changes during the past 10 years. Another big change will occur this summer when NKU launches its new Web site, which will be run through Internet Consulting Services. To celebrate the 10th birthday of the NKU Athletics Web site, here are many of the players, coaches and memorable moments from the past 10 years. (click below for publication) https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfocp/xmyk/#p=1

Here is the 2010 publication detailing the first 39 years of the athletics department at Northern Kentucky University. The link for the PDF document is below. https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfocp/smjj/#p=1  

Here is the 2012-13 NKU men’s basketball media guide. This is the first year of NKU’s transition to NCAA Division I. Click the link below for the complete PDF. https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfocp/yvbg/#p=1

Below is the 2012-13 women’s basketball media guide produced during Northern Kentucky University’s inaugural season in Division I. Click the link below for the PDF. https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfocp/kmih/#p=1

(This article was originally published on March 19, 2020) ------------- E veryone is frightened right now. All of us. While we wait out the pandemic and pray for the best, the ultimate escape from everyday worries in the United States — sports — is also on hiatus. How many of you had today and Friday reserved for vacation? Given this would have been the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, probably a number of you were expecting to enjoy two whole days and evenings of the buzzer-beaters, blowouts and upsets that have made March Madness a worldwide sensation. Not this year. No NBA. No MLB. No NHL. No college sports of any kind. We’re all in a fear-induced holding pattern. And we can’t turn to sports as an escape vehicle. It could be a lot worse, though. Many years ago, my dad spent several weeks on an island in the South Pacific while in the U. S. Army. It was a place called Iwo Jima. Dad was part of an American invasion force called Operation Detachment. The objective was to take t...

(This story was originally published on Jan. 7, 2022) A calendar is barely noticeable for most of the year. They hang on a wall in the house. They linger on computers and smart phones. With the exception of holidays, who really pays attention to a calendar? One local family definitely has an important date circled on the calendar each year. It’s the Schloemer family, one of the most iconic names in Northern Kentucky prep basketball history. That date is Jan. 7. For brothers Doug and Mark Schloemer, what happened exactly 47 years ago tonight is more than a date on the calendar. That’s the night Doug, then a freshman at Holmes, made his first career start for the Bulldogs. Here is what happened on Jan. 7, 1975. https://online.fliphtml5.com/hfocp/apjs/#p=1