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Mens's Team Coaches

Baseball	Neil McPhee	373-3657
Basketball	Rudy Keeling	373-4464
Crew	John Pojednic	373-4468
Cross-Country	Sherman Hart	373-3555
Football	Don Brown	373-5549
Ice Hockey	Bruce Crowder	373-2631
Soccer	Ed Matz	373-4465
Track & Field	Sherman Hart	373-3555

Both Henderson Boathouse and the Barletta Natatorium are home to Northeastern teams.

Women's Team Coaches

Northeastern University is an integral part of the New England sports community, fielding 19 varsity teams in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sports as well as other teams and individuals in national and international arenas.

The university's teams, nicknamed the Huskies, are also some of the region's most successful. For example, the field hockey team has advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 10 of the last 11 years, including three trips to the Final Four. In the fall of 1994, Northeastern hosted the NCAA field hockey championship at Parsons Field, and the newly renovated facility will be the site of the national semifinals and title game again in 1999. The basketball teams have a similar tradition of excellence. The men have competed in seven NCAA Tournaments over the past 18 years. The women's team has consistently been among the conference's elite, winning the America East title in the 1998-99 season and advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the first time.

On the ice, the men's hockey team has won Beanpot and Hockey East titles, while the women's team is annually among the best in the ECAC and the nation. The Husky hockey teams play at Matthews Arena, which dates to 1910 and is one of the country's most treasured and revered athletic buildings.

The Husky baseball, football, and soccer programs have shown rapid improvement in recent years. The baseball team won the conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Regionals in 1994 and '97; the football team ended with the most wins in school history (eight) and No. 23 in the I-AA poll in '97, and the men's soccer team set a program record for wins, advancing to the league's title game in 1996. Women's soccer became a varsity sport at the university in 1996 and gained full membership into the America East Conference for the 1997 campaign. The women's swimming and diving program also is on the rise, annually sending selected team members to the NCAA Championship meet.

Northeastern also has some of New England's finest crews and track teams. The men's crew is a regular contender for the Eastern Sprints championship and in 1991 rowed to a second-place finish at the National Championship Regatta. The women earned a bid to the first two NCAA Championship regattas in 1998 and '99. On the track, the women have won five straight outdoor conference championships, and the men four of the last 10. The men and women both won indoor conference titles in 1996.

Northeastern teams compete as part of the America East Conference, with some exceptions: Football plays in the tough Atlantic 10 Conference, women's hockey competes in the ECAC, and men's hockey is in Hockey East, the nation's premier league. There's little question that Northeastern's conferences are also making great strides. In the 1998-99 season, the Atlantic 10 had the I-AA football champion (Massachusetts), Hockey East member Maine won the national title, and America East sent five of its members to NCAA postseason play in basketball. In women's hockey, the ECAC is clearly the nation's top league, providing three of the final four teams both in 1998 and '99.

Many Husky athletes have gone on to great accomplishments at the international and professional levels. Most recently, baseball first baseman Carlos Pena was a first round pick (10th selection overall) of the Texas Rangers in the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft. At the end of the 1997-98 hockey season, standout Husky goalie Marc Robitaille signed a deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Record-setting quarterback Jim Murphy became a member of the NFL's New England Patriots.

Shelley Looney ('95) became the first gold medalist in Husky history as a member of the victorious US women's ice hockey team in the 1998 Olympiad at Nagano, Japan. Ben Smith, the coach of Team USA, coached the NU men's hockey team from 1991-96. Laura Schuler ('94) earned a silver medal as part of the Canadian team. Two Northeastern oarsmen won silver at the 1992 Olympiad, and a 1994 men's track alumnus, Erik Nedeau, finished third at the 1995 Indoor World Championship in Barcelona. The late Reggie Lewis was an All-Star and captain for the Boston Celtics, and former Husky Sean Jones won a Super Bowl title with the Green Bay Packers.

All intercollegiate teams welcome new members. To qualify, you must be in good academic standing and making acceptable progress toward the completion of a degree. You must also be registered as a full-time student at Northeastern. This means you must be carrying a minimum of twelve quarter-hours of credit during an academic quarter, or working on a co-op assignment, doing student teaching, or performing clinical work. You also must follow all regulations and rules of the NCAA and the college in which you are enrolled. Student-athletes must maintain the required Quality Point Average and remain in good academic standing as defined by your degree program. Your anticipated graduation date cannot have changed due to poor academic performance. Specific policies and guidelines relating to academic eligibility for athletics are distributed in writing to all student-athletes.

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