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What can Sammy White add to Northwestern women’s basketball?

3 days ago | insidenu.com | Brendan Preisman

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images With Kyla Jones and Mel Daley departing, Northwestern women’s basketball is losing a combined 20.3 points, 4.4 assists and 2.1 steals per game. Even with the addition of transfer Tate Walters, the Wildcats still had a fairly thin backcourt. Enter Sammy White.
How Northwestern alumni are navigating the unknowns of lacrosse beyond college

2 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

If you walked through the streets of New York City at 5 a.m., you might find Kendall Halpern hitting lacrosse balls against the wall of a brick building. Halpern was once an All-American defender at Northwestern, surrounded by the facilities and resources of an eight-time national championship-winning program. But now that she’s out of college, her insulated team workouts in Ryan Fieldhouse are replaced by solo outings in The City That Never Sleeps.
Send us your end-of-school-year mailbag questions!

3 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li |Miguel Muñoz |Harris Horowitz

Photo by C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images It’s summertime, which means that Northwestern athletics are coming to a pause. However, the sports coverage doesn’t stop there. To commemorate the end of the 2024-25 NCAA season, the Inside NU editor-in-chief trio Yanyan Li, Harris Horowitz and Miguel Munoz will do a mailbag to answer any questions you have. Do you want an evaluation of where Northwestern football is at with a few months left until the season starts?
BREAKING: Northwestern lacrosse gains first team All-American attacker Maddie Epke from James Madison

3 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

James Madison athletics Just over a week after losing to North Carolina in the NCAA championship game, Northwestern lacrosse is already making offseason moves. The Wildcats earned a commitment on Monday from former James Madison attacker and 2025 IWLCA First Team All-American Maddie Epke, arguably one of the biggest names in the transfer portal. Epke currently has Northwestern in her Instagram bio and comes to Evanston with one year of eligibility remaining.
Northwestern needed Madison Taylor to step up. She did way more.

4 weeks ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images At the start of the 2025 lacrosse season, I spoke with Robyn Rooney, Madison Taylor’s former coach at Wantagh High School. I sought out Rooney, in addition to others associated with Taylor, because I wanted a clearer picture of how Taylor would approach her first season as Northwestern’s top offensive weapon and the expectations that came with it.
Stick Season, Week 15: The grand finale

1 month ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Eric Canha-Imagn Images Northwestern concluded its 2025 season in Foxborough this past weekend, which means this week’s Stick Season column is the last. The Wildcats pulled off arguably their best win of the year in a 12-11 comeback victory over Boston College before ending their season with a 12-8 loss to North Carolina. I won’t spend too long picking apart both matches, but I wanted to end this column on a proper note.
The national title game struck Northwestern’s Achilles’ heel, but it still loved the hard fight

1 month ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Throughout the 2025 season, Northwestern lacrosse constantly faced one million-dollar question: whether it could develop adequate offensive depth. That question was never really addressed. That’s not to discredit the numerous scorers on Northwestern’s team, who had their fair share of strong performances throughout the season.
What can Northwestern expect out of Christian Sarkisian?

1 month ago | insidenu.com | Jacob Hare

Northwestern Athletics With college sports rapidly evolving into a professional-style enterprise—thanks to new Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rules and a wide-open transfer portal—it’s no longer realistic for head coaches to act as the sole CEOs of their teams. Roster construction, recruiting, fundraising, and player branding have each become full-time responsibilities. That’s where the general manager comes in.
Northwestern lacrosse rewrote the script to pull off an improbable comeback

1 month ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images If the world were determined by chalk and on-paper storylines, Northwestern lacrosse wasn’t supposed to pull off the improbable. All season long, Northwestern’s identity was shaped just as much by what it lost compared to what it had.
Stick Season, Week 14: The home stretch

1 month ago | insidenu.com | Yanyan Li

Northwestern Athletics It’s Final Four eve, and another Stick Season column is out! Due to my massive academic backlog and Northwestern women’s golf’s NCAA championship run, this week’s piece is out a day late, but the amount of lacrosse content doesn’t change. So let’s talk about all things Lake Show, ranging from Northwestern’s 17-12 NCAA quarterfinal win against Penn and Madison Taylor’s NCAA single-season goals record. We’re back in familiar territory.