Jan. 31, 2010

Signing Day Central

DeKALB, Ill. - Wednesday, Feb. 3 is National Signing Day and NIUHuskies.com is your home for the most complete coverage of all the 2010 signing day activities.

NIUHuskies.com staff will be blogging LIVE from the Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Center, beginning when the first National Letter of Intent faxes arrive at 7 a.m. (Central). Names and bios of the newest Huskies will be posted online in the special "Signing Day 2010" section of NIUHUskies.com as they are received. Get on-the-spot reaction from the Huskie coaching staff and read about the activities taking place in and around the offices of the coaching staff, culminating with NIU Head Coach Jerry Kill's Signing Day press conference LIVE beginning at 1 p.m. (Central). Kill will break down the class and take questions from the media in attendance.

While the press conference is not a public event, fans can follow it live from their computers via Huskies' All-Access. Subscribers will be able to watch the press conference and see video highlights of each member of the signing class, which will be posted and available for viewing via Huskies' All-Access.

To subscribe to Huskies' All-Access, go to www.NIUHuskies.com and click on the All Access words located next to the video player on the front page. In addition to the special signing day coverage, for just $6.95 per month, see all of the men's and women's regular season home basketball games and hear the radio call of every game - home and away - for both teams.

Later in the afternoon, highlights of Kill's comments from the press conference and a complete release summarizing the class will be posted online.

The Northern Illinois men's and women's soccer and women's track and field team will also be signing student-athletes in February. Those signees will be released as the NLIs are received with men's soccer head coach Eric Luzzi expected to announce his initial class on Wednesday and participate in the signing day press conference.

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