With the season over for the hockey Huskies and a week off before the NCAA Frozen Four between the Boston Terriers, Miami Redhawks, Vermont Catamounts and Bemidji State Beavers, it’s time to take a look at some former Huskies who’ve continued their careers into the professional ranks.

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If the hockey Huskies’ season was a bad two-hour movie, you’d have turned it off after the first 10 minutes. Unfortunately for Huskies’ fans and players, it wasn’t. Instead, the Huskies won just six times all season and only twice after Christmas. To say this was a nightmare scenario barely does the season justice, but there are reasons to look forward to next season.

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Women’s tennis coach Mike Axford suggested that a 3-2 record in Orlando, Fla., was a favorable outcome, but his girls did so much more, going 4-1, including four straight wins after dropping the opening match against Bethel, 9-0. With the wins, the Huskies are now 13-6 overall on the season.

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The hockey Huskies gave it their all this weekend in Grand Forks, N.D., but in the end it wasn’t enough, as they fell just short of forcing a decisive third game for the second straight season, falling to the No. 6 North Dakota Fighting Sioux, 4-3, on Saturday after dropping a 5-1 decision on Friday.

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The Michigan Tech women’s basketball team is headed for San Antonio! The No. 22-ranked Huskies won the 2009 NCAA Midwest Regional Championship with a 69-52 score over Indianapolis at the Bank of Kentucky Center tonight. Tech led by as many as 25 points and stayed on top down the stretch to claim the program’s second regional title and the first since 1993.

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Like most Michigan Tech students, the men’s and women’s tennis Huskies are preparing to travel for Spring Break to the warmer pastures of Orlando, Fla. Unlike the rest of their classmates, who will be enjoying the sun, both squads will be playing tough matches against top-notch opponents.

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Even with a game-time temperature of one degree, hundreds of fans surrounded the black rink for the overall broomball championship. Out of the 220 teams that started the season with hopes of making it to this game, The Abnormal Force and Fair Warning earned the right to play in the championship. Fair Warning was clearly a skilled team, but The Abnormal Force reigned supreme, defeating Fair Warning 7-1. The Abnormal Force were broomball’s most dominating force throughout the year, accumulating 208 goals while only giving up nine in its 15 overall wins.

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For the second straight night, the Michigan Tech Huskies took an early first period lead before the No. 15 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs evened the game at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena en route to a 2-2 tie on Saturday night. With the tie, the Huskies set a new school record with seven ties.“We played to win,” said Huskies’ head coach Jamie Russell. “I challenged the team. Guys stepped up, and we rose to the occasion.”

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Comic hypnotist Dale K’s return to the Rozsa Center last Friday was a wild and goofy night of silliness and comic mayhem. Preceded by a sound montage of songs, TV themes and commercials as if on an expansive FM spectrum flipped through by impatient fingers, a refined voice came through the speaker asking the audience to “please silence… cell phones and obnoxious boyfriends,” and then Dale K took the stage.
While attractive assistant Tanya helped demonstrate a hypnosis wheel to make her head appear larger and smaller, Dale K distinguished this optical illusion from hypnotism. (Tanya was later pursued by male volunteers, at rapid turns led by the power of suggestion to find her irresistible and repellent.) The dynamic hypnotist explained that hypnotism was based on imagination, and was like sleep, but “not real sleep, more like you’re daydreaming.” After hypnosis, he said, “everything I say will sound like a really good idea.”
After some standard disclaimers, such as that if the volunteers ran into the brick wall behind the back curtain they might die (“at the end of the night your family will own this school”), the fun began. The sleeping panel, at stages of relaxation from lounging to listlessness, belted themselves into sports cars and denied bellowing moos at the ringing of cowbells, became a kangaroo feeding a joey in their pouch or a disgruntled leprechaun demanding the return of gold coins in an accent shifting from cockney to Northern-Irish. Dale K thankfully had his back to the audience when female volunteers, who ranged from amused to mortified, were able to see through his clothes with ad hoc X-ray vision.
K had warned that women who think they might be pregnant should not volunteer and “if you’re male and you think you’re pregnant, come up here, and we’ll have a lot of fun with you.” Indeed, after difficult labor, two male volunteers gave birth and later breastfed sharp-teethed infants. One of the most outrageously funny segments of the evening, the infant’s proud father took him on a five-minute trip to the moon to recover alien DNA with a giant syringe. “Captain Tennille,” translated on CNN by a sign language interpreter, was able to converse in fluent moon-language with a loosey-goosey alien with purple antennae who rode giant gerbils.
The audience roared and was sometimes convulsively overwhelmed with laughter seeing some of the performances from volunteers they knew whose hands were super-glued together or stroked a bunny or puma (the puma started eating the bunny), volunteers told to “Shut up!” by a stuffed purple dinosaur.
After giving Dale K a standing ovation, an exhilarated audience slowly left the Rozsa into the navy-blue night. Hopefully, Tech will be able to look forward next year to a hilarious encore from this engaging hypnotist.

The women’s tennis Huskies began the spring portion of their 2008-09 schedule off the right way with a win over the Lake Superior State Lakers on Saturday at the Gates Tennis Center, 5-4. Despite falling behind 2-1 after the doubles matches, the Huskies battled hard for the win.
The Huskies (9-5 overall, 5-4 GLIAC) struck first as co-captain Silvia Oliveros and sophomore Nathalia Rondelli made short work of Weronika Lomaka and Gaby Juan-Alladio, 8-3. The duo is now 7-8 on the season.
The Lakers struck back as Erin Wiethoff and Ingrid Pfieger defeated junior Danielle Stoll and freshman Caitlin Hartley, 8-5.
The outcome wasn’t much better for co-captain Samantha Jang-Stewart and sophomore Asel Otunchieva, who fell in a tiebreaker to Carolyn Pumford and Adrienne DiVito, 8-9(4-7).
Oliveros scored her second point of the match in a three-set match against Pflieger, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, at number one singles. Oliveros is now 12-6 on the season.
The Huskies took a brief lead in the match after Rondelli won a marathon match against Lomacka after taking tiebreakers in both sets, 7-6(7-5), 7-6(7-4), at number two singles. Rondelli improved to 10-5 on the year by the end of the weekend.
DiVito evened the match at three apiece at number three singles.
Pumford regained the lead for the Lakers with her win at number six singles.
The Huskies evened the match again after Juan-Alladio was forced to retire against Otunchieva at number four singles, 6-3, 1-6, 1-2. With the win, Otunchieva improved to 9-5 on the year.
Stoll won the match for the Huskies with a three-set thriller at number five singles against Wiethoff, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
On Sunday, the Huskies struck again, cruising to an 8-1 win over the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, thanks to a 3-0 advantage in doubles to start things off right.
Oliveros and Rondelli won easily, 8-1, over Rose Phippen and Katie Bolf.
Hartley and Stoll earned an 8-2 win at number three doubles over Kelly Rosengren and Sara Dezell.
Jang-Stewart and Otunchieva completed the doubles sweep with their 8-5 win over Stephanie Keller and Carrie Dahlman.
Oliveros cruised to a 6-1, 6-0, win over Phippen at number one singles.
Rondelli earned the crucial fifth team point with her 6-0, 6-2, win at number two singles over Dahlman.
Jang-Stewart and Otunchieva both earned wins at numbers three and four singles, respectively, in straight sets. Jang-Stewart over Keller, 6-2, 6-1, and Otunchieva over Bolf, 6-3, 6-2.
Hartley needed a tiebreaker in her third set to earn a4-6, 6-1, 1-0 (10-5) win over Dezell in the number six singles slot.
The Bulldogs earned their only point at number five singles.
The Huskies are off until March 6-11 when they’ll compete in Orlando, Fla.