Two more ranked opponents make up this week's schedule for Concordia volleyball. The Bulldogs welcome top-ranked Midland for a 7:30 p.m. CT match on Wednesday.
A trip to Orange City, Iowa, proved treacherous for Concordia volleyball, which dropped matches to Northwestern and No. 2 Westmont on Saturday (Oct. 8) afternoon.
It wasn't Concordia volleyball's night. The Bulldogs fell in straight sets at No. 20 Bellevue University on Wednesday.
Freshman Emma Brand surfaced with the "best match of her career" to help lead the Concordia volleyball team to a straight-sets win over Briar Cliff inside Walz Arena on Saturday (Oct. 1) afternoon.
A Concordia team that continues to fight through injury showed guts on Wednesday (Sept. 28) despite a four-set loss at No. 4 Hastings. Tiegen Skains collected 13 kills for the Bulldogs.
With several key pieces out of action, Concordia fell to No. 9 Dordt on Saturday (Sept. 24) afternoon inside Walz Arena.
After taking the first two-hotly contested sets at 17th-ranked Doane on Wednesday, Concordia let it slip away. Tiegen Skains hit .417 for the Bulldogs.
Concordia volleyball enters this week having won nine of its last 10 matches. Now the Bulldogs face a stretch of nine of 10 contests versus ranked/receiving votes teams.
Concordia came away with two of the three weekly honors handed out by the GPAC on Tuesday (Sept. 20). Bulldog standouts Jocelyn Garcia and Alayna Kavanaugh were the award recipients.
Facing almost certain defeat, the Concordia volleyball team pulled a rabbit out of its hat on Saturday evening inside Walz Arena. The Bulldogs rallied to defeat Morningside in five sets.
The 2017 Concordia volleyball team will look very different than the 2016 version. The Bulldogs spent this spring adjusting to life without an accomplished senior class. Head coach Scott Mattera discussed the status of the program.
The Concordia volleyball program entered this fall with high hopes. The team's 15-19 overall record was not what anyone associated with the program had in mind, but the outlook is positive for 2017 and beyond.
The odds said Concordia volleyball had almost no chance of winning when it trailed 24-19 in the third set versus Morningside on Sept. 17. The Bulldogs then rallied for perhaps the greatest comeback in program history.
The Concordia volleyball program hopes to continue its upward trajectory with a big 2016 season. Scott Mattera's squad is loaded with key returners from its 2015 national tournament qualifier.
A talented, fun-loving group of seniors helped Concordia volleyball to new heights in 2015. Now they look forward to even bigger goals in 2016.
Yes, baseball pitching drills were part of the spring secret to gaining more explosiveness at the net. Head coach Scott Mattera also believes his team made strides this spring in regards to its passing.
In 2015, the Concordia volleyball team set new records and achieved goals that had never been reached in the history of the program. After a 10-21 season in Scott Mattera’s first year in 2012, the head coach developed a team that improved to 26-9 in the most recent season.
The current class of Concordia volleyball seniors knows exactly what it’s like to watch a program rise from near the bottom of the conference to the heights of a national tournament berth.
The making of a national tournament volleyball team at Concordia did not happen overnight. The core of the first Bulldog squad ever to break through and reach the national tournament all arrived in the last two to four years.
A fifth-straight appearance in the Tachikara - NAIA Volleyball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll yielded the first top-15 ranking for the Concordia University volleyball program since October of 2000.