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The Concordia volleyball team will be inviting three different teams to Walz Arena Sept. 4-5. Back from a four game road trip from Chicago, the Bulldogs will host Bethel College (Kan.), Benedictine College (Kan.) and York College.
The Concordia volleyball team will be inviting three different teams to Walz Arena Sept. 4-5. Back from a four game road trip from Chicago, the Bulldogs will host Bethel College (Kan.), Benedictine College (Kan.) and York College.
For the first time since 2005, the Concordia University volleyball team has raced out to a 6-0 start. On Saturday the Bulldogs completed a 4-0 Windy City road trip by taking care of two more Chicago-area NAIA programs.
Powered by its veteran stars, the Concordia University volleyball team took its act to the Windy City and remained unbeaten on the young season.
Even after being blitzed in the first set, a confident Concordia University volleyball team continued its run of dominance at home while bucking a negative trend. On Tuesday night the Bulldogs knocked off in-state Bellevue University for the first time since 1995 by way of a 17-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-17 victory.
Fresh off a dominant straight-sets win over Bethany College in its season opener, the Concordia University volleyball team enters a busy week that includes five matches.
In its first outing of the 2015 season, the Concordia University volleyball team delivered on head coach Scott Mattera’s vision of showcasing a fast, powerful and athletic squad.
The Concordia University volleyball team, receiving votes in the national poll, will kick off the 2015-16 season for all Bulldog squads when it hosts Bethany College (Kan.) at 1 p.m. on Saturday (Aug. 22).
Following a GPAC semifinal appearance last season, the Concordia University volleyball program has attained its highest placement in the GPAC preseason coaches’ poll in 13 years and has also received votes in the NAIA preseason national poll.
Powerful floor-thumping kills. Thunderous crowd reactions. Twenty wins. First GPAC tournament win in six seasons. The 2014 campaign reenergized a program that has doubled its win total over the past two years.
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.