Behind point guard Grace Barry and a career high point total from Taryn Schuette, the top-ranked Bulldog women's basketball team rocked Peru State, 100-55, on the first day of the 2018 Cattle Classic.
The 19th annual women's Cattle Classic will play out this Friday and Saturday inside Walz Arena. The event raises money and food for the Blue Valley Community Action's Food Pantry. Canned goods will be accepted for admission.
It was the first of what the Bulldogs hope will be many championships in 2018-19. Concordia forced 49 turnovers and steamrolled host Viterbo, 93-43, in Saturday (Oct. 27)'s Viterbo Invite title game.
Sophomore Taylor Cockerill carried the Bulldogs offensively in a 40-point effort on Friday afternoon (Oct. 26). Her performance helped spur the top-ranked Bulldogs to an 81-68 victory over No. 15 Indiana Wesleyan.
She's steady and consistent, just like the Concordia women's basketball program. As the lone senior on the varsity roster, Quinn Wragge takes on the responsibility of helping the Bulldogs "focus and finish."
A three-games-in-three-days stretch begins Thursday (Oct. 25) with an exhibition for NAIA Division II's top-ranked women's basketball team. The Bulldogs will tip things off for real in La Cross, Wis., on Friday.
The Bulldog women's basketball team will have the No. 1 national ranking next to its name when the season opens up Friday at the Viterbo Invitational. Concordia has earned its 16th No. 1 ranking in program history.
On the heels of back-to-back GPAC regular-season and tournament titles, the Concordia women's basketball team has been pegged to three-peat. The Bulldogs scooped up nine of 12 first-place votes in the poll.
Following a 2017-18 season in which the Bulldog women's basketball program equaled a school record with 36 wins, Drew Olson's squad finds itself in an enviable position. All-Americans Philly Lammers and Quinn Wragge return to the lineup.
For the second time in four years, Drew Olson has been named the Midlands college women’s coach of the year by the Omaha World-Herald. Olson's 2017-18 team won 36 times and reached the national title game.
Mackenzie Koepke had played in 102 of a possible 103 games over her first three seasons. After missing the 2021-22 season due to injury, the Lincoln Lutheran alum, a link back to the national championship team, is determined to go out on her own terms.
Just a few weeks after playing the 123rd and final game of her collegiate career, Rylee Pauli reflected on four years of Concordia Women's Basketball. There were ups, downs, unique experiences and incredible highs.
Led by do-it-all guard Taysha Rushton and relentless senior Rylee Pauli, the 2021-22 Bulldogs extended the program's national tournament streak while beating five teams that qualified for nationals throughout the season.
Four starters, including First Team All-GPAC star Taysha Rushton, return for a Concordia Women's Basketball program coming off an appearance in the NAIA national quarterfinals last season. Depth will be a strength.
Taylor Cockerill and Taysha Rushton were the ringleaders for a squad that reached the NAIA national quarterfinals while playing an exciting brand of hoops in 2020-21.
For Concordia Women's Basketball, tradition never graduates. That's become evident in 2020-21, even as the program 'rebuilt' following the graduation of several stars.
In season No. 15 as head coach, Drew Olson has reached the 400-win milestone. As his current and former players will attest, Concordia Women's Basketball is about more than winning.
From October 2011 through December 2020, Concordia Women's Basketball was included in every possible NAIA top 25 ranking, a run of 97-straight poll appearances.
It's a new-look Concordia Women's Basketball team, but the program is determined to prove it's still a major force in the GPAC and nationally. Taylor Cockerill and Mackenzie Koepke are the headlining returners.
Don't forget about TC. The leading scorer for the 2018-19 national championship team, Taylor Cockerill is roughly 90 percent of the way back from the knee injury she suffered last October.