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.
As announced by CoSIDA, Grace Barry is the Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for the entire NAIA. She is the first Concordia student-athlete to ever earn the award.
Let's answer the question: who wore it better? We ran down the top Bulldog women's basketball performers at each jersey number during the 20 seasons of GPAC hoops.
Fans were out in force in anticipation when Voss brought his No. 1-ranked Bulldogs to Hastings for a big-time conference clash with the second-ranked Broncos on Feb. 12, 2003.
Before it all came to an abrupt end, the top-ranked Bulldogs put together another season to remember. They repeated as GPAC regular-season and tournament champions while forging memories along the way.
All-American Philly Lammers will be remembered for her incredible success on the court, her humility and her role in the most successful four-year run in Concordia women's basketball history.
The 2019-20 Concordia women's basketball seniors will leave a mark on the program that will stand the test of time. The results speak for themselves in the form of winning, relationships and memories made.
The Concordia women's basketball team serves a greater purpose than just what is seen on the court on game days. Despite winning a national title, the values of the program have remained unchanged.
What they have is more precious than winning. EVERY single coach/player that experienced the national title run reflected on the emotion of winning a title and just what made this team so special.
Behind Tournament MVP Grace Barry, the Bulldog women's basketball team sealed the deal and won the NAIA Division II national title. Concordia won the national title game by a final score of 67-59 over No. 2 Southeastern.
Following practice at the Tyson Events Center on Sunday (March 10), senior Quinn Wragge reflected back on her career as a Bulldog. Says Wragge, "Everything is a lot bigger than basketball. It’s been everything that I wanted."