Walz Arena will be the venue for the GPAC women's basketball championship game for the fourth year in a row. Concordia will meet rival Hastings on Tuesday in a battle of powerhouses.
The Concordia pressure forced Dordt into 35 turnovers and fueled a 94-79 GPAC semifinal win on Saturday (Feb. 29). The Bulldogs will now host the GPAC final for the fourth-straight year.
After pummeling Midland in the GPAC quarterfinals, No. 2 Concordia will meet Dordt in the semifinals on Saturday. The Bulldogs have won 10 GPAC tournament games in a row.
Sophomore Mackenzie Koepke put on a shooting display as part of a dominant beginning to the postseason for second-ranked Concordia. The Bulldogs pummeled Midland, 95-46.
Senior Philly Lammers notched 18 points in both of last week's road wins as the Bulldogs wrapped up the outright GPAC regular-season title. As a result, Lammers earned GPAC Player of the Week honors.
After wrapping up a fourth-straight GPAC regular-season title, the Bulldogs now take aim at a fourth-straight conference postseason championship. Second-ranked Concordia will host Midland on Wednesday.
It took four quarters to put it away, but the second-ranked Bulldogs took care of business at Jamestown and polished off a GPAC regular-season title. Concordia has won four championships in a row.
Accomplished seniors Grace Barry and Philly Lammers both garnered recognition as members of the 2020 Academic All-District® Women’s Basketball Teams, as selected by CoSIDA.
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.
On the same night, Grace Barry reached 1,000 career points and Philly Lammers notched 1,000 career rebounds. The star duo helped lead the second-ranked Bulldogs to a 75-68 win at Midland on Wednesday (Feb. 19).
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."