Taylor Cockerill and Taysha Rushton showcased some big-time shot making on Tuesday (March 2) in leading a furious rally. However, host Morningside held off the Bulldogs to win the GPAC tourney title.
For the fifth year in a row, the Concordia Women’s Basketball program has advanced to the GPAC tournament championship game. The Bulldogs are preparing to take on Morningside.
The terrific backcourt trio of Taylor Cockerill, Bailey Conrad and Taysha Rushton exercised control of Saturday (Feb. 27)’s GPAC tournament semifinal in leading a win over Northwestern.
In order to reach the GPAC tournament final for a fifth year in a row, the Bulldogs will have to go through Northwestern. The two programs will go head-to-head in the semifinals on Saturday.
Put this one under the category of a gritty, no frills type of performance. The Bulldogs held Dakota Wesleyan to 31.0 percent shooting in a 70-58 GPAC tournament quarterfinal win.
Winner of four-straight GPAC tournament championships, the 22nd-ranked Bulldogs enter the 2021 postseason as the league’s No. 2 seed. Concordia will host Dakota Wesleyan in the quarterfinals.
All 14 Bulldogs registered in the scoring column while helping the 22nd-ranked Bulldogs to another throttling of Doane on Saturday (Feb. 20). Mackenzie Koepke led Concordia with 17 points.
As a cap to the regular season, the 22nd-ranked Bulldogs will host Doane on Saturday. Concordia has dominated the series, having won 18 of the last 19 and nine in a row.
After totaling 15 points and four steals in the win over Hastings, Taylor Cockerill has been named the GPAC Player of the Week. Cockerill leads the Bulldogs in scoring at 14.6 points per game.
A 26-4 run to close the first half allowed 22nd-ranked Concordia to cruise to a 79-64 win over visiting Hastings on Wednesday (Feb. 10). The Bulldogs celebrated their seniors prior to tipoff.
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."