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.
After losing several key pieces from the 2014-15 team that made a run to the national title game, the Bulldogs have reloaded with a balanced approach in 2015-16.
It was only a matter of time before Sarah Harrison Krueger found her way into the Concordia Athletics Hall of Fame.
Since 1992, 14 Concordia women’s basketball teams have appeared at the national tournament with four advancing all the way to the national semifinals. But in 2015, the Bulldogs reached new heights by motoring to the national title game for the first time in program history.
It’s a Tuesday evening in the middle of July and two brothers have reunited over a familiar round, orange and leather-coated object that has been prevalent in their lives since birth. Jarrod Olson, now 41, drives and whirls a pass back out top to Drew Olson, 35, who rises and fires a three. They narrowly miss out on the Olson-to-Olson scoring connection.