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.
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.
No. 25 Concordia will celebrate senior day on Wednesday when Hastings will be in town for a 6 p.m. CT matchup. The Bulldogs (16-7, 15-5 GPAC) have won 11 of the past 12 meetings.
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.
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.
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