MITCHELL, S.D. – Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball coach Jason Christensen has been looking for a point guard for the 2013-14 season, and Monday afternoon he announced that he found one. Savannah Minder, a junior transfer from Northwest College in Powell, Wyo., signed with the Tigers earlier this month and will join the program in [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team added a name synonymous with sports in South Dakota to its 2013-14 roster this week when Kelsey Little signed with the program for the upcoming season. Little comes to Dakota Wesleyan after a year at Northern State University. Her brothers Brooks and Dustin played basketball [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team is bringing comedian Louie Anderson to the Corn Palace to support the Tiger women’s basketball program. Anderson will perform one show at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at the Corn Palace. Tickets are $50 per set, or $400 per table. Corporate tables are also [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – The first portion of Dakota Wesleyan University men’s basketball coach Shane Murphy’s recruiting class for the 2013-14 season has a distinctly local flavor to it. Headlined by Kimball/White Lake standout Jesse Taylor, three of Murphy’s first four recruits for next season are from within a 50-mile radius of Mitchell, and all four [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – Kim Johnson earned several athletic honors throughout the course of her junior season, but Wednesday afternoon she earned an honor that topped them all. Johnson, a junior on the Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team, earned NAIA All-American Second Team honors, it was announced Wednesday by the NAIA. This is the first [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – After being the only sophomore named to the All-Great Plains Athletic Conference First Team earlier this spring, it was obvious that Jalen Voss’ inside presence and scoring ability was respected within the conference. Wednesday afternoon, it became clear Voss’ ability and talent was noticed throughout the NAIA. Voss, a sophomore forward on [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – Four members of the Dakota Wesleyan University basketball programs and one member of the Tiger wrestling program earned Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors, it was announced recently by the NAIA. Tiger women’s basketball players Amanda Hart, Elizabeth Lamb and Brittany Hills, men’s basketball player James O’Halloran and wrestler Tyler Sarringar all earned scholar-athlete accolades [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – In his first season with the Dakota Wesleyan University men’s basketball team, Jalen Voss was named the Great Plains Athletic Conference co-Freshman-of-the-Year and earned honorable mention accolades in 2011-12. He followed that up with All-GPAC First Team honors in his sophomore campaign, it was announced Wednesday by the league. Voss – the [...]
MITCHELL, S.D. – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team put together its best season in nearly a decade in 2012-13, and that didn’t go unnoticed by coaches around the Great Plains Athletic Conference. The Tigers went 20-11, marking the fourth 20-win season in DWU women’s basketball history. It was the first time since 2003-04 [...]
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – The Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team ended its historic season Wednesday night with an 80-67 loss to Briar Cliff University in a Great Plains Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinal game in Sioux City, Iowa. The Tigers finished the year 20-11, marking just the fourth 20-win season in DWU women’s basketball history. [...]