Junior transfer joins Tiger women’s basketball program

Jason Christensen

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 [...]

Little to join DWU women’s basketball program

Kelsey Little

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 [...]

Louie Anderson to perform to support DWU women’s basketball

Comedian Louie Anderson will perform at the Corn Palace to support the DWU women’s basketball team Friday, April 26.

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 [...]

Johnson earns Second Team All-American accolades

DWU junior Kim Johnson because the eighth All-American in DWU women’s basketball history Wednesday when she was named to the second team (Photo by Brandi Nekrassoff)

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 [...]

Tiger athletes earn scholar-athlete honors

Amanda Hart from DWU.

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 [...]

Johnson headlines Tigers’ All-GPAC selections

Kim Johnson from DWU.

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 [...]

Hart scores 1,000th point in DWU loss

Kim Johnson from DWU.

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. [...]

Tiger women upset BCU, earn No. 5 seed in GPAC tourney

Kim Johnson from DWU.

MITCHELL, S.D. – Saturday’s win against Briar Cliff University was more than just a win to end the regular season for the Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team. The 96-72 win over the ninth-ranked Chargers was the signature win Dakota Wesleyan has been waiting for all season, and it came at an opportune time. DWU’s [...]

Tiger women fall short against Northwestern

Kim Johnson from DWU.

MITCHELL, S.D. – With 7:28 left to play Wednesday night, the Dakota Wesleyan University women’s basketball team led No. 10 Northwestern College 67-57. The Red Raiders put together a run, and over the next four minutes cut into the Tigers’ lead and took a 75-74 lead on a 3-pointer by Makenzie Small with 2:54 to [...]

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