Athletics News
Opening its season on Thursday in Mt. Pleasant, TX, the No. 16-ranked Cowley College baseball team played a pair of tight contests against Northeast Texas Community College. After dropping a hard-fought 4-3 decision in game one, the Tigers bounced back to defeat the Eagles 4-2 in 13 innings in game two.
Putting a cap on a dominating run through the Jayhawk Conference, the No. 10-ranked Cowley College wrestling team defeated Neosho County 52-0 and host Barton County 41-9 on Thursday in Great Bend, KS. With the wins, the Tigers captured the program’s second conference title and first since 2020, going 7-0 in conference duals.
Playing at conference foe Coffeyville Community College on Wednesday, the Cowley College men’s basketball team got out-scored by 15 points in the second half of an 84-67 road defeat.
Missing a few players due to illness, the Cowley College women’s basketball team found points hard to come by in a 60-39 loss at Coffeyville on Wednesday.
Travis Hafner, an All-American member of the 1997 Cowley College JUCO World Series-winning baseball team and a 12-year Major League Baseball veteran, was among those inducted into the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2025 on Saturday in Wichita, KS.
Finishing as the highest NJCAA competitor while placing second in the pole vault at the Wichita State University Coach Wilson Invitational, Cowley College freshman Kaden Berry was recently named the Jayhawk Conference Men’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Week.
Getting numerous national qualifying performances and heat wins on Friday and Saturday, the Cowley College men’s and women’s track and field teams did well while having the majority of its athletes take part in the Wilson Invite at Wichita State University, and a handful of others competed at the Washburn University Open and Multis in Topeka, KS.
The Cowley College men’s tennis team opened the 2026 spring tennis season by competing at NCAA Division II Washburn University on Sunday in Topeka, KS. The Tigers found wins hard to come by against the No. 8-ranked Ichabods, but did some good things in the 9-0 loss.
Facing a Washburn University squad that is ranked No. 13 in NCAA Division II, the Cowley College women’s tennis team learned a lot about itself in the 9-0, season-opening loss on Sunday in Topeka, KS.
Getting a season-high 15 points from freshman Aven Mboule on 5-of-6 shooting from three-point range, the Cowley College men’s basketball team shot 55.7 percent from the floor in an 83-66 victory over Colby on Saturday inside W.S. Scott Auditorium.
For the second game in a row, the Cowley College women’s basketball team held the lead in the contest’s final minute of play before losing. This time, Colby out-scored the Lady Tigers 8-0 over the final 1:37 of play to come from behind and win 60-58 on Saturday inside W.S. Scott Auditorium.
After seven straight top-five national finishes, the Cowley College men’s tennis team will be led by several new faces during the 2026 tennis campaign.
Blistering the nets, the Cowley College men’s basketball team scored 53 second-half points to break a halftime tie and pick up an important 95-86 win at Cloud County on Wednesday in Concordia, KS.
Rallying from a 15-point halftime deficit, the Cowley College women’s basketball team appeared on its way to a road win at Cloud County on Wednesday before the T-Birds rattled off nine straight points in the final minute to win 69-65.
Having won a national championship to go along with two national runner-up finishes in the last three seasons, the Cowley College women’s tennis team is poised to go after another title in the 2026 season.
The No. 10-ranked Cowley College wrestling team ran its dual winning streak to six with victories of 26-19 over No. 8-ranked Pratt and 34-18 over Fort Hays Tech Northwest on Tuesday in Pratt, KS. With the wins, the Tigers moved within two more dual wins of achieving its first conference title since 2020.