After leading the Bulldog women to a GPAC title, Matt Beisel earned GPAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year honors. Five Bulldog athletes also earned All-GPAC honors via their performances at the conference meet.
After leading the Bulldog women to a GPAC title, Matt Beisel earned GPAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year honors. Five Bulldog athletes also earned All-GPAC honors via their performances at the conference meet.
Says Sydney Clark of winning the GPAC title and qualifying for nationals, "This is making my whole collegiate dream come true." The Bulldogs returned to the top by building a competitive, family atmosphere.
The GPAC champion Concordia women's cross country team is officially an NAIA national qualifier. The Bulldogs earned an automatic berth to the NAIA national stage due to last week's performance.
History was made when the Concordia Women's team took home a first place finish in the GPAC Championship. The men placed fifth and now reflect on an overall positive season.
The Concordia cross country teams enter the GPAC championships with lofty goals. The women are one of the favorites while the men have hopes of outperforming their current GPAC ranking.
After three weeks without a meet, the Bulldogs returned to action and won a title on the women's side and placed third on the men's side while competing at the Mount Marty Invite on Saturday (Oct. 26).
Freshman Baile Vanarsdall has been named the GPAC Runner of the Week. She joins teammates Amie Martin and Rebekah Hinrichs as the third Bulldog to earn the award this season.
It was an unusual meet at the Briar Cliff Invite, but the Bulldogs found positive to take away from Adams Nature Preserve in North Sioux City, S.D. It was the first meet as a nationally-ranked team for the Concordia women.
For the first time since 2015, the Concordia women's cross country team has cracked the NAIA top 25 poll. The Bulldogs checked in at No. 17 in Thursday (Oct. 3)'s release following a first-place claim at the Dean White Invite.
Senior Rebekah Hinrichs starred while leading Concordia to a first-place finish at the Dean White Invite on Sept. 28. As a result, she has been named the GPAC Runner of the Week.
Both Concordia Cross Country teams are preparing themselves to make runs at NAIA national championship berths. Coach Beisel's Bulldogs will be led by the likes of returning national qualifiers Rylee Haecker, Calvin Rohde and Camden Sesna.
Concordia taught Andrew Walquist many lessons on how to build relationships, how to overcome emotional hardship, how to praise Jesus and how to become one of the best competitors in Concordia cross country and track history.
Healthy and mentally rejuvenated, Kearney, Neb., native Camden Sesna has thrived this fall while leading the way for the Bulldogs at every meet. A year after a tough finish to cross country, Sesna sees a positive outlook ahead of him.
While focusing their mentality around the mottos of "step up" and "run as one," the Concordia Cross Country teams are putting behind last season. The Bulldogs have high hopes for 2021.
The Concordia men's and women's cross country teams enter 2020 aspiring to "leave no doubt" as it pertains to their status on the conference and national levels.
Alum Dan Cloeter captured four-straight individual cross country conference championships and later won the first-ever Chicago Marathon. His remarkable career has also included 42 years as a pastor.
Even in the time apart, sophomore-to-be Kylahn Heritage can feel the close bond between her cross country teammates. Heritage is "fired up" for the 2020 season and ready to see her teammates again.
The Concordia women's cross country team closed the gap in 2019 while winning a GPAC title and placing 12th at the NAIA National Championships. This piece details the journey from preseason all the way to nationals.
Cross country teams chock full of key returners are getting set to officially open up their 2018 seasons on Friday night. Head coach Matt Beisel's squads are led by seniors Taylor Grove and Thomas Taylor.
Led by Molly (Engel) Christensen, head coach Kregg Einspahr's 2004 women's cross country team dominated its conference competition, galloped to a national runner-up finish and into the Concordia Athletic Hall of Fame.
