SEWARD, Neb. – Factoring in both indoor and outdoor, 18 Concordia University track and field athletes earned NAIA All-America honors in 2019. Twelve of those award winners were All-Americans in indoor and outdoor. The list includes 2019 outdoor national champions Samantha Liermann (shot put) and Addie Shaw (discus). The complete group of 2019 All-Americans can be viewed below.
Together, the athletes that collected plaques helped the Bulldogs to 2019 national championships place finishes of ninth (indoor) and fifth (outdoor) on the women’s side and ninth (indoor) and 31st (outdoor) on the men’s side. The fifth-place outdoor claim for the women was its highest since the program captured a team national title in 2016.
The 2019 team leaders for total All-America awards all recorded three top-eight national finishes in 2019: Liermann, Josiah McAllister, Jacee Pfeifer and Shaw. Liermann and Shaw have been major contributors to a throws group that has now seized 16 individual national titles since the start of 2014. Liermann and Shaw are two of five Concordia throwers all-time with multiple national championships.
Eleven of this year’s Concordia All-America awards came in the throws. Pole vaulters were responsible for six All-America honors while the Bulldog women’s 4x400 meter and men’s 4x800 meter relays were All-Americans for both indoor and outdoor.
2019 Concordia All-Americans
Rachel Battershell
INDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (3rd)
OUTDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (6th)
Jacob Cornelio
INDOOR – weight throw (2nd)
OUTDOOR – hammer throw (6th)
Gavin DeHaai
OUTDOOR – pole vault (7th)
Leah Larson
INDOOR – triple jump (7th)
Sarah Lewis
INDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (3rd)
OUTDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (6th)
Samantha Liermann
INDOOR – shot put (7th)
OUTDOOR – shot put (1st); discus (4th)
Erin Mapson
INDOOR – pole vault (4th)
OUTDOOR – pole vault (4th)
Nathan Matters
INDOOR – 4x800 meter relay (6th)
OUTDOOR – 4x800 meter relay (4th)
Josiah McAllister
INDOOR – 1,000 meters (4th); 4x800 meter relay (6th)
OUTDOOR – 4x800 meter relay (4th)
Tristen Mosier
OUTDOOR – pole vault (8th)
Jamie Nikodym
INDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (3rd)
OUTDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (6th)
Jacee Pfeifer
INDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (3rd); pole vault (T-5th)
OUTDOOR – 4x400 meter relay (6th)
Johanna Ragland
OUTDOOR – hammer throw (5th); shot put (8th)
Addie Shaw
INDOOR – weight throw (4th)
OUTDOOR – discus (1st); hammer throw (7th)
Thomas Taylor
INDOOR – 4x800 meter relay (6th)
OUTDOOR – 4x800 meter relay (4th)
Christian Van Cleave
INDOOR – 4x800 meter relay (6th)
OUTDOOR – 4x800 meter relay (4th)
Carley Weisser
OUTDOOR – discus (6th)
Cody Williams
INDOOR – heptathlon (2nd); pole vault (5th)