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Concordia Women's Track & Field swept GPAC weekly awards as Rachel Battershell and Addie Shaw took the honors. Both Bulldog standouts starred at the Concordia Invite.
Concordia Women's Track & Field swept GPAC weekly awards as Rachel Battershell and Addie Shaw took the honors. Both Bulldog standouts starred at the Concordia Invite.
Rachel Battershell starred in three different events in highlighting the Concordia Invite (April 9-10). Bulldog athletes combined for 10 auto marks and 11 event titles.
Following a monster performance at the Bronco Invite, Addie Shaw has been named both GPAC and NAIA National Field Athlete of the Week for the top-ranked Bulldogs.
Concordia Track & Field is getting set to host a meet for the first time this outdoor season. The Bulldogs will be one of seven teams on hand for the Concordia Outdoor Invite (April 9-10).
In an impressive showing, Bulldog athletes combined for 15 automatic national qualifying standards, 15 event titles and two school records at the Bronco Invite.
In the initial set of 2021 NAIA national outdoor rankings, the Concordia women have landed at No. 1 while the men checked in at sixth. The Bulldogs have produced 12 marks that appear on the national list.
National best marks in separate throwing events have led to Jacob Cornelio and Addie Shaw being named GPAC Athletes of the Week. Both Cornelio and Shaw are past national champions.
Four throwers represented Concordia at the Baker Relays on Saturday (March 27) and combined to produce three automatic national qualifying marks. It was the Bulldog debut for Elizabeth Stottlemyre.
In the first outdoor meet of 2021, Bulldog athletes combined for four automatic national qualifying marks, five ‘B’ standards and nine event titles while in action at the Viking Relays.
Fresh off a thrilling 2021 indoor season, the Bulldogs have high hopes for the spring. The roster has been beefed up for outdoor track & field, which is back after a year hiatus in 2020.
A returning national champion in the shot put, Samantha Liermann is one of the few holdovers from the past two years that saw Concordia throwers blow all reasonable expectations out of the water. She's back for more.
Stephanie Tietjen (maiden name Beberniss) blazed a trail for female pole vaulters at Concordia. She was utterly dominant in 2003, winning national and GPAC titles in both the indoor and outdoor pole vault.
It would be difficult to find an athlete with a more impressive résumé than senior Zach Lurz. Says Lurz, "I’m sure I’ll look back in five years and think that this was amazing." Lurz has four national titles to his credit.
An ACL tear as a senior in high school helped Allie Brooks realize just how much the pole vault means to her. Now as a sophomore at Concordia, Allie has taken flight and is living up to the Brooks name.
First-year head coach Matt Beisel finds himself in a unique situation in that he takes over programs that have raised a national championship trophy in back-to-back years. Bulldog track and field has created a climate of high expectation.
Three standout Seward High School seniors made it official on Tuesday (Oct. 25). Anna Baack, Mika Brees and Logan Craig will trade Bluejay blue for Bulldog blue next fall.
We take a look back at the incredible career of Kim Wood, a 2016 graduate and pride of Greeley, Nebraska. Wood won 12 GPAC titles on the track.
Several national qualifying members of the 2016 national championship women's outdoor track and field team provided reflections on just what the accomplishment in Gulf Shores meant to them.
Led by its powerful throwing program, Concordia University track and field has won both a men's and women's team national title over the past two seasons. Just how was the NAIA's top throwing program built?
The Concordia women won a track and field national title for the first time ever while the men finished as a national runner up at the 2016 outdoor championships. Individually, Zach Lurz won the shot put title.