Adrianna Shaw hasn't always loved throwing the discus, but it's safe to say it's grown on her. The idea of being a national champion is still sinking in for the latest Bulldog to climb to the top of the podium.
Four Bulldogs represented the Concordia track and field programs on the list of Google Cloud Academic All-District® teams released on Tuesday (May 29). Samantha Liermann is a repeat all-district honoree.
By the time track and field ended for 2018, the Bulldogs had combined for 11 indoor/outdoor All-America awards. The headliners were national champions Samantha Liermann and Adrianna Shaw.
Sixteen Bulldogs, including four repeat honorees, were named to the 2018 Dakronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete list released on Friday (May 25) by the NAIA.
Seeded third entering the national championships, Adrianna Shaw surprised many by winning the title in Saturday (May 26)'s discus competition. The Bulldog women ended up 12th in the national team standings.
A national runner up and school record toss by Samantha Liermann highlighted the second day of the 2018 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships. Concordia has three All-Americans through two days of action.
Jacob Cornelio and Johanna Ragland are the latest Bulldogs to claim All-America awards. They headlined the first day of the 2018 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Outdoor national championship week is upon qualifying members of the Concordia track and field teams. Twenty-six Bulldogs have departed for Gulf Shores, Ala., site of the 2018 meet.
The Concordia track and field programs have announced a national qualifying field of 26 athletes. They will depart on Monday with Gulf Shores, Ala., being the final destination for a championship meet set to start May 24.
Freshman Kennedy Mogul and the women's 4x400 meter relay clocked a season best at Friday (May 11)'s Twilight Meet. It was also a day of PR's for throwers such as Jacob Cornelio, Samantha Liermann and Adrianna Shaw.
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.