The 2021-22 indoor track season will officially kick off Friday and Saturday (Dec. 10-11) as the Bulldogs host the Concordia Early Bird Meet. The meet will feature athletes from eight different institutions.
Concordia Track & Field has reached meet week while readying to host the Bulldog Early Bird. The Bulldogs are coming off 2021 GPAC indoor placements of first on the women's side and third on the men's side.
Ed McLaughlin’s time as a Bulldog began as a student-athlete when he was a standout on the Concordia football and track & field teams. He’s now spent 24 years as an assistant coach with the track program.
All six Academic All-District award winners from Concordia University Track & Field have been upgraded to Academic All-America status. Rachel Battershell and Jacob Cornelio are repeat honorees.
A Concordia alum, Matt Beisel returned to his alma mater as head coach of the cross country and track & field programs in the summer of 2016. He provided insight on many topics in this Q&A.
Forty-eight Bulldogs earned academic honors from the USTFCCCA on Thursday (July 22). Jacob Cornelio and Josie Puelz were recognized as National Scholar Athletes of the Year.
A program record total of six student-athletes represented Concordia University Track & Field with 2020-21 Academic All-District Men's and Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Team accolades.
It had to be God's plan that resulted in Carol Bailey-Moravec landing at Concordia College in 1986. The next four years saw Bailey-Moravec achieve unprecedented success.
Winner of the 2021 NAIA indoor/outdoor pole vault national titles, Josie Puelz has been named the 2021 state college women’s athlete of the year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
The accomplished Addie Shaw earned 11 All-America awards and two national titles in an incredible collegiate career. Shaw provided a reflection on her time at Concordia.
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.