The awards keep flying in for senior standout Lucas Wiechman, who has now swept GPAC Track and Field Outstanding Athlete of the Year awards for 2017. Zach Lurz took home the honor of Men’s Field Performance of the Meet.
The Concordia University track and field programs combined for 10 GPAC event titles and claimed team finishes of second (men) and third (women) at the conference outdoor championships held in Fremont on Friday and Saturday.
Three different Bulldogs combined for four GPAC individual titles on the opening day of the conference outdoor championships. The Bulldog women are leading the GPAC while the men are currently in second.
It’s GPAC week for the top 10 nationally-ranked Concordia track and field squads. After indoor conference placements of second (men) and fourth (women), the Bulldogs have their sights set on moving up the ladder.
After breaking her own school standard at the Drake Relays, sophomore Allie Brooks has once again been named a GPAC athlete of the week. Brooks is currently ranked second nationally in the pole vault.
Allie Brooks continues to star as one of the top female vaulters in the nation. She proved herself amongst a loaded field at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday.
Lucas Wiechman shined in the decathlon and two new automatic qualifying marks were turned in by Bulldog athletes in this week's action. Wiechman and several others are competing at the prestigious Drake Relays.
Twelve athletes will represent the Concordia track and field program at the prestigious Drake Relays. Among the highlights will be Lucas Wiechman's first attempt at the decathlon this outdoor season.
Concordia track and field athletes combined for 19 automatic national qualifying marks on the weekend and claimed eight event titles at the Jim Dutcher Memorial hosted by Doane.
For Concordia, ending a school wide team national championship drought that carried on until May 2015 took the collaboration of a special group of people. It’s this year’s senior class that really took the lead.
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.