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After breaking the school record in the hammer throw yet again, Cody Boellstorff has picked up his second national weekly award of 2017. A senior from Waverly, Neb., Boellstorff is a three-time national champion.
After breaking the school record in the hammer throw yet again, Cody Boellstorff has picked up his second national weekly award of 2017. A senior from Waverly, Neb., Boellstorff is a three-time national champion.
Concordia's highly-rated track and field squads swept team titles at the NAIA Midwest Quad hosted by Grand View University on Friday (April 14). Bulldog athletes accounted for 11 event titles and Cody Boellstorff broke his own school hammer throw record.
The awards keep piling up for Concordia's nationally-ranked track and field programs. On Wednesday (April 12), Cody Boellstorff, Kali Robb and Lucas Wiechman all picked up weekly awards.
Bulldog athletes combined for nine event titles, four runner-up finishes and a total of 22 automatic national qualifying marks at this weekend's Concordia Outdoor Invitational.
Concordia throwers put on a clinic in the hammer throw with school records either broken or equaled by Cody Boellstorff and Kali Robb. Zach Lurz also recorded a personal best in the event.
Both Concordia track and field teams garnered national rankings with the release of the first NAIA computer rankings by the USTFCCCA. The Bulldog women are ranked fourth and the men are ranked 13th.
The nationally-ranked Bulldogs are getting set to host the Concordia Outdoor Invitational on Friday and Saturday (April 7-8) in what will be their first home appearance of the 2017 outdoor season.
For the second week in a row, Concordia track and field swept GPAC field weekly awards. This week's winners, Zach Lurz and Kali Robb, also were upgraded to NAIA national field athletes of the week, as announced Wednesday (April 5).
Athletes representing Concordia track and field combined for five new automatic national qualifying marks and six event titles at the Reiver Open hosted by Iowa Western Community College.
Due to expected inclement weather on Saturday (April 1), the Hastings Bronco Open has been called off. The Bulldogs are scheduled to host the Concordia Invite April 7-8.
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.