Following a GPAC championship season in 2023, Ben Boldt has been honored by the Omaha World-Herald as its 2023-24 Midlands College Female Coach of the Year. The team rose as high as No. 1 in the national poll.
Concordia Volleyball continues to lead the nation for consecutive AVCA Team Academic Awards. The string moved to 26 with another honor from the volleyball coaches' association for 2023-24.
The string of fifth-year stars for Bulldog Volleyball will continue as Gabi Nordaker returns this fall. The volleyball-crazed Nordaker could not pass up one more year of strengthening relationships with her teammates.
The 2024 'Kobe Year' will be about grit for a Concordia Volleyball team coming off one of the most successful seasons in program history. The Bulldogs began the reloading process this spring without a pair of All-Americans.
The 2024 Concordia Volleyball season will kick off prior to the start of the 2024-25 academic year. The Bulldog Bash, Columbia Quad and CSM Labor Day Classic will precede another grind through the GPAC.
Fifth-year Bulldogs Bree Burtwistle and Camryn Opfer earned high honors from College Sports Communicators. The two standouts were named Academic All-Americans by CSC.
In recognition of her tremendous season, Bree Burtwistle was named the honorary captain of the Omaha World-Herald's 2023 All-Midlands Team. Burtwistle was one of seven Bulldogs honored by the World-Herald.
For the second year in a row, the Concordia Volleyball program has placed exactly four team members on the Academic All-District Team, as selected by College Sports Communicators. Three Bulldogs are repeat award winners.
Concordia Volleyball tied for the most 2023 All-Americans of any NAIA program with three honorees. The award winners are Bree Burtwistle, Camryn Opfer and Gabi Nordaker, all repeat All-Americans.
While the season ended abruptly, the 2023 Concordia Volleyball team achieved great heights in rising to No. 1 in the NAIA coaches' poll, setting a program record for win percentage and sharing the GPAC regular season title.
By embracing the idea of 'being the woman,' Emmie Noyd's career has taken off and has helped lift Concordia volleyball to new heights. The first team All-GPAC performer now gets set for an appearance at nationals.
The 2019 Concordia volleyball team has made history as the first in program history to advance all the way to the final site of the NAIA National Championship. The announcement came on Monday (Nov. 18).
The process of seeing out a vision for Bulldog volleyball is ongoing for a program guided by head coach Ben Boldt. Concordia is working to embrace the motto 'this is us' and take ownership of everything good and bad.
Ben and Angie Boldt feel right at home on the volleyball courts of Nebraska. The husband-wife coaching duo got its start working as students for John Cook at Nebraska. The Nebraska foundation is their foundation.
The 2018 team's best run of volleyball came at the end of the season. That leap forward provided optimism that the program has truly embraced the #champsb4champs moniker. Concordia hopes to use it as a springboard.
Says head coach Ben Boldt of his team's early success, "I didn’t exactly know what the competition level was going to be like. We’re really just focused on ourselves right now and trying to be a better team."
It’s a fascinating new world for the Concordia University volleyball program, still working to identify itself in a new era. Head coach Ben Boldt is on the brink of making his debut as leader of the Bulldogs.
We wrap up the spring volleyball season with insights from head coach Ben Boldt on the changing dynamics within the program. The Bulldogs emphasized speed and urgency during the volleyball-filled spring.
Members of the Bulldog volleyball program say they're training like they've never trained before while embracing a new opportunity with head coach Ben Boldt. Said Tara Callahan, "Everyone’s a little fired up."
A native of Hickman, Neb., Ben Boldt is returning home to become head volleyball coach at Concordia. His wife Angie has also been named an assistant coach on the staff. Ben and Angie previously coached at Hendrix College.