2026 Concordia Competitive Dance Schedule
SEWARD, Neb. – The 2026 Concordia University, Nebraska Competitive Dance schedule featuring seven regular season events has been announced. The Bulldogs are scheduled to begin the new campaign by hosting College of Saint Mary for a dual on Jan. 21. That event will kick off a season Head Coach Mandi Maser’s program hopes will conclude with a trip to Topeka, Kan., site of the 2026 NAIA Competitive Cheer & Dance National Championships.
This past 2025 season, Maser’s Bulldogs placed fourth at the GPAC Championships behind First Team All-GPAC honorees in Hanna Bitner and Taylor Larsen. A senior on the 2025-26 roster, Larsen is a two-time NAIA All-American. Concordia finished last season with the eighth highest scoring average in the NAIA (82.27).
The Bulldog dance and cheer programs began hosting their own invite in 2019 and then switched to a duals format in 2022. This season’s largescale home event will revert back to an invitational as Maser and Coach Emilie Aschenbach look forward to hosting the Concordia Cheer & Dance Invitational on Feb. 7. As part of that weekend, the Bulldogs will compete at the York Cheer & Dance Invitational on Feb. 6.
The ’26 slate also features trips to three GPAC campuses for invites, including the Dordt Invitational (Jan. 24), Northwestern Invitational (Feb. 13-14) and Midland Invitational (Feb. 21). Additionally, Concordia will be headed to Salina, Kan., for the Kansas Wesleyan Invite on Jan. 30.
For the first time in the event’s history, Northwestern will host the GPAC Championships. The dance portion of the conference competition will unfold on March 6. For those who qualify, the 2026 season will reach its conclusion with the NAIA National Championships on March 27-28. The location will be the Stormont Vail Events Center in Topeka.