For the third year in a row, linebacker Lane Napier has been named an NAIA All-American by the American Football Coaches Association. He landed on the 2020 All-America second team.
Concordia Football returned to a fairly normal spring practice season this April. Storylines have included the return of Lane Napier, a welcome back to campus for 'G' and the progress of Wyatt Ehlers.
The 2021 Concordia University Football schedule is set. The 11-game regular-season slate will feature six home games, a season opener at Morningside and a nonconference clash with Mayville State.
As of National Signing Day, Head Coach Patrick Daberkow and his staff have secured the pledges of 36 recruits for the class of 2021. The group includes 23 native Nebraskans.
Lane Napier has gone 4-for-4 in terms of landing first team All-GPAC awards. He was joined with all-conference honors by eight teammates, including four fellow first-teamers.
Particularly on the offensive side of the ball, Concordia made strides in a 2020 season that began with four-straight wins. Coach Daberkow took pride in this team for more than just on-field performance.
In a season capping defeat, senior linebacker Lane Napier moved past 400 career tackles. Cayden Beran and Jonah Weyand both found the end zone in the 28-17 loss at Dakota Wesleyan.
In the 2020 finale, the Bulldogs hope to end a current three-game skid and also extend a three-game series win streak over Dakota Wesleyan. This will be the 21st all-time meeting.
The Concordia-Midland football game originally scheduled to be played on Nov. 14 has now been canceled. The contest will not be made up. The Bulldogs will finish their season at DWU on Saturday.
The Concordia football game scheduled to be played at Midland on Saturday (Nov. 14) has been postponed. The two sides will make a decision next week about a potential makeup date.
Crete High School alum Jonah Weyand has his sights set on bigger and better in 2021. More than just a football player, Weyand has excelled as a leader and in the classroom.
Concordia Football returned to a fairly normal spring practice season this April. Storylines have included the return of Lane Napier, a welcome back to campus for 'G' and the progress of Wyatt Ehlers.
Particularly on the offensive side of the ball, Concordia made strides in a 2020 season that began with four-straight wins. Coach Daberkow took pride in this team for more than just on-field performance.
In a year for the history books, the Concordia Football senior class has made the most of it. As Trevor Dey put it, the lasting impact will be "what we've learned and who we're becoming."
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As of Friday (Aug. 28), the 2020 Concordia Football team had successfully navigated through nearly two weeks of preseason preparation. It gets started for real on Sept. 12.
Typically by early August, a GPAC Football Media Day would have been staged. In lieu of that, we break down what things look like for Coach Daberkow's Bulldogs heading into preseason.
Before a home playoff game was made possible, the 2001 Concordia football team burst onto the national scene by upsetting eighth-ranked Sioux Falls in week two of that GPAC championship season.
Singing The Doxology in the postgame locker room is about as Concordia as ringing the bell after victories. It's a Bulldog Football tradition that dates back to at least the 1970s.
Former star quarterback Von Thomas now serves as Concordia's Multicultural Program Specialist and Assistant Director of Student Life. He fielded our questions in this Q&A.