2025 GPAC Outdoor Track & Field All-Conference Release
Special Awards:
· Adrianna Rodencal: 2025 GPAC Outdoor Track & Field Female Athlete of the Year; Women’s Track Performance of the Meet (GPAC record 58.90 in 400 hurdles)
· Abi Wohlgemuth: 2025 GPAC Women’s Field Performance of the Meet (180’ 1” in hammer throw)
SEWARD, Neb. – She did it again. On the heels of an astounding series of performances at the 2025 GPAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Adrianna Rodencal has been named the 2025 GPAC Outdoor Female Athlete of the Year. The announcement came from the league office on Thursday (May 8) in conjunction with other major outdoor awards named by the GPAC. Rodencal is one of 39 athletes from Concordia University, Track & Field to garner outdoor all-conference recognition, based on their efforts at the conference meet in Hastings. Additionally, Rodencal earned the Women’s Track Performance of the Meet award (400 hurdles) and Abi Wohlgemuth pulled in the Women’s Field Performance of the Meet award (hammer throw).
Head Coach Matt Beisel’s squads turned in 2025 GPAC outdoor placements of second on the women’s side and fourth on the men’s side. Beisel’s staff includes full-time assistants Ed McLaughlin and Mark Samuels, pole vault coach Jason Berry, graduate assistants Lia Guigui and Darien Semedo and race walk coach Steve Hoger.
Rodencal took home three of the Bulldogs’ eight GPAC gold medals earned at the conference championships. Rodencal broke GPAC meet records in the 100 hurdles (13.63) and 400 hurdles (58.90) as part of GPAC title-winning races. She also won the 200 meters in the process of scoring 41 team points. Other Concordia GPAC champions were Nathan Baldwin (discus), Emery Gutz (javelin), Jonny Jurchen (5,000-meter race walk), Mayson Ostermeyer (pole vault) and Abi Wohlgemuth (hammer). Both Jurchen and Wohlgemuth posted fresh automatic national qualifying marks at the conference meet. Wohlgemuth’s award winning toss in the hammer came in at 180’ 1.”
Including Rodencal, there are five Bulldogs who earned All-GPAC honors in three or more events. The others are Baldwin, Kayla Kirchner, Adysen McCarter and Isabelle Salters. Baldwin topped the men’s team with 21 points scored at the conference meet. A Seward native, Jurchen now holds GPAC meet records in the race walk for both indoor and outdoor.
The outdoor campaign will continue this Friday-Saturday with the Concordia Twilight and Loper Twilight meets. For more details on those meets, click HERE.
2025 GPAC Outdoor All-Conference
MEN
· Connor Asche – shot put (2nd); hammer throw (4th)
· Nathan Baldwin – discus (1st); hammer throw (3rd); shot put (4th)
· Matthew Boyer – javelin (2nd)
· Carson Fehlhafer – shot put (7th)
· Easton Fries – 400m hurdles (3rd); 110m hurdles (4th)
· Emry Gutz – javelin (1st)
· Luke Hammang – 5,000m race walk (2nd)
· Evan Hill – pole vault (5th)
· Jonny Jurchen – 5,000m race walk (1st)
· Stephen Meisel – javelin (8th)
· Jarrett Miles – 3,000m steeplechase (4th)
· Sam Olson – 5,000m race walk (4th)
· Mayson Ostermeyer – pole vault (1st)
· Trey Robertson – 1,500 meters (7th); 5,000 meters (7th)
· Austen Rozelle – discus (4th); hammer throw (5th)
· Aaron Spivey – triple jump (8th)
· Cole Yunker – 3,000m steeplechase (7th)
WOMEN
· Kennedee Canales – heptathlon (8th)
· Lydia Edmonds – 3,000m steeplechase (6th)
· Abby Gerber – shot put (2nd); hammer throw (8th)
· Ellie Jander – 10,000 meters (6th); 5,000 meters (7th)
· Kayla Kirchner – 4x100m relay (2nd); 4x400m relay (2nd); 400 meters (3rd); 200 meters (7th)
· Tayden Kirchner – 4x400m relay (2nd)
· Carissa Kolle – discus (7th)
· Emma Kucera – heptathlon (5th)
· Emily Loseke – 4x100m relay (2nd); 400 meters (7th)
· Adysen McCarter – triple jump (2nd); 4x100m relay (2nd); 100 meters (8th)
· Hayley Miles – long jump (3rd); triple jump (7th)
· Josi Noble – triple jump (5th); heptathlon (7th)
· Kiki Nyanok – long jump (2nd)
· Addie Reimer – heptathlon (3rd)
· Lillee Richard – pole vault (7th)
· Adrianna Rodencal – 200 meters (1st); 100 hurdles (1st); 400 hurdles (1st); 4x100m relay (2nd); 100 meters (3rd); long jump (6th)
· Isabelle Salters – 4x400m relay (2nd); 100 hurdles (6th); 400 meters (8th)
· Amanda Steinke – high jump (4th); long jump (7th)
· Kayla Svoboda – 100 hurdles (5th); pole vault (6th)
· Trinity Tuls – 4x400m relay (2nd); 400 meters (5th)
· Landrey Walter – 400 hurdles (8th)
· Abi Wohlgemuth – hammer throw (1st)