Concordia Track & Field will travel 35 athletes to the 2022 NAIA outdoor national championship meet set to be held in Gulf Shores, Ala., May 25-27. The women's program has placed top five at each of the past five national meets.
It's been a fruitful final weekend of pre-nationals action for the Bulldogs, who added three new automatic national qualifying marks at the Loper Twilight on Saturday (May 14). That brings the program total to 26 'A' standards this outdoor season.
Concordia Track & Field continues to trend in the right direction as the outdoor national meet draws nearer. The Bulldogs added four 'A' standards at Friday (May 13)'s Concordia Twilight, which also saw Amy Richert improve in the heptathlon.
For their work last week at the GPAC Championships, Matt Beisel has been named the GPAC Women's Coach of the Year and Jordan Koepke was honored with the GPAC Track Performance of the Meet. Fifty-three Bulldogs earned all-conference recognition.
A pair of twilight meets will serve as the last chance opportunities for Concordia Track & Field athletes. The Bulldogs will host the Concordia Twilight Meet on Friday while looking to put more national qualifying marks on the board.
A banner conference meet saw the Bulldog women capture a seventh-straight GPAC title while seven Concordia athletes claimed individual conference championships and three school records were broken over the weekend.
Three Bulldogs (Zach Bennetts, Josie Puelz and Sarah Ragland) were crowned as GPAC champions on Friday (May 6) as the 2022 GPAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships got started in Crete. The women are in first place heading into day two.
It's the stretch run of the 2022 outdoor season for the Bulldogs, who will be at Doane this weekend for the GPAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Concordia enters the meet leading the conference in seven events.
Eighteen Bulldogs represented Concordia Track & Field over two days of action at the Drake Relays. In closing the weekend, the Bulldog women's 4x400 meter relay placed eighth in the finals of the event.
It was an exhilarating day at the Drake Relays on Friday (April 29) for Concordia women's 4x400 and 4x800 meter relays that both clocked season bests that rank in the top three nationally. A total of 16 Bulldogs were in action on the day.
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