Yet another postseason accolade has come in for Josie Puelz. The four-time national champion collected a major award from the USTFCCCA, which also named 42 Bulldogs as All-Academic Athletes.
Recently named the Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for NAIA women's track & field, Josie Puelz has also been recognized as the 2022 Midlands Female Athlete of the Year by the Omaha World-Herald.
Jacob Jennings and Zach Bennetts have been honored as the fourth and fifth 2021-22 Academic All-America award winners from Concordia Track & Field. Jennings garnered his second career Academic All-America honor from CoSIDA.
Four-time national champion Josie Puelz earned yet another major award when she was named the 2021-22 Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year in the NAIA. Teammates Rachel Battershell and Erin Mapson were also recognized.
The Ragland-Concordia connection dates back to 1986 when John Ragland enrolled at Concordia. John and his daughters Johanna and Sarah boast 10 combined All-America awards, but Concordia's meaning to them isn't about the accolades.
Courtesy of their performances at the 2022 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships, 17 Bulldogs have earned All-America honors. The list includes four-time national champion Josie Puelz and 10-time All-American Rachel Battershell.
For the sixth-straight national meet, the women’s program for Concordia Track & Field has placed inside the top five of the NAIA. Between men and women, 17 Bulldogs came away with All-America awards in one or more events.
A group of five Bulldogs from the Concordia University Track & Field program have been honored for their academic and athletic excellence. The Academic All-District award winners include Rachel Battershell, Zach Bennetts, Jacob Jennings, Erin Mapson and Josie Puelz.
The second day of the 2022 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships ended in thrilling fashion for Concordia, which had both of its 4x400 meter relays break school records and qualify for the finals of the event.
Josie Puelz reigned atop the NAIA pole vault world once again while claiming one of four All-America awards won by Bulldogs on Wednesday (May 25). Other All-Americans were hammer throwers Alli Owings, Sarah Ragland and Chris Wren.
The 2018 Concordia track and field roster has a different look with the loss of an accomplished senior class and the arrival of the program's largest ever recruiting class. Expectations remain high.
A returning national champion in the shot put, Samantha Liermann is one of the few holdovers from the past two years that saw Concordia throwers blow all reasonable expectations out of the water. She's back for more.
Stephanie Tietjen (maiden name Beberniss) blazed a trail for female pole vaulters at Concordia. She was utterly dominant in 2003, winning national and GPAC titles in both the indoor and outdoor pole vault.
It would be difficult to find an athlete with a more impressive résumé than senior Zach Lurz. Says Lurz, "I’m sure I’ll look back in five years and think that this was amazing." Lurz has four national titles to his credit.
An ACL tear as a senior in high school helped Allie Brooks realize just how much the pole vault means to her. Now as a sophomore at Concordia, Allie has taken flight and is living up to the Brooks name.
First-year head coach Matt Beisel finds himself in a unique situation in that he takes over programs that have raised a national championship trophy in back-to-back years. Bulldog track and field has created a climate of high expectation.
Three standout Seward High School seniors made it official on Tuesday (Oct. 25). Anna Baack, Mika Brees and Logan Craig will trade Bluejay blue for Bulldog blue next fall.
We take a look back at the incredible career of Kim Wood, a 2016 graduate and pride of Greeley, Nebraska. Wood won 12 GPAC titles on the track.
Several national qualifying members of the 2016 national championship women's outdoor track and field team provided reflections on just what the accomplishment in Gulf Shores meant to them.
Led by its powerful throwing program, Concordia University track and field has won both a men's and women's team national title over the past two seasons. Just how was the NAIA's top throwing program built?