After a banner 2015 season, the Concordia University track and field teams are poised for more thrills in 2016.
A new season is approaching for Concordia University Track & Field following a 2015 men's outdoor national title. The Bulldogs are ready to get back to action and turn the page, but it's hard not to reminisce about the events that unfolded back in May.
When Kregg Einspahr returned to his alma mater as head coach in 1992, members of the Concordia University track and field programs kicked up rocks while pacing an on-campus gravel track.
Concordia 23-year coaching veteran Kregg Einspahr has garnered his fourth major coaching honor of the 2015 campaign. On Tuesday the Omaha World-Herald named Einspahr its Midlands College Men’s Coach of the Year.
According to a formula designed to rank all collegiate throwing programs, assistant coach Ed McLaughlin’s group trumped every NAIA group of throwers in 2015.
Concordia head track and field coach Kregg Einspahr has raked in another coaching honor after guiding the men’s program to the first national title for any sport in school history. The 23-year veteran garnered Lincoln Journal Star State College Coach of the Year recognition along with Bulldog head women’s basketball coach Drew Olson, as announced on Monday.
This week a letter from the Nebraska State Legislature arrived in the inbox of head coach Kregg Einspahr. Nebraska State Legislative Resolution 371 introduced by Senator Mark Kolterman of District 24, congratulated Einspahr and the Concordia men’s track and field team on winning the 2015 NAIA Outdoor Track and Field national title.
School record holder and GPAC pole vault champion Cassie Starks has received the Inspiration Award from the Nebraska Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation.
On May 23 Concordia University men’s track and field celebrated the first team national title in school history. An underdog in the national title race, the Bulldogs led the meet from start to finish and hung onto the No. 1 spot as part of a tightly-bunched topped four.
Back in Seward after winning the first team national title in the history of Concordia University athletics, Bulldog men’s track and field is soaking up media attention.
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?