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During a championship 2019-20 season, Coach Levi Calhoun's squad swept GPAC regular-season and tournament titles, sent eight qualifiers to nationals and placed 15th in the NAIA.
During a championship 2019-20 season, Coach Levi Calhoun's squad swept GPAC regular-season and tournament titles, sent eight qualifiers to nationals and placed 15th in the NAIA.
In his short time as a Concordia athlete, Farmer produced something that will never be forgotten, even if he did come up just a bit short of the ultimate goal. What he achieved was about more than winning wrestling matches.
Tanner Farmer's bid for a national title fell just short of the mark at the 2020 NAIA Wrestling National Championships. Farmer was one of two Bulldogs to earn All-America honors.
Tanner Farmer and Alberto Garcia have locked up All-America awards while advancing to the semifinals of the NAIA Wrestling National Championships. The Bulldogs are in 13th place as a team.
A group of eight Bulldogs will descend upon Hartman Arena near Wichita, Kan., for the 2020 NAIA Wrestling National Championships. The action will begin on Friday (March 7).
Tanner Farmer (wrestler of the year) and Levi Calhoun (coach of the year) pulled in major honors from the GPAC. Meanwhile, Farmer was one of eight Bulldogs to earn All-GPAC recognition.
Concordia will take eight qualifiers to the 2020 NAIA Wrestling National Championships. The Bulldog qualifying field grew on Tuesday (Feb. 25) when Deandre Chery was announced as an at-large selection.
A season of GPAC dominance was capped on Saturday (Feb. 22) with Concordia earning the conference tournament title behind three individual champions. Seven Bulldogs locked up bids to nationals.
With day one in the books, the 16th-ranked Bulldogs have ownership of first place at the GPAC Wrestling Championship. Nine Concordia grapplers have advanced to the conference semifinals.
With one trophy in hand, the Bulldogs hope to carry over their dual success into the postseason. Concordia will take 12 wrestlers to the GPAC championships hosted by Morningside on Friday and Saturday.
Andrew Nicola, most recently an assistant coach at California Baptist University, has been hired as head wrestling coach at Concordia University. He takes the place of former head coach Dana Vote.
The 2015-16 season was another step forward for the Concordia wrestling program, which finished eighth at the national championships and again dominated the GPAC.
Said Schulte of his national title, "It made sense to me why I sacrificed and trained so many hours of hard work for a moment of being No. 1. That was special to me." Read on for more of Schulte's thoughts.
Junior Andrew Schulte made history on Saturday, becoming the first Bulldog ever to win a national title. As a team Concordia placed eighth at the national championships.
Without even visiting campus, Jr Lule arrived at Concordia, a place where California junior college transfers like himself have thrived. Lule now enters the national championships on a roll.
“Don’t dwell on the results. Stay focused on the process.” That’s the company line continually regurgitated by members of the Concordia wrestling program. It’s that sort of attitude that has provided a foundation for the Bulldogs’ reversal of fortunes.
In yet another dominant outing in the conference, No. 7 Concordia clinched its second-straight GPAC dual title by way of a 32-7 win over Morningside on Feb. 11, 2016.
By just about any measure, the 2014-15 season marked the most successful in the history of Concordia University wrestling. In head coach Dana Vote’s third season, the Bulldogs went a perfect 7-0 in GPAC duals, outscoring their conference rivals by a combined total of 242-59.
Consider the time spent at Santa Ana College a crossroads. Muddled in southern California traffic jams, Andrew Schulte had plenty of time to ponder his next move.
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