The waters of the pool are continuing to ripple as the Cobber women’s swimming and diving team pushes forward through their season. This year is head coach Talia Butery’s second season where she continues to make the program into a mighty force to be reckoned with. “I expect our athletes to continue to grow as…
Author: Aubrie Odegaard
Athletes relocated to accommodate Christmas Concerts
With the holiday season around the corner, Concordia prepares to host its annual Christmas concert. When looking back through time, the Christmas concert has been a part of Concordia’s history for as long as anyone can remember. This means that the athletic department has been forced out of their home, Memorial Auditorium, for just as…
Indoor track athletes prepare for outdoor track season
With hockey, basketball and swimming all underway in their winter sports seasons, track athletes are starting their preparations for their upcoming season. Olson Forum is filled with athletes galore as the start of the indoor track season took off the week before Thanksgiving break. While the indoor track season is a season all in its…
No athletic trainer, no athlete
Through the school year, the Cobber community gets the opportunity to enjoy the variety of sports that Concordia has to offer. The audience get to see countless athletes participating in sports that they have partaken in their whole lives. While the audience gets to sit back and watch these athletes in action, those audience members…
Men’s hockey team sets goal of MIAC championship
Campus is covered with an array of auburn and gold leaves as the temperatures continue to decline. With the end of fall and winter soon approaching, that can only mean one thing: hot chocolate, scarves, mittens — hockey. Even though the ground is lacking in the snow department and it may not feel like hockey…
Women’s volleyball season finishes fifth in the MIAC
While the autumn colors begin changing to bare trees and soon-to-be snow, Cobber nation starts to say its goodbyes to the 2015 fall sports. One goodbye that came too soon was that of the volleyball season. On Nov. 3, the volleyball squad made the trek down to St. Mary’s University where they faced up against…
Cobber SID: The man behind Concordia’s athletic department
COBBS WIN! COBBS WIN! Everyone actively involved in the Cobber athletic community has seen this phrase on countless occasions on a variety of platforms: Twitter, Facebook and sometimes even Instagram. Up until that final victory tweet, the Cobber community is receiving live stats from an online account, Cobber SID. But who is Cobber SID? Who…
Women’s cross-country team competes with new team dynamic
Every year, student-athletes graduate and sports teams are left to figure out how to fill empty holes. According to head women’s cross-country coach Marvin Roeske, for their team, it was a whole new turnover from last year to this year. Last year, all but one of the top nine runners were unable to compete in…
Student athletes aim to balance school and sports
The term student-athlete is a loaded classification that some may not fully understand. For the four years that these students are pursuing a degree, they have a 40-plus hour a week “job” so that they can maintain that status of a student-athlete. If one were to look into the schedule of an athlete, one would…
Queen trades crown for winning header
Not many are fortunate enough to be crowned royalty for a week, but senior soccer player Sadie Hayes was. After being crowned homecoming queen at Coronation Sept. 28, Hayes hit the ground running. While being queen didn’t excuse her from her anatomy exam earlier in the week, it did give her the privilege of starting…