With fall in the air and the leaves starting to fall, the Cobber women’s volleyball season is officially underway. Led by head coach Tim Mosser, the young team looks to grow in conference play and find themselves in the playoffs come November. After suffering its worst losing season of the past two decades last year,…
Author: Abby Sharpe
Abby is a junior majoring in Business with a concentration in Marketing and a minor in English Writing. She enjoys attending sporting events, making bets, and winning. This is her first year on the Concordian team!
Cobber soccer teams go abroad
The Concordia men’s and women’s soccer teams each went abroad this August to explore, travel, and of course, play soccer. The men’s team adventured to Hungary and Czech Republic while the women’s team explored towns throughout Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Ireland. Every three years, the soccer teams are promised an international trip as a team…
Table Tennis Club hosts first fall tournament
Last Saturday, Dec. 2, Concordia College Table Tennis Club hosted their first fall tournament. With 22 entrants, Olson Forum was buzzing with competition. After a morning of battles, David Schneck, current vice president of the club, took home the championship title of the first Table Tennis Club tournament. Schneck beat out club president Matthew Engum,…
Wrestling off to strong start
For many, Thanksgiving is a time of celebration, and the members of the Concordia College wrestling team went into Thanksgiving break with some early season success to compliment their holiday cheer. The Cobbers opened their season with a 22-18 win over Minnesota State University Moorhead on Nov. 14, then placed seven wrestlers in the top-four…
10-3 loss to St. John’s tackles football playoff hopes again
This past Saturday, Nov. 11, the Cobber football team lost 10-3 to the St. John’s Johnnies in the last regular season game of the year. The game was a must-win for both teams if they wanted to extend their seasons. Both teams had lost to the University of St. Thomas earlier in the season, leaving…
Volleyball looks to build young team
The basketball teams have taken over Memorial Auditorium, and the volleyball team has wrapped up their 2017 season. They played their last game of the season on Saturday, Oct. 28, finishing the match with a 3-1 loss to the College of Saint Benedict. The volleyball team finished the season 7-15 overall and 4-7 in conference play,…
Vesta creates culture in the training room
For assistant athletic trainer Kathleen Vesta, athletes are more than just patients. In her five years training primarily baseball, basketball, and men’s and women’s soccer, Vesta has developed relationships with countless Cobber athletes. Though Vesta never attended Concordia as a student, she completed her graduate assistant work at Concordia while attending North Dakota State University….
Transfer athletes find home at Concordia
Not every Concordia graduate spends all four years on campus. Instead, a number of Cobbers first spend time at another school before transferring to Concordia. Transfer student athletes are no different, arriving to school with their maroon beanies and unique stories of how they decided Concordia College was the place for them. Junior men’s basketball…
Men’s golf team concludes fall season at MIAC championship
Just five weeks after starting, the Cobber men’s golf team closed their 2017 fall season at the MIAC Championship Meet where they finished sixth of ten MIAC teams. On Oct. 2nd, the 2017 team finished their fall season down four shots per round from last year. Head Coach Joe Christianson was pleased to see the…
Lindsay Dusek makes fitness fun with Zumba
On Tuesday night, Olson Forum filled with students and the sound of pop music. At the front of the room was senior Lindsay Marie Dusek of Lindsay Marie Fitness, leading the group through routines of salsa, merengue, and hip-hop moves. Dusek leads semi-regular Zumba classes on campus, sponsored by Concordia Events Commission. She has spent…