This past Saturday, April 7, Johnny Manziel played in a game for the first time since 2015, taking the field for the South Team in the Spring Football League. Few football players past and present have the starpower to garner national attention for playing less than a full game in an upstart developmental football league…
Jeff Bretherton has resigned as Concordia’s athletic director, less than a year after accepting the position on May 1, 2017. Bretherton was the first full-time athletic director in Concordia’s history. Concordia released a statement last Wednesday stating, “Effective April 4, Jeff Bretherton has resigned his position and will no longer serve as Athletic Director at…
Usually, college wrestling meets are reserved for members of collegiate teams. However, the Finn Grinaker Cobber Open, held Nov. 18, allowed for wrestlers not affiliated with a school to enter as unattached contestants. Although Derrick Grieshaber, a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Concordia College, had not wrestled since his sophomore year as an undergraduate in…
Though the team success of the Concordia College swimming and diving team has been limited by its roster size over the last few seasons, a number of individuals and relay teams have managed to set records for the Cobbers. Between 2016 and 2017, seven school records were broken. Although only one of those record setters,…
Though temperatures have dropped below the freezing point, Concordia’s Cross Country teams are still running. To the average person, it may seem like they never stop running. While this is partially true, most cross country athletes are logging miles nearly every day of the year, there is an end to the cross country season. For…
For the past two seasons, Concordia’s Swimming and Diving team has really just been a Swimming team. Unable to keep a diver on the roster for the regular season, Concordia entered most meets at a disadvantage since they had to forfeit two events: the three meter dive and the one meter dive. Gary Fisher, who…
This Saturday, four new names will be added to the Concordia College Athletic Hall of Fame. One of the four inductees, Jim Cella, has managed to make a positive impact on all 20 of the school’s athletic programs despite never having competed as an athlete for Concordia College. Cella is the only non-former Cobber athlete…
The heads have been counted, the numbers are in, and first-year enrollment is up. This year, 568 freshmen were enrolled at the start of the semester, 264 of which are student athletes. Over 40 percent of the incoming freshman class came in as a member of at least one athletic team on campus. This number…
For some athletes, moving on from the field, court, rink, or track of their hometown high school to college athletics is a given. They are heavily recruited and have a myriad of options to choose from at the next level. For others looking to extend their playing career, things are much less certain. In recognition…
Isaac Toivonen is the backbone of Concordia College Men’s Tennis. So far this season, he’s accounted for over a third of the team’s singles wins but what he wants most of all is to bring his team up with him. The Cobbers Men’s Tennis team is currently in the bottom three of the conference standings…