Every year from January to April, loads of Concordia students show up on Sundays to compete for intramural basketball glory. Although this past Sunday marked the first round of playoff action in the 2017 Concordia College intramural basketball season, plenty had already happened during the regular season. Three teams, one men’s and two women’s,went undefeated…
Author: Brady Drake
Review: NFL Signings
The offseason landscape is still taking shape, the draft is just around the corner and players like Adrian Peterson and Tony Romo are still looking for new homes. However, the first wave of major transactions are in the books. Some teams have found gems and some have wasted loads of cash on players that will…
Three pairs of sisters bond over running track together
Athletes frequently refer to their teammates as family. For six members of the Concordia College Women’s Track and Field team, a teammate may actually be a family member. This season there are three pairs of siblings on the team, Mikayla and Miriah Forness, Marissa and Kara Andersen, and Colleen and Elizabeth Vought. Each pair has…
Revisiting former Viking and Cobber athlete Gary Larsen
Seven players from Concordia have made regular season rosters in the NFL, but only one made multiple pro bowls in his career — Gary Larsen. Larsen’s two pro bowl selections in 1969 and 1970 and three super bowl appearances give him the distinction as having the most accomplished professional football career in the history of…
Women’s softball thrives with the help of new coach
Concordia softball has finished in the bottom four of the MIAC since 2011. They have not finished in the top four of their conference since 2002, but things are undoubtedly beginning to change. In 2015 the Cobbers went 13-24, posting double digit wins for the first time since 2010. Last year the Cobbers had a…
Men’s baseball returns two starters for 2017 season
The Cobbers baseball team is only on its second week of practice but things are already starting to sharpen up. The team is coming off of an 11-9 conference record and 21-18 overall record in 2016. Eleven wins was not quite good enough for the postseason as the Cobbers finished fifth in the conference standings…
Men’s hockey midseason update, 5th in conference
With four games remaining in the regular season, the playoff push is in full effect for the Concordia College Men’s Hockey team. The Cobbers are 12-8-1 overall and are currently fifth in the conference with a conference record of 6-5-1 good for 20 points on the season. The top five teams in the conference standings…
Profile on women’s assistant hockey coach, Brian Lee
It’s 8 p.m. on a Wednesday night and Brian Lee is performing at the Moorhead Sports Center, but he isn’t performing for the hundreds of fans who would turn out for his high school contests. The seats are empty except for a middle-aged straggler who is waiting for the ice to open, but Lee isn’t…
Gregoire sees conference championship in the future for women’s hockey team
With a record of 5-2-1, the Cobber Women’s hockey team is off to their best eight game start in five years. The team, composed of both a strong senior and freshman class, is looking to make history by delivering the school its first conference title in women’s ice hockey. The head coach, Jason Gregoire, believes…
Fantasy football takes Concordia by storm
If you play fantasy football you know how unpredictable it can be. You can lose while having a good week, win while having a bad week, or just have a generally terrible or great team due to the games unpredictability. Wyatt Lautt, a sophomore here at Concordia, is a victim of unpredictability. Although he has…









