Shortly after Ohio State University won the inaugural College Football Playoff championship game in January, the Twitter account @ohiovarsity posted a graphic showing that of the 47 student-athletes head coach Urban Meyer recruited, 42 of them had been multi-sport athletes in high school. Current Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carrol used to be head coach…
The men’s and women’s Cobber basketball teams are both looking to build off their MIAC playoff appearances in 2015 as they prepare for the upcoming season. The men’s team will feature eight seniors and plenty of experience. Head coach Rich Glas expects senior Jordan Bolger to be a leader on the team this season. “He’s…
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…
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…
Forty-three years ago, Richard Nixon signed Title IX as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and created gender equality between the men’s and women’s athletic teams at Concordia and nationwide. According to Title IX, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the…
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…
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…
After a majority of Concordia students finish their midterm tests and projects and prepare to leave campus for a four-day recess, what they might not be realizing is that student-athletes will be hanging around campus. Though student-athletes might not get a break from games or practice, the break from school work can come as relief….
When students walk past the coaches’ offices in Memorial Auditorium they find that twenty teams with 27 coaches inhabit those offices. Statistically speaking, Memorial Auditorium falls into the norm of who occupies those offices. According to Acosta and Carpenter’s Women in Intercollegiate Sport 2012 study, women coach 43 percent of women’s teams, 20 percent of…
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…