Concordia’s head baseball coach Chris Coste will once again don a Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks’ jersey, only this time, he will wear it as a coach. Coste was a catcher for the RedHawks from 1996-1999 and later played on the Philadelphia Phillies with whom he won a World Series in 2008. Though Coste has been away from…
For some, hockey is just a sport. For others, it is a way to bring their family closer together, even when games played in different cities physically separate them. Siblings Maddie and Jake Ellingson, both sophomore hockey players at Concordia, have been skating since they could walk. Growing up in Brainerd, Minnesota, winters were spent…
(Based on O Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman) O Vikings! My Vikings! Our championship trek is done; The team has weather’d many a game, but the prize we sought was not won; Some fans are mad, some fans are sad, but few may be exhaling, If not to think of a Super Bowl…
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….
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…
It takes a very steady hand to succeed at Milton Bradley’s Operation board game. It takes an even more steady hand to be an actual surgeon, and only the steadiest of hands get to hold national archery trophies. By day, Chris Wiger is a college student in his junior year at Concordia College double-majoring in…
After 36 years of coaching at Concordia, head baseball Coach Bucky Burgau has reached his 700th career win. It is a large mile marker but Burgau stays focused on the current team’s success. “I am really thankful to Concordia for allowing me to be their head baseball coach for 36 years. Longevity has provided me…
Lacrosse season has officially begun for Concordia College. So far, the women’s lacrosse team has won two of their five games and has traveled across the state for various games. Last weekend the team traveled to Wisconsin and played against the University of Whitewater. Despite losing 8 to 6 against Whitewater, the team is still…
Cobber hockey player, Caleb Suderman, said it was a “dream come true” to be playing professional hockey. The senior from Winkler, Manitoba signed a one-year deal with the Greenville Road Warriors of the East Coast Hockey League back on March 13. The Road Warriors are a minor league affiliate of the New York Rangers of…
A tough schedule and a winning record were in the Cobbers’ favor as they were selected for the NCAA National Tournament Concordia’s Women’s Basketball finished off their season by making it to the NCAA National Tournament. “We set goals at the beginning of the year and being in the National Tournament was definitely one of…