With hockey, basketball and swimming all underway in their winter sports seasons, track athletes are starting their preparations for their upcoming season. Olson Forum is filled with athletes galore as the start of the indoor track season took off the week before Thanksgiving break. While the indoor track season is a season all in its…
Wayne Gretzky once said that you miss every shot that you do not take. And if you find yourself shooting against Andrea Klug, you miss almost every shot you do take. The Cobber goalie stopped 102 straight shots over the course of 273 minutes in a shutout streak that spanned four games and the first…
Through the school year, the Cobber community gets the opportunity to enjoy the variety of sports that Concordia has to offer. The audience get to see countless athletes participating in sports that they have partaken in their whole lives. While the audience gets to sit back and watch these athletes in action, those audience members…
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…