A team that loses half of its starters from nearly every position on the field is usually due for the dreaded rebuilding year. Unless it’s the Concordia Women’s soccer team, and they throw a handful of freshman directly into the starting lineup, only to go undefeated for the first six games and garner the No….
Category: Sports
Bobby’s NFL Predictions
I’m late; I’m late for a very important date. The opening week of the National Football League has come and gone, and I haven’t screamed my all-important predictions to the world. But better late than never, as I tell my employers. So here are my predictions, in all of their glory, for each division, both…
Concussions are on the rise
Research and studies on head injuries in sports have placed the spotlight on hockey and football. However, new findings are showing that soccer players are at just as much risk for concussions. According to a recent study in the Journal of Athletic Training, boy’s soccer produces 22 concussions and girl’s soccer produces 36 for every…
Bobby’s sports predictions
Ah, the beginning of another beautiful year in Cobberville, U.S.A. Freshmen are frolicking about campus clutching beanies and books with eyes wide in something between fear and felicity. Upperclassmen have returned in anticipation, leaving the long summer months behind them and looking forward to… well, they probably haven’t decided that yet. But there’s still time,…
Second semester sports round-up
Basketball, swimming, softball, tennis. Whatever your Concordia winter or spring sports persuasion, the Concordian is here to provide you with a recap of this season as well as a forecast for what may be to come as the spring season wraps up: Men’s Baseball: Concordia’s baseball team has experienced major cancellations this season due to…
Ultimate frisbee hits the road
While other Concordia College students fretted over schoolwork, the Ultimate Frisbee club took a road trip last weekend to Omaha, Neb., for a tournament put on by the University of Nebraska—Omaha.
Rowan’s Rant
This column marks my last as a member of the Concordian, and starts the first of many lasts for me at Concordia. As I look back at my time as a Cobber, the thing I am going to miss most is the people here.
Cricket fever comes to campus
A new interest in cricket is underway in the United States, where attention to the “gentlemen’s sport” appeared seemingly overnight.
Swenson receives post-grad scholarship
Senior Erika Swenson has many accomplishments to her name, and she is about to add one more.
Rowan’s Rant
Last week, The Concordian ran my predictions for March Madness 2011. I now offer you my rationale for those predictions.

