Tag: cross country
Fall sports recap
Volleyball After an up and down year, the volleyball team wrapped up its season last weekend with a loss on the road at Saint Benedict. The Cobbers finished one spot behind St. Olaf for a playoff bid with a conference record of 4-7 and finished with the same .364 winning percentage they had last year…
New athletic leadership encourage different thinking
By: Tate Hovland As the sun crawled down the sky, the conversation around the crackling fire intensified. It had been a long day of running, a mile swim in Little Mantrap Lake, and the group was exhausted, but still seemed to enjoy themselves. Looking around the fire, she noticed the numerous new faces; faces…
Women’s cross country season comes to an end
The trees are changing colors meaning the ending of one season and the beginning of another. That is no different in the world of sports. The end is here for the Cobber women’s cross country team as they have already competed in one of their final meets of the season, MIAC championships. Looking at the…
Women’s cross-country team competes with new team dynamic
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…
Fresh faces benefit cross-country team
Only two meets into the season, three new faces from three different backgrounds have already made their mark on the men’s cross-country team. Freshman Luke Lillehaugen has placed fourth amongst Cobbers in both meets. “I was expecting to place pretty well, but I didn’t know I’d be placing as well as I have been,” Lillehaugen…
A race to the finish line
While being one of the more overlooked sports at Concordia, the men’s and women’s cross country teams are both substantially large group that work just as hard as every other team at to achieve their goals. Even though this has been more of a difficult season for both teams due to multiple illnesses and injuries,…
XC teams finish well at NCAA Regional Meet
Cobber cross country gave it their all at the NCAA Central Regional Meet last weekend, with the women finishing 8th, just missing the last Nationals slot, and the men pulling in at 18th. The Cobbers had some tough competition going into the regional meet. Three out of the five top-finishing schools were from the MIAC…
Knickerbocker wins MIAC honor
After a summer of intense training and preparation, Hannah Knickerbocker was named the MIAC Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week on September 5, 2012. Knickerbocker was nominated by women’s cross country coach Marv Roeske for her performance at the Valley City Invite the weekend prior. Setting a new personal best time, Knickerbocker finished in…
XC coach contracts west nile
On July 11, men’s cross-country coach Garrick Larson began feeling fatigued during a run. Larson guessed he might have been coming down with Lyme disease for the second time in two years, but the flu-like symptoms he was experiencing stuck with him for an extended period of time. In just a day, the symptoms became…