2026 Cobber Men's Track and Field News
Concordia junior Tyler Goss needed to wait almost 10 minutes to find out if he was going to qualify for the finals in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship Meet. In the end, Goss earned the last qualifying spot for the finals after running a 9:07.92 in the first heat of the prelims.
Cooper Folkestad and Tyler Goss were officially announced as qualifiers for the NCAA Division III III Outdoor Track & Field Championship Meet on May 21-23 in La Crosse, Wis.
Juniors Tyler Goss and Ethan Lebrija were the stars of the Concordia show at the UW-La Crosse Final Qualifier Meet. Goss ran a national-qualifying time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase while Lebrija broke the school record in the 200 meters.
Concordia used the arms of its throw crew and the legs of Tyler Goss to move up two spots in the team standings and finish in a tie for fourth place at the MIAC Outdoor Championship Meet.
Tyler Evans became the first Cobber athlete to win the pole vault competition at the MIAC Outdoor Championship Meet and led Concordia on Day 1 of the competition.
Concordia senior Cooper Folkestad is set to compete in only the second home meet of his college track and field career.
It was a beautiful day for track and field and a Senior Celebration Ceremony. Concordia honored its senior before the Cobb Open on Saturday and then had numerous season-best marks and Top 10 MIAC performances during the course of the meet.
Michael Crowder and Josh Peterson completed the 10-event MIAC decathlon on Friday. Crowder had his best two events come on the track and finished in ninth place, while Peterson used the strength of the throwing events to place in the No.15 spot.
It took first-year Cobber athlete Michael Crowder four events to get his mojo going in his first collegiate conference decathlon. Crowder made a huge jump up the leaderboard after the 400 meters and is in fifth place halfway through the MIAC decathlon championship.
Cobber fans needed their GPS app to keep track of Concordia in the annul Drake Relays/Kip Javrin Open/Al Cassell Classic weekend. Despite being in three different places with different groups, and needing a detailed scorecard to keep track of all the times and distances, the Cobbers were able to come away with a school record and several solid performances as they get closer to the MIAC Championship Meet.
Ethan Lebrija, Ryan Richardson and Tyler Evans led Concordia at the SJU Invitational which was moved up from Saturday due to impending typical Minnesota spring weather.
Cooper Folkestad (Sr., Wadena, Minn./Wadena-Deer Creek HS) continues to break record in the throwing circles and also continues to break Cobber records for conference weekly honors.
It was another record-setting meet for the Cobbers at the NDSU Spring Classic in their first full-team competition in the month of April. One record was inevitable, and the other is a weekly occurrence. Tyler Evans broke the school record in the pole vault and Cooper Folkestad obliterated his own school mark in the shot put.
Cooper Folkestad used the strength of his two NCAA Division III-leading marks in the discus and shot put to earn his eighth MIAC Field Athlete of the Week honor.
Cooper Folkestad went to Florida and came away with the top distance in Division III in both the shot put and discus.
Junior Blake Houska and sophomores Ethan Lebrija and Tyler Evans posted event wins to lead Concordia at the outdoor season opener at St. John’s.
