Posted: Mar 10, 2025
Folkestad And Goss Qualify For Indoor National Meet
MOORHEAD, Minn. (3/10/25)---It will be an experienced veteran and a national newcomer representing Concordia at the NCAA National Indoor Championship Track & Field Meet in Rochester, N.Y. on Mar. 14-15.
Senior Cooper Folkestad (Wadena, Minn./Wadena-Deer Creek HS) and sophomore Brady Goss (Devils Lake, N.D.) have officially been selected to participate in the national indoor meet this weekend.
Folkestad, who will be making his fifth overall NCAA National Meet appearance and third indoor championship trip. Folkestad qualified for indoor nationals last season and in 2022. He also earned All-American honors in 2022.
Folkestad recorded his national qualifying mark in the shot put at the MIAC Indoor Championship Meet when he came through with a mark of 55-07.75. That distance is No.10 on the Division III list this year.
Goss will be making the very first trip to nationals in his Concordia career. He qualified in the mile at last weekend's Wartburg Qualifier meet. He dropped a school-record time of 4:10.20 at Wartburg, which beat his own school record of 4:12.38, which he set at the NDSU Bison Open on Feb. 8.
Folkestad will compete in the prelims of the shot put on Saturday, Mar. 15 at 10 a.m. (cdt) while Goss will run in the first round of the mile on Friday, Mar. 14 at 1:35 p.m. (cdt).
PAST COBBER NCAA INDOOR MEET PARTICIPANTS
2024 - Cooper Folkestad - shot put
2024 - Wade Rhonemus - heptathlon
2023 - Hayden Gagnon - 400 meters
2022 - Cooper Folkestad - shot put
2022 - Tommy Kern - 400 meters
2022 - Jesse Middendorf - 800 meters
2022 - Wade Rhonemus - heptathlon
2022 - Cal Wright - 400 meters
2022 - Cal Wright, Hayden Gagnon, Trevor Tiongson, Colin Schuller - 4x400 meter relay
2019 – Matt Bye – heptathlon
2017 – Jackson Schepp – heptathlon
2009 – Paul Schol – pentathlon
2009 – Paul Westmark – pentathlon
2001 – Joe Schmidgall – high jump
2000 – Micah Benson – long jump
2000 – Adam Strainer – triple jump
1996 – Aaron Banks – shot put, weight throw
1995 – Aaron Banks – shot put, weight throw
1994 – Aaron Banks – shot put, weight throw
1993 - Kyle Johnson - 800 meters
1992 – Jon Ault – weight throw
1992 - Kyle Johnson - 800 meters
1992 – Jason Schlepp – weight throw
1991 – Jon Ault – shot put, weight throw
1990 – Jon Ault – shot put
1990 – Mark Olson – shot put
1990 – Don Worcester – 55-meter hurdles
PAST COBBER NCAA INDOOR MEET PARTICIPANTS
2024 - Cooper Folkestad - shot put
2024 - Wade Rhonemus - heptathlon
2023 - Hayden Gagnon - 400 meters
2022 - Cooper Folkestad - shot put
2022 - Tommy Kern - 400 meters
2022 - Jesse Middendorf - 800 meters
2022 - Wade Rhonemus - heptathlon
2022 - Cal Wright - 400 meters
2022 - Cal Wright, Hayden Gagnon, Trevor Tiongson, Colin Schuller - 4x400 meter relay
2019 – Matt Bye – heptathlon
2017 – Jackson Schepp – heptathlon
2009 – Paul Schol – pentathlon
2009 – Paul Westmark – pentathlon
2001 – Joe Schmidgall – high jump
2000 – Micah Benson – long jump
2000 – Adam Strainer – triple jump
1996 – Aaron Banks – shot put, weight throw
1995 – Aaron Banks – shot put, weight throw
1994 – Aaron Banks – shot put, weight throw
1993 - Kyle Johnson - 800 meters
1992 – Jon Ault – weight throw
1992 - Kyle Johnson - 800 meters
1992 – Jason Schlepp – weight throw
1991 – Jon Ault – shot put, weight throw
1990 – Jon Ault – shot put
1990 – Mark Olson – shot put
1990 – Don Worcester – 55-meter hurdles