The wrestling team went 3-0 at its own Desert Duals in Las Vegas over the holiday break, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Kyle Briggs '21, an All-American on the Wartburg wrestling team, recounted to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier how he couldn't pass up a unique challenge while in high school: deciding to run a marathon and then doing it the same day.
The men's basketball team fell 92-79 versus Central, as reported by the Marion County Tribune.
The women's basketball team beat Central 103-69, as reported by the Marion County Tribune.
Lee Nelson discussed the 2019 Christmas with Wartburg concert with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The football team beat Hope College 41-3 in the first round of the NCAA Division III football playoffs, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Carina Collet ’21 earned All-American status, and the women's cross country team placed sixth at the NCAA Division III cross country championships, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The football team finished its season 9-1 and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs where the Knights will face Hope College, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren shared her Medicare-for-all plan, corruption, and a wealth tax with Northeast Iowa voters during a campaign stop at Wartburg, as reported by the Washington Post, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier and Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The football team secured a share of the American Rivers Conference football championship with a 48-7 win over Loras, a reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The football team came up one point short in a 57-56 shootout versus Central College, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The football team improved to 8-0 on the season with a 21-7 victory over Coe, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The men's and women's cross country teams swept the American Rivers Conference titles and crowned individual champions at the conference championships, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The wrestling team is looking to avenge its sixth place finish at national in 2019 with a strong season featuring several returners and a few new faces, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The women's basketball team will open the season ranked No. 3 in the first Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division III rankings, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The City of Trumbull celebrated Cross Cannone Day, in honor of Cross Cannone ’19, a three-time Division III All-American and standout high school wrestler, on Oct. 28, as reported by the New Canaan Advertiser.
The extensive list of academic and athletic accomplishments of Kolin Schulte ’20 were recounted by a columnist for the Anamosa Journal-Eureka.
Angela Weekley ’96 talks about her role promoting diversity and inclusion in the community and in her professional life at Veridian Credit Union with the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Though the Wartburg football team boasts 27 returning seniors and was picked to finish first in the conference in a preseason poll, the battle for a new starting quarterback is expected to continue into the start of the season, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Max Chinnah ’15, founder of Terraoak, is preparing a sales launch for a portable and smokeless cookstove that was originally designed while Chinnah was a Wartburg student for the Davis Projects for Peace program. Terraoak will donate cookstoves to farmers in rural Kenya, which could decrease the number of people who die each year from the respiratory ailments they suffer from cooking over an open fire in a confined space, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The Wartburg football team was picked to win the American Rivers Conference in the preseason coaches' poll, as reported by KWWL.
Pat Grau ’11 is a third-generation forester at a sawmill owned by his established by his grandfather in 1948, as reported by the Clayton County Register.
Jenny Kordick ’10 was named the first full-time executive director for Maine Outdoor Brands, a trade group that advocates for the state's outdoor recreation industry, as reported by Maine Biz.
Fikiswayinkhosi Nkambule ’21 was featured as the up and coming artist in the Swazi Observer for his continued passion for percussion.
Fred Waldstein ’74 weighed in on political trackers for a story in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Mike and Marge McCoy were named the 2019 Philanthropists of the Year by the Door County Community Foundation.
Victor, a service dog named in honor of the college's official mascot, Sir Victor, graduated from in-training to a full-fledged service dog on June 29, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. Victor was trained by alums Les ’87 and Marit Scherer ’88 Beisner and their twin sons Noah ’20 and Luke ’20.
Logan Merley ’20 is directing the Sheldon High School Summer Theatre's production of "Murder, Ahoy!", as reported by The N'West Iowa Review.
Rebecca Jennings-Boyer ’15, a board certified music therapist, is using her gifts to bring peace to those in the final stages of their life, as reported by KSFY.
Suzanne Heseman Behnke ’97 was chosen as the IowaWatch executive director, as reported by IowaWatch, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, the Iowa City Press Citizen, and the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Former Wartburg wrestler Punahele Soriano ’14 earned a UFC contract after going 6-0 in his professional MMA career, as reported by Hawaii News Now.
Alexis Thomas ’05 recently purchased The Write Place, a marketing and publishing firm, as reported by KNIA/KRLS.
Steve Timm ’90, a leader in avionics at Collins Aerospace, talked about the future of the industry with the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Dakota Hottle ’15 was awarded one of nine 2019 Iowa Veterinary Medical Association Foundation Sustaining Involvement with the IVMA Scholarships, as reported by the Osceola Sentinel Tribune.
Coach emeritus Jim Miller will become the next director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Des Moines Register, and KWWL.
Tom Trygstad ’95 led the Valley High School boys track team to its third consecutive state Class 4A team title, as reported by the Forest City Sentinel.
Jacob Oswald ’10 put his name on a bone marrow registry during a Dance Marathon event at Wartburg in 2015. One year ago he donated to an infant in Nebraska, and he will soon meet the child, according to KCRG.
Dan ’95 and Jennifer Digmann fell in love in 2002 and have spent the subsequent years sharing their stories of hope to others living with multiple sclerosis, as reported by People Magazine.
Dr. Elisabeth Erickson ’97 has helped grow McKendree University's sport management program after becoming its first full-time faculty member in 2014.
Max Chinnah ’15, CEO and founder of Terraoak, and Godwin Attigah ’18 are preparing to launch their smokeless cookstove in the U.S. camping market in hopes of proving its viability and to start driving revenue, which will allow them to sell the product in third world countries, as reported by Clay and Milk.
"Tides of Resolution," an original composition by Jared Barnes ’05, was premiered by the Sheldon Middle School band, under the direction of Jeana Larson ’01, as reported by the Northwest Iowa Review.
Bob Bunting ’66 entered his 50th softball season — all at Lisbon High School — this season, as reported by the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Brian ’93 and Renee Benzel ’93 Bernhard run Foster Source, a nonprofit that provides support to foster parents, as reported by CBS Denver.
The softball team defeated Northwestern before falling to Wisconsin-Eau Claire in the NCAA Division III tournament, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The Wartburg track and field teams swept the American Rivers Conference titles, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The men's 4,000-meter distance medley team beat Loras by two-thousandths of a second to secure first at the Drake Relays, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Rachelle Karstens ’92 was inaugurated as the 11th president of Briar Cliff University, as reported by the Sioux City Journal.
Randy Schumacher ’02 won an Edward R. Murrow regional award for excellence in journalism in the "Excellence in Video" category for a story entitled Pipe Dream, as reported by WHO-TV.
Two Wartburg College student-led projects received $10,000 grants each from the Davis Projects for Peace to implement projects in Sierra Leone and Namibia, as reported by KGAN/Fox28.
Jordan LeClere ’11 and a friend are collecting bales of hay to help Nebraska farmers and ranchers affeted by the recent flooding, as reported by KWAY.
The Rev. Michael Burk ’77 had a guest opinion column encouraging people of faith to help find a solution to global climate change published in the Des Moines Register.
Duane Bierman ’00 reminisced about his own experiences traveling abroad with the Wartburg College band as he prepares to take his own band to Ireland, as reported by the Kearney Hub.
Wartburg wrestling took sixth at the Division III National Championships, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
After losing all five starters on last year's Final Four team, the women's basketball team is proving its doubters wrong by making a push into the postseason with its third Sweet 16 appearance in four years, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Despite being diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes in high school, Brock Rathbun ’21 has continued to rank at the top of his weight class and will attempt to defend his national championship this weekend, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Nick Mitchell ’00, who has led the Grand View University wrestling team to seven national titles and has an eighth in his sight, credits Jim Mller, his Wartburg wrestling coach, with much of his passion for the sport and his coaching philosophy, as reported by the Des Moines Register.
The wrestling team earned four individual championships and the team title at the NCAA Division III Lower Midwest Regional, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
All 10 wrestlers moved on to day two at the the NCAA Division III Lower Midwest Regional, including nine in the championship bracket, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The men's team earned first while the women took second at the American Rivers Conference Indoor Track and Field championships, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The No. 3 Wartburg wrestling team upset No. 1 Augsburg 16-15 during the annual Battle of the ’Burgs, as reported by KARE11 and on ThePredicament.com.
The college is offering a new scholarship for students of Deutsch Amerikanischer National Kongress members, as reported by KWWL.
Allix Williamson ’16 recently took over as director of operations for the Campbell University wrestling team, as reported by the Fort Dodge Messenger.
The wrestling team secured its 35th straight win over Luther College with a 34-6 dual victory, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The men's and women's basketball teams swept Central in a doubleheader, as reported by KNIA/KRLS and the Oskaloosa News.
Two Wartburg alumni were chosen by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier for its "20 Under 40" honors. Lamont Muhammad '06, a teacher at Irving Elementary in Waterloo, is reaching students through hip-hop, as reported by the Courier. Matt Lamos '06, owner of East Bremer Diner in Waverly, helps his staff and community thrive, as reported by the Courier.
The wrestling team looks to finish on top at the NWCA National Duals in Louisville, Ky., as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier and Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Kiera Benge-Shea ’16 was one of several students whose research was recognized at the DMU Research Symposium on Dec. 6. Benge-Shea, who is studying to become a doctor of podiatric medicine completed research on “Surgical Management of Hallux Abducto Valgus Deformity with Concomitant Second Brachymetatarsia.”
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The College and Black Student Union partnered to bring Rodney Lewis of Rodney's Kitchen in Waterloo to campus to prepare a traditional Black meal for dinner in Mensa as part of the College and organization's celebration of Black History Month, as reported by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Maribel Lopez ’10 has been named the head of PBS Digital Studios, where she will oversee the station's efforts to further drive content delivery and audience development across multiple digital platforms.
Ethan Schellhorn ’25 was one of eight college students to receive the MercyOne Friends of Waterloo Medical Center scholarship for 2021, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Silvia Oakland ’21 is serving as the in-kind gifts officer for N Street Village in Washington, D.C., as volunteer for the Lutheran Volunteer Corps.