SEPTEMBER 29 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

HEY CARDINALS NATION!
Welcome to the Concordia Athletics Newsletter! By subscribing, you will get any and all information about Cardinal Athletics sent straight to your inbox every week. Monday editions will be a comprehensive review of last week and preview of upcoming events. Wednesdays & Fridays will be quick leadership and mindset thoughts to motivate you throughout the week. Here’s what to expect in today’s newsletter: 

• Quote of the Day

• Verse of the Day

• Announcements

• Weekly Schedule

• Read Time: ~ 5 minutes

✍️ ADVERSITY PRODUCES PERSEVERANCE

James 1 tells us to consider it pure joy when we face challenges of many kinds, because the testing of our faith produces perseverance. Adversity is part of the process God uses to refine us. You can’t run from it, and you can’t complain about it. It’s what builds not only your toughness and strength, but also your character and faith.

For our student-athletes, those testing moments can come from tough practices, the injuries, the losses, the disappointments, those are the things that reveal who you are, not just as an athlete, but as a follower of Christ.

If you respond the right way, leaning on Him, you come out more mature, more disciplined, and more complete, not lacking anything. That’s how you grow into the man or woman God has called you to be.

So don’t look at adversity as a setback. Look at it as an opportunity to get better, both on the field and in your faith. Because in sports, and in life, the ones who endure with joy and keep pressing on are the ones who not only build legacies, but also honor Christ with the way they live and compete

— Coach T

💬 VERSE OF THE DAY

📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS

We’re excited to launch the Cardinal Club for the 2025-26 school year, the best way for Concordia Families to get involved! We have a group on SportsYou that will help provide a way to volunteer, receive updates, and get involved! By joining, you’ll have quick access to announcements and volunteer opportunities.

👉 Join the Cardinal Club with the following code on the SportsYou app: CCAX-YYYR

Our Cardinal Club helped provide some amazing volunteers for our 2025 Homecoming Celebration and Tailgate!

If you’re interested, please sign up directly through the Cardinal Club on SportsYou.

📆 WEEKLY SCHEDULE

🏅 LOOKING FOR MORE WAYS TO SUPPORT CARDINAL ATHLETICS?

If you are looking for more ways to follow along and support our athletes, here are a few more things we do:

1. Interested in Sponsoring an Edition of our Newsletter? Shoot an email to our athletic director [email protected] and he will point you in the right direction!

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I pray that your day is full of reminders of God’s love and faithfulness. May you faithfully build your life on Christ.

“But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in my weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” - 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

To God be the glory,

Coach T