Coaching Staff

Tim Wier is in his third season as a cross-country assistant coach. Wier graduated Concordia in 2005 as one of the Cougars’ top all-time runners. He was a three-time winner of the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference Male Runner of the Year honor (2002-04), and he helped lead the Cougar men to four consecutive conference titles during his career. Currently, he holds three of the top 11 times in the men’s 8k, including a best of 26:15 (fifth place all-time) set in 2004. An outstanding student as well, Wier was named to the first-team NIIC All-Scholastic three times, nominated multiple times for CoSIDA Academic All-American honors, and named an ESPN The Magazine third-team national Academic All-American athlete in June of 2005. He was also honored as the recipient of Concordia’s Terry-Schubert Memorial Christian Service Award in 2005.

Wier received his degree in secondary education with a specialization in computer science. He currently serves in CougarNet at Concordia as a network manager.

Jayme (Hardy) Wier begins her fourth season as a cross-country assistant coach alongside fellow assistant/husband Tim. As Jayme Hardy, she became the first Cougar woman to ever earn NIIC Female Runner of the Year when she accomplished the feat in 2003 in leading the Cougar women to their first-ever conference title. Hardy holds three of the top 10 times in the women’s 5k, with a best of 20:48 (third place all-time) set in 2000. She was honored as a member of the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference first-team All-Scholastic in 2004 and was nominated for CoSIDA Academic All-American honors.

Hardy-Wier graduated Concordia in 2004 with a degree in music education. Formerly an elementary teacher, she is currently a stay-at-home mom for the couple's daughter Kari, born in April of 2009.

 

 

Matt Beisel is in his first year as an assistant for the Cougars' cross-country program.

Beisel coached cross-country and track and taught science for seven years at Lutheran High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. During that time, the school won three state championships in cross-country, placed as high as third in the state track championships, earned numerous all-state honors and produced individual state champions in the high jump and long jump.

Beisel was a standout cross-country and track athlete at Concordia College in Seward, Nebraska, earning all-conference, all-district, and NAIA national qualifier status as a distance runner. He graduated in 1992 with degrees in biology and art. He earned a Master’s degree in science education from the University of Iowa in 1997.

Beisel and his wife Jill have a 5 1/2 year old daughter Keegan and are expecting their second child in January of 2010..