Nolan Morical
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- Height:
- 5-9
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- Hometown:
- Garfield, Minn.
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- Year:
- Sr.
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- High School:
- Alexandria
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- Major:
- Health & Physical Education
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- Minor:
- Psychology
Bio
Why did you pick Concordia: It is a small campus, great community, and I had the opportunity to compete in track
Post Graduation plans: Become a health and physical education teacher as well as coach football and track
Volunteer activities: Feed my Starving Children
The MORICAL File
Favorite food: Steak
Favorite restaurant: Texas Roadhouse
Favorite Movie: The Breakfast Club
Favorite TV/ Streaming Series: South Park
Favorite musical group: Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West
Go-to Karaoke song: Jukebox Hero
The place in the world I most want to visit: Italy
If I could have a super power it would be: Invisibility
If I were famous it would be for: Cancer survivor
Favorite professional sports team: MN Vikings
Favorite professional athlete growing up: Adrian Peterson
My dream job is: Professional drummer
If I could play another sport (other than Track and Field) I would play: Football
News mentions
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Concordia men’s track & field team closed out the third and final day of the 2026 MIAC Indoor Track & Field Championships with a surge of big-meet performances that lifted the Cobbers into fifth place in the team standings. Behind a championship-record throw from senior Cooper Folkestad, a podium-level relay, and multiple All-MIAC field event finishes, Concordia capped a memorable weekend inside Carleton College’s Recreation Center.
Concordia completed the pre-MIAC position of its schedule by competing at the UND Tune-Up meet. The Cobbers were paced by school record holders Cooper Folkestad and Tyler Evans and track athlete Jonas Hagemeister as all three came away with event wins.
It was another record-setting Saturday for the Cobbers. For the second consecutive meet, Concordia had a field athlete break a long-standing school record. Tyler Evans cleared the bar in the pole vault at 15-02.75 which broke the old mark set in 2017.
Concordia officially got into the grind of the indoor season when they competed at the UND Open. CC delivered several season-best performances at the second of seven events in the season.
Concordia kicked off the 2026 portion of its schedule in style as they posted eight first-place finishes at the 86th annual Cobber Alumni Open. CC got four event wins from individual track athletes, captured crowns in both the 4x200-meter and 4x400-meter relays and came away with a pair of field victories.
Senior Cooper Folkestad started his quest for a natty title by posting the second farthest distance in DIII in the shot put at the season-opening NDSU Alumni Classic.
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