STEVE MCCONKEY

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Steve McConkey is the President of 4 WINDS USA, a world-class track and field ministry. Starting in 1981, they have worked through eleven Olympic cycles. From 1982 through 1992, Steve was a USA National Track and Field Club Coach. Ministry centers have been in Eugene (OR), Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), Minneapolis-St. Paul (MN), and Madison (WI). Over the years, he had hundreds of worldwide radio, article, and TV interviews. Steve graduated with honors from Western Kentucky University (Master of Public Health), Minnesota State University (BS-Community Health), and Webster High School (WI). He was born in Des Moines (IA) and moved to NW Wisconsin after the sixth grade.  Also, Steve stands up for Olympic and Christian athletes.  Picture is with Rep. Jim Jordan in Washington  DC.

BIO CLIPS

--On October 19, 1955, Steve was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended Dunlap Elementary School and went on two field trips to the Drake Relays where he was introduced to world-class track and field. In 1968, Steve’s family moved to the Danbury, Wisconsin area (Dairyland).

--Steve ran 70,256 miles from 1971 through 2019, forty-eight years at 4.01 miles per day. He ran for Webster High School (WI) and the University of Wisconsin-Superior before transferring to Minnesota State University in Mankato. In 1977, MSU was third at the NCAA Division 2 Cross Country Championships. Steve got a BS-Community Health degree from MSU with honors.

--Steve became a Christian in March 1976 at the University of Wisconsin-Superior after reading a Bible left in the student union.

--Steve was a graduate assistant coach at Western Kentucky University for the cross-country and track and field teams in 1980-81. They won the Ohio Valley Conference Cross Country Championships with a perfect 15 points and were sixth at the 1980 NCAA Division 1 Cross Country Championships. He got his Master of Public Health degree with honors at WKU.

--From 1982 through 1992, Steve was a successful USA National Track and Field Club Coach for Athletes in Action (82-83), Lay Witnesses for Christ (83-88), and 4 Winds Christian Athletics (88-92). Team centers were in Eugene (OR), Dallas-Fort Worth (TX), and Minneapolis-St. Paul (MN). After 1992, 4 Winds Christian Athletics dropped the team to work with athletes on all teams.

--4 Winds Christian Athletics (now 4 WINDS USA) legally began in September 1988 in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The final non-profit ruling was in 1994.

--In 1996, Steve and Liz McConkey were 75 yards from the Olympic bomb in Atlanta. They saw Richard Jewell pushing people back. He was falsely accused of planting the bomb, but was later cleared. Steve and his family were going to go in the direction of where the bomb was, but Jewell pushed them back. More people would have died if Jewell had not warned them. They saw a guy go in with an Army bag before the bomb went off and the FBI interviewed them.

--While running near Danbury, Wisconsin in the summer of 1997, Steve saw two bears come out of the woods 175 feet in front of him. One was huge and the other was smaller. They did not run away as normal. He ran through the woods to the shore of Big McGraw Lake near Danbury, Wisconsin and stopped. Steve heard the bear chasing through the woods. He went out 15 feet from the shoreline. The smaller bear came to the shoreline and got into the water. As Steve threw muck at the bear’s face and shouted, the bear was clicking its jaws loudly and rotating its head like a robot. Fifteen feet from the shoreline, he walked 200 feet as the bear walked away from the water and kept coming back. A pontoon picked Steve up.

--In 2003, Steve was the only person publicly standing against the International Olympic Committee's transgender policy. He called various IOC members and was in contact with the USA Olympic Committee. From there, the transgender sports movement spread to schools and other sports organizations throughout the world. The lone voice consistently for 19 years until 2022, Steve has fought this agenda every step of the way. Finally in 2022, more people started to speak up.

--The ministry moved to Madison, Wisconsin in the fall of 2006. They lived near the University of Wisconsin's Camp Randall football stadium. Before moving to Madison, Steve and Liz checked out Colorado Springs and Flagstaff, Arizona. On December 2021, they moved to NW Wisconsin. 

--Before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Steve and Senator Lindsey Graham fought the Chinese government after news circulated that they were not going to allow Bibles in the Olympic Village. Afterwards, China cleared up the confusion. There was a worldwide article released by the Associated Press on the subject.

--Before and during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, 4 WINDS USA put athlete testimonies into the Chinese underground church of 110 million people. Those athletes won many medals. After their events, they shared the gospel worldwide. Steve was contacted by a Chinese pastor to get the testimonies while mowing the lawn.

--Steve tried to sue the International Olympic Committee before the 2016 Olympics in Rio to stop the women’s 800m race. However, the lawyers said that he could not because he did not have a vested interest in the race. Steve was concerned that intersex athletes (not transgender) would sweep the race. That is exactly what happened as they had high untested testosterone levels. This was a turning point as Olympic sports organizations started to pay attention.

--In 2019, Steve asked Rasmussen to do a poll on transgender athletes. It was the first poll that was done on the subject in the United States. At that time, only 28% of Americans were for transgender athletes.

--In March 2022, Steve went to Washington DC to talk to elected officials. He asked them to go beyond stopping transgender athletes and include the dangers of transgender hormones and surgeries on minors in future bills, charging those who promote this. Later, Steve visited forty-five elected officials at the Wisconsin Capitol and went to other state capitals giving them the same message. 

--During the 2024 Olympics, Steve opposed the International Olympic Committee for telling the media to not use certain words to address athletes, including the words “transgender and born male or female." Also, he provided evidence that the United Nations and the Olympic Committee work together to implement the radical 2030 Agenda.

--On September 10, 2024, Steve was the Western Kentucky University Alumnus of the Week. WKU has 16,500 students.

--Previously, Bob Kellogg was a news reporter for Focus on the Family. Starting in the spring of 2018, he worked as a freelance education reporter for American Family Radio. He received a B.A. from Midland University in journalism and a M.A. from the University of Nebraska in journalism. Bob interviewed Steve hundreds of times while at American Family Radio. The radio broadcasts went on 180 radio stations in 35 states. Most of the interviews were played during their news reports. Bob died during the winter of 2026, but he got to see that the International Olympic Committee reversed their transgender policies. 

--During the 2026 Winter Olympics, Steve opposed the Olympic Committee, USA Figure Skating, USA Hockey and USA Speedskating for changing the name of the Ice House to Winter House. The Ice House was the USA hospitality center at the Olympics. They changed the name because they did not want people to think it referred to ICE agents, as some were working at the Games. 

--In March 2026, the International Olympic Committee banned transgender athletes and will require female athletes to take a once in a lifetime chromosome test that is done by a cheek swab. Currently, twenty-seven states have stopped transgender athletes. Also, the Supreme Court has ruled against them. 

--Since 1981, Steve has been to most USA Track and Field Championships, Olympic Trials, and some Olympics. The 2024 Olympics was their eleventh Olympic cycle. During the 2024 Olympic Trials, Steve had a successful outreach to the Olympic track and field team. They went on to win thirty-four medals in Paris, the most since the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Steve’s first Olympics was in Los Angeles in 1984, where the Olympics will be held in 2028.  

--Over the years, Steve had hundreds of worldwide radio, article, and TV interviews.

BELIEFS

1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.

2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. His virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious and atoning death through his shed blood, bodily resurrection, ascension to the right hand of the Father, and his personal return in power and glory.

4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful humanity, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.

5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.

6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, those who are saved unto the resurrection of life, and those who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

7. We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.