![]() Though the focus of her 2015 track season had simply been qualifying for nationals, Seidel says the 10,000-meter win changed things as she approached the fall season. But Bates faltered after making a big move with four laps remaining, and Seidel took over and powered to the finish line for a surprise victory. Few expected her to be up with the favorites, who included defending champion Emma Bates of Boise State and Dominique Scott of Arkansas. The 10,000-meter title in the spring was Seidel’s third race at the distance. The key to her training has been volume, and obviously it paid off when we got to the outdoor track season.” So rather than beat a dead horse, we gave her workouts that were more aerobic-based. “She was getting aches and pains, and honestly she could only finish about half of some of the workouts we were trying to do. “We learned that traditional interval training wasn’t Molly’s cup of tea,” Sparks says. Though he arrived in South Bend only a few weeks before the first meet of the 2014 cross-country season, Sparks was quick to size up the deficiencies in Seidel’s training. But finishing 171 st at 2013 cross country nationals was disheartening, and the 2014 indoor and outdoor track seasons brought more frustration.Įnter Matt Sparks, hired as Notre Dame distance specialist and assistant track coach in late August of 2014 after 12 years at Southern Illinois University. ![]() While the setbacks took a toll, Seidel tried to soldier on. She calls it a “comedy of errors for two years.” Once she got into a different dorm, Seidel endured a string of other maladies: a stress fracture in her fibula, then another in her tibia. was kind of a nightmare-it was three or four months of being the sickest I’ve ever been.” ![]() “And I think people in the finishing chute thought I had tuberculosis or something. “I was coughing up blood on the start line at nationals,” Seidel says. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīut there’s a footnote to that 217 th place finish, and to the whole 2012 season. ![]()
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