While her parents never pressured her to do sports, Seidel said their family has always been active – her twin siblings, Isabel and Fritz, 16, are also involved in sports at ULS Isabel participates in field hockey, cross country, skiing and track, while Fritz is in soccer, skiing and track. She was an “instant success,” Borkowski said of the Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year and national champion at the Brooks PR Invitational, an indoor track meet. He was there when Seidel backed out of her first meet because her nerves made her sick and when she came in first place at her second meet. Her school didn’t have a track team, but she was able to participate in the track program Borkowski started at her family’s parish, because of her enrollment in its religious education program.

“I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for him.”īorkowski has coached Seidel since she was a seventh-grade student at ULS taking Christian formation classes at St. I think that he taught me to love running and to just kind of always go after my goals. Joan of Arc and assistant cross country coach at ULS, is her role model. Seidel said Brian Borkowski, track coach at St. “I don’t see myself as like a bigshot runner, I just see myself as Molly,” she told your Catholic Herald. The 2012 University Lake School graduate also won 11 state championships in track.Īnd she not only maintained a 4.0 grade point average, or above, throughout high school, but she took several AP classes, was a mathlete, sang in choir, participated in field hockey, was on the ski team and sails for fun.Įven with her accomplishments in running, academics and music – she’s a pianist and a self-taught ukulele player – Seidel is humble. Molly Seidel, 18, who won four consecutive Wisconsin State Cross Country Championships and 11 state championships in track during high school, plans to continue her running career while studying biology and English as a minor at the University of Notre Dame in fall.

At 18, Molly Seidel shares a record with three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton after winning her fourth consecutive Wisconsin State Cross Country Championship last November.

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