She barely competed and got injured again. She came back to Notre Dame for a fifth year, citing unfinished business at the college level, but it was really because the sponsorship dollars weren’t there anymore. Seidel turned down the lucrative sponsorship opportunities to quietly enter treatment for her eating disorder. The truth was, the fastest woman in the NCAA was struggling with depression and an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifested itself in disordered eating. “You look like you’re dying,” Seidel remembers her friend saying. Olympic Track Trials from the stands at Hayward Field, where her Notre Dame teammate Dani Aragon gave her a reality check. She was the top female distance runner in the NCAA with four national titles and the Olympic Trials on the horizon.īut instead of signing a splashy contract with a shoe company, Seidel was sidelined with a sacral stress fracture and watched the U.S. At the 2021 Olympic Marathon on August 7 in Tokyo, Seidel won bronze in her third marathon ever, running 2:27:46.įour years ago, Molly Seidel wasn’t just the next big thing.
Editor’s note: On February 29, Molly Seidel made her first Olympic team by placing second at the Olympic Marathon Trials.
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