She took six months off, eased back into running the next six months then rolled the dice by leaving her team and forging an athlete-coaching partnership with Jon Green. “Somebody described my hip as looking like I fell out of a 10-story building.” “I felt that was a pretty realistic diagnosis at the time,” said Seidel, who now trains out of Flagstaff, Ariz. In the summer of 2018, after running for a professional team in Boston, she was diagnosed with a broken hip and underwent an experimental bone-graft surgery.Ī doctor said she had a 50-50 chance of running again at an elite level. But she battled demons in South Bend., Ind., too, fighting an eating disorder that led to low bone density and injuries. Her college career took her to Notre Dame, where she won four national collegiate championships.

In 2011, her senior year at University Lake High School, she sped across the Balboa Park course to win the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship.

But you can still go out, race hard and achieve big things.”

“I guess people can see that my life’s been a little messy,” Seidel, 27.

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