![]() Again, you hear that a lot, and many times, it's true. "Just a great, great kid," Cynthia kept saying. ![]() ULS barely had the numbers for a track or cross country team - at times, Seidel was the team, and the Lakers certainly weren't often going to have the five requisite runners to compete in the team portion of cross country meets.īut the thing Cynthia insisted upon wasn't necessarily Seidel's talent as a runner it was her temperament and her attitude. Joan of Arc, enabling her to run competitively there). In Lake Country, surrounded by programs like mighty Arrowhead, it seemed highly unlikely to me that ULS would produce the next great running star. Since her earliest years, Molly had attended University Lake School, a small K-12 school in Hartland with a high-school enrollment of less than 100 (plus some classes at St. But mostly, it's just hard to definitively forecast success at that age. Sometimes they were the product of some embellishment from an excited sports community member. I covered high school sports for a decade and a half, and I heard a lot of enthusiastic stories about up-and-coming talent. ![]() I'm sure I nodded, but I also remember being quietly dismissive. I was sports director at the time covering the area, and Cynthia had kids roughly the same age as Molly Seidel, who won the Olympic bronze medal in the marathon Friday. Joan of Arc Parish track team in Nashotah, that she might be worth a profile story. My colleague at Lake Country Publications, Cynthia Luksich, tried to tell me how special this middle schooler was on the St. View Gallery: Tokyo Olympics: Molly Seidel takes bronze medal in women's marathon
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