Molly Seidel is an absolute beast and it’s a hell of a comeback story (and a great person from everyone I’ve met who knew her). But this sort of implies that she’s some nobody who just pulled off a massive upset...she was an absolutely dominant college athlete at Notre Dame who was in an injury rut.
FWIW, the Oregonian did a piece on Galen Rupp (maybe the best current US men’s distance runner) and the difficulty of making ends meet as a distance runner because the riches typically go to the sprinters.
Title Implication: Rando coffee shop barista takes a 2½ hour lunch break to run in her first marathon ever and qualifies for Olympics!
Actual Title: Former four-time NCAA champion who swept the NCAA Cross-country and NCAA indoor 3K and 5K titles and currently works as a barista after graduating qualifies for Olympics.
chimundopdx on March 2nd, 2020 at 13:14 UTC »
Molly Seidel is an absolute beast and it’s a hell of a comeback story (and a great person from everyone I’ve met who knew her). But this sort of implies that she’s some nobody who just pulled off a massive upset...she was an absolutely dominant college athlete at Notre Dame who was in an injury rut.
FWIW, the Oregonian did a piece on Galen Rupp (maybe the best current US men’s distance runner) and the difficulty of making ends meet as a distance runner because the riches typically go to the sprinters.
starstarstar42 on March 2nd, 2020 at 13:22 UTC »
Title Implication: Rando coffee shop barista takes a 2½ hour lunch break to run in her first marathon ever and qualifies for Olympics!
Actual Title: Former four-time NCAA champion who swept the NCAA Cross-country and NCAA indoor 3K and 5K titles and currently works as a barista after graduating qualifies for Olympics.
shannirogers on March 2nd, 2020 at 14:14 UTC »
This photo perfectly captures her reaction to being labelled "a coffee shop barista", and not "former NCAA champion several times over."