Seamus Reidy '23 Recruiting Profile

Dear Coaches, 

I picked up running shortly after schools shut down due to COVID, in hopes of increasing my stamina on the Ice (I was a Hockey Player at the time). My neighbor was team captain for his cross country team and ended up running with me. We ran 6 days a week and I learned a lot along the way. Once the summer rolled around my sister's boyfriend was Captain of my school's team at the time and encouraged me to join the team. I started to show up to practices and quickly fell in love with the sport and improved tremendously to the point, when the first race came around I was #1 on the team. I ended up running 3 seasons that year and here I am, finished with my 4th season of running and 1/3 of the way through my second year on the team. I love the Sport of Cross Country/Track for many reasons, but mainly because of self improvement, beating my past self is something I try to do every time I step on the line. I feel as though I have learned important values of discipline and leadership from Cross Country/Track. I am Captain of Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track and strive to set a good example everyday for my teammates to follow. Some reason's why I would be a good candidate for your team are, I am coachable, hard working, supportive of teammates and easygoing. I feel my story of how I picked up the sport makes me different from other recruits, I still use many important life lessons I have learned from playing hockey all of my life up until last year and they help me in my training day in and day out. I am a High Honors Student and have passions in Biology and Anatomy. My current XC 5k PR is 17:03 and look forward to improving my times during track this winter and spring, which I am confident in due to my success this fall and high mileage I put in over the summer. Finally, the one thing I can promise you is I will give you my very best if I run on your team.

-Seamus Reidy (1st team All State 2021 XC, 1st team All Conference 2021 XC, XC Captain, Indoor Captain, Outdoor Captain)