Seattle University Men's Track

Steidl's coaching, senior Erik Barkhaus won the individual men's cross country championship. At the Emerald City Open, the men's team took first overall and the women's team placed third overall. For the track & field team, Barkhaus was voted Capital One First Team Academic All-District VIII, and three-year track captain Meeghan Bergmann and conference steeplechase champion Hannah Middlestaedt taking honors for the Capital One Second Team Academic All-District in women's cross country and track & field. Six school records were broken at the WAC Indoor Championships for track & field. Redshirt junior Dylan Burnett competed in the men's javelin throw at the NCAA Division 1 West Preliminary Championships, placing 23rd. Before joining the WAC, Steidl has led her squads to new heights as they competed as part of the Great West Conference. The men's cross country team posted back-to-back second place finishes at the 2009 and 2010 conference championships, and in 2011 the women took third place in the conference. During the track and field season, numerous records have been set over the past two years, and the team has enjoyed eight individual conference titles: two during the 2010 outdoor championships, two in the 2011 indoor championships, one each during the 2011 outdoor championships, and 2012 indoor championships, and two during the 2012 outdoor championships. In spring 2008, Katie Hansen qualified for the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 3000 meter run, finishing 11th in the finals of that event. Steidl's challenge is to field competitive teams that can succeed on the Division I level, as the university continues the reclassification process. Steidl also strives to make her teams just as successful in the classroom. She has goals of a 3.0 average team GPA. Her cross country teams currently have one of the highest average GPAs out of all Seattle University teams.  Steidl came to Seattle University by way of Edmonds-Woodway High School, where she had been responsible for all distance and middle distance events for the 2006 track season and was an assistant for the 2005 cross country season. Steidl served as an assistant cross country coach at the University of Portland in 2004, coaching both the men's and women's squads. As an assistant, Steidl helped guide the women's team to a West Coast Conference championship and 12th place finish at the NCAA Division I West Regional meet. On the men's side, Steidl also coached the team to a WCC championship and a highly competitive 5th place finish at the West Regional meet. In addition, Steidl coached indoor and outdoor track & field distance events at Seattle Pacific University in the spring of 2004. At SPU, Steidl mentored one NCAA qualifier in the 10,000 meters. A highly accomplished competitor, Steidl rowed for the University of Washington women's rowing team that won three NCAA Division I national championships between 1995 and 1999; she also qualified for the 2000 US Olympic Trails in rowing. Most recently, Steidl has made her mark on the Northwest long-distance running scene, winning the Seattle Marathon in 2006, 2007, and 2011. She narrowly missed a qualifying time for both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Trials in the marathon. In 2009, she finished ninth at the United States Mountain Running National Championships. In addition to her collegiate coaching stints, Steidl has served 12 years as a coach and counselor for the White Pass Running Camp, which features some of the Pacific Northwest's top running talent. Steidl earn a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the University of Washington and completed her master's degree in Sports and Exercise Leadership from Seattle Pacific University in the spring 2005. Steidl also holds her Level I USATF coaching certification and is a member of the USATF Coaches Registry.

Steidl's previous coaching experiences came as assistant track and cross country coach at Edmonds-Woodway HS, where he was also teaching honors and IB/AP chemistry. He has been a coach/counselor at the White Pass Cross Country camp for the past 16 years and at the Falcon Cross Country camp from 2003-2005. As a runner, Steidl excels in pretty much any distance running event. As a U-20 runner he was 3rd (1990) and a year later won the Mountain Running World Trophy. That same year he also ran for Germany in the U-20 races at the World Cross Country Championships and the European Junior Championships. After a year in the military he attended the University of Portland where he was a six-time NCAA qualifier. A 16th place finish at the 1996 NCAA DI Cross Country championships earned him an All American certificate and eventually "Student-Athlete of the Year" at the University of Portland. After college Steidl became one of the top road runners in the Pacific Northwest and the dominant marathoner in Washington with 10 Seattle Marathon wins (1999 - 2006, 2012-2013), five Vancouver Marathon wins (2000 - 2004) and a still-standing Portland Marathon course record (2:17:21, 1997). He has run 14 sub-2:20h marathons so far. He has also won most ultramarathons (50k and 50 miles) he has entered and broke the course record in many of them. After a 12th place finish at the 2007 Boston Marathon he was named to the German Team for the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan, where he finished 37th out of 85 starters in the marathon. He returned to the Boston Marathon in April 2012 and won the masters division with a time of 2:23.08, 15th overall and fifth among American men. After finishing third in the masters division at the 2013 Boston Marathon, he once again won the masters division at the 2014 Boston Marathon in 2:19:48, his first sub-2:20 marathon in five years. PRs: 800m - 1:56.03; 1500m - 3:49.62; 3000m - 8:03.02; 3000m steeplechase - 9:08.5; 5000m - 14:04:81; 10000m - 28:50.14; 1/2 marathon - 1:05:58; marathon - 2:13:56. Steidl holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Portland, and both a Master of Science degree in chemistry and a Masters degree in teaching from the University of Washington.

Bloom went to the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho to continue his education, graduating in 2014. Bloom competed against Seattle U in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) as a 400m sprinter. A four-year letter winner at Idaho in both indoor and outdoor track and field, Bloom was a member of four WAC Championship teams. In 2014, he placed second in the 400m at WAC Indoor Championships with a time of 47. 9 and holds an all-time outdoor best of 47.72. While in college, Bloom served on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee for the University of Idaho and for the WAC. Bloom graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science & Health and a Minor in Business.  Bloom also spent two seasons coaching with the Pullman Comets a local track & field club in eastern Washington.