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Forder Tech cross country runner Stacey Vidt is in her seventh year with the cross country and track & field teams, and her third as technical director. Vidt assumed the role of technical director in the summer of 2009, after spending 2005-09 as the assistant distance coach. Vidt competed as a distance runner for Tech’s cross country and track & field teams from 1999-2003.
As technical director, Vidt handles the operations aspects of the squad. Her responsibilities include the team itineraries and budget, travel arrangements, team liaison to the equipment room and compliance departments, administrative duties on recruitment of athletes and more. Her position is essential to the successful operation of the program.
During her first year as assistant cross country coach, Vidt worked with all-region performer Tasmin Fanning. In her second season, Vidt guided the 2006 women’s team, which produced five NCAA All-Southeast Region performers and qualified for the NCAA National Championships. In 2007, Vidt helped Fanning become Tech’s fourth woman, second NCAA and eighth overall All-American in cross country. Vidt and Fanning followed that up in 2008 with another All-America honor in cross country, and a Southeast Regional championship, a first for a Tech runner, male or female.
Vidt ended her collegiate career in 2002 as an NCAA All-Southeast Region runner with a 19th-place finish and qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships. She earned all-conference honors as a freshman after a ninth-place finish at the 1999 Atlantic-10 Championships and was Tech’s top runner at the regional meet that year.
On the track, Vidt was a provisional qualifier for the 2001 NCAA Championships in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and indoor distance medley relay. She also qualified for the 2003 NCAA Southeast Regional in the 5,000-meters. Vidt recorded a fourth-place finish in the 10,000-meter and two fifth-place finishes at the BIG EAST Conference Championships. She set five school track records, three indoor and two outdoor, during her career.
She was also named the Blacksburg Sports Club Outstanding Senior in 2003, as well as the track and field team’s Rookie of the Year in 2000. She had personal bests of 4:34.10 in the 1,500-meters, 10:03.79 in the 3,000-meters, 16:52 in the 5,000-meters and 36:28.40 in the 10,000-meters.
Vidt has competed in five marathons. She ran her personal best time of 2:59.03 at the Marine Corps Marathon on Oct. 28, 2007 in Washington D.C. The effort raised over 100,000 dollars for the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund.
Vidt, a human nutrition, foods and exercise graduate in the spring of 2003, went on to earn a master’s degree in muscle physiology from Virginia Tech in 2007. Her academic awards are just as numerous as her athletic honors, including recognition as a BIG EAST Academic All-Star as well as inclusion on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in 2003.
A native of Allison Park, Pa., Vidt attended Hampton High School, where she was a two-time letter winner and MVP in cross country and a four-time letter winner and MVP for track.
Vidt was a two-time, first-team all-state selection in cross country with a fourth-place finish in the state meet during her junior year. She won the WPIAL Regional cross country meet two years in a row. After her senior year, she was named Female Athlete of the Year for her high school.
Vidt was a three-time WPIAL regional track champion in the 800-meter, 1,600-meter and the 3,200-meter events and set four school records. Her school record in the 800-meter run is still standing. She was inducted into Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame in September 2005.
