University of Portland Athletics

• 1996 Cross Country All-American; his 16th place individual finish at the NCAA XC Championships was at the time the highest finish in program history and it helped the Pilots finish 10th as a team.
• He was also 44th at the NCAA Championships in 1993 and 36th in 1995.
• Four times he finished in the top 10 at NCAA Rgionals, something no other Pilot has done.
• 1997 WCC Scholar-Athlete of the Year
• 1997 University of Portland Athlete of the Year
• Won the 1994 WCC Individual title to help the Pilots claim the team title, their 16th straight.
• At the end of his collegiate career, he claimed the second fastest 3000m (8:14:84) and 5000m (14:06.64) in program history, and held the third fastest 10,000m (29:16.44).
• Six-time NCAA Qualifier in both Cross Country and Track.
• 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 14 sub-2:20h marathons to his credit, and he has also won multiple ultramarathons (50k and 50 miles), breaking several the course records along the way.
• Following 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 won the masters division at the 2012 Boston Marathon in April 2012 with a time of 2:23.08, which was 15th overall and fifth among American men.
• At the 2014 Boston Marathon, he once again won the masters division in 2:19:48.
• Has been an assistant coach at Seattle U for 10 years.