Where Are They Now ... With Alex Sellers
July 09, 2020 | Swimming & Diving
This former team captain earned her bioengineering degree and works for Stryker Spine
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Louisville, Ky. – After a week off, swimming and diving assistant coach Kameron Chastain catches up with 2017 graduate and Cardinal Forever Alex Sellers in this week's podcast of Where Are They Now. They talk about some of her experiences at UofL and what she is doing today.
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A Texas native, Sellers initially wasn't getting heavily recruited until her junior year of high school when she got a big recruiting envelope from Louisville. After posting on Facebook about the exciting news, friends and people she knew let her know that UofL was a really awesome school with great coaches and facilities, which helped vault Louisville into her top two. After visiting her top two schools, she knew Louisville was the place for her. Alex felt Louisville could be a second home for her as well as be a school where she could make an impact and build a legacy.
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Academically, Sellers came in with the idea of working in the medical field in some capacity. She toyed with the idea of medical school but decided on bioengineering and working with medical tools and technology. Finding the exact position for herself was a hard task but she was up for it. After doing her co-ops and researching jobs, Alex was able to find her perfect position molding her interests into one, and into the career she enjoys today.
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When thinking back to what she thinks was a major factor in the shift to UofL's dominance in the sport, Alex credits the great team leadership and the idea that freshmen can be great contributors. One of her favorite things she sees in the development of the team today is how much improvement they have had not only in the pool but in the classroom. When she was on the team, they had a strong 3.3 team GPA and today the team boasts an impressive 3.65-3.7 GPA.
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Thinking on the traditional question of what your favorite memory is, Alex came up with two. Her favorite personal swimming memory was after a slump year her sophomore year. Her junior year, she decided to switch from the 50 free to the 200 IM has her third event in hopes to make the ACC team. She did just that and broke the two-minute mark for the first time in the 200 IM in the finals. Her favorite part of the experience was watching her teammates celebrate on the side of the pool for her. Alex's favorite team memory was her senior year at NCAAs when Mallory Comerford tied Katie Ladecky in the 200 free after the Olympic year.
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"Getting to be the captain of a team that accomplished those things and to getting to be a leader when that happened, is one of the biggest honors," she said of the memory.
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Today, Alex is currently a clinical specialist for Stryker Spine. She works specifically with their surgical navigation product which she says is "like GPS for surgery," and works mainly with neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons doing anything from brain tumor removal to spine fusions.
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Being the product specialist, she works closely with the sales team and reps but doesn't do any of the selling. Her job takes into the surgeries where she works to be support for the surgeons in using the product.
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Louisville, Ky. – After a week off, swimming and diving assistant coach Kameron Chastain catches up with 2017 graduate and Cardinal Forever Alex Sellers in this week's podcast of Where Are They Now. They talk about some of her experiences at UofL and what she is doing today.
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A Texas native, Sellers initially wasn't getting heavily recruited until her junior year of high school when she got a big recruiting envelope from Louisville. After posting on Facebook about the exciting news, friends and people she knew let her know that UofL was a really awesome school with great coaches and facilities, which helped vault Louisville into her top two. After visiting her top two schools, she knew Louisville was the place for her. Alex felt Louisville could be a second home for her as well as be a school where she could make an impact and build a legacy.
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Academically, Sellers came in with the idea of working in the medical field in some capacity. She toyed with the idea of medical school but decided on bioengineering and working with medical tools and technology. Finding the exact position for herself was a hard task but she was up for it. After doing her co-ops and researching jobs, Alex was able to find her perfect position molding her interests into one, and into the career she enjoys today.
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When thinking back to what she thinks was a major factor in the shift to UofL's dominance in the sport, Alex credits the great team leadership and the idea that freshmen can be great contributors. One of her favorite things she sees in the development of the team today is how much improvement they have had not only in the pool but in the classroom. When she was on the team, they had a strong 3.3 team GPA and today the team boasts an impressive 3.65-3.7 GPA.
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Thinking on the traditional question of what your favorite memory is, Alex came up with two. Her favorite personal swimming memory was after a slump year her sophomore year. Her junior year, she decided to switch from the 50 free to the 200 IM has her third event in hopes to make the ACC team. She did just that and broke the two-minute mark for the first time in the 200 IM in the finals. Her favorite part of the experience was watching her teammates celebrate on the side of the pool for her. Alex's favorite team memory was her senior year at NCAAs when Mallory Comerford tied Katie Ladecky in the 200 free after the Olympic year.
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"Getting to be the captain of a team that accomplished those things and to getting to be a leader when that happened, is one of the biggest honors," she said of the memory.
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Today, Alex is currently a clinical specialist for Stryker Spine. She works specifically with their surgical navigation product which she says is "like GPS for surgery," and works mainly with neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons doing anything from brain tumor removal to spine fusions.
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Being the product specialist, she works closely with the sales team and reps but doesn't do any of the selling. Her job takes into the surgeries where she works to be support for the surgeons in using the product.
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