 In her career, Seeger amassed 27 medals as a coach to her athletes.She credited her success to her colleagues at Texas School for the Deaf and her husband Julius, but was known to be modest about her achievements.In 1969, Seeger was named "Woman of the Year" at Gallaudet University by the college's Women's Recreation Association, an annual award given to the "devotion, encouragement and self-sacrifice in assisting the deaf".