Kingsway’s Kylie Anicic opened her cross country season with a win at the Tiffelberg Cross Country Meet in Tiffin, Ohio.
Anicic, now a senior at Edinboro, ran a fast 17:26.4 over 5,000 meters .
It was her first 5,000-meter XC race for Edinboro. Her previous 5,000 PR was a 19:06.4 in September of 2019 as a freshman at Towson in a race at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Anicic’s 6,000-meter XC PR of 21:07.5 is 17:36 pace for 5,000 meters. She has a track PR of 16:25.97 from indoor NCAAs in March in Virginia Beach.
Anicic led Edinboro to a big team win over Tiffin, 22-55. Edinboro went 1-2-4-5-10 and had all five scorers across the line before any of the eight other schools in the field got their second runner across.
Edinboro’s team average of 19:17 would have placed 5th in the race.
Anicic won by nearly 400 meters over Tiffin’s Ines Macadam, who was 2nd in 18:47.8 running unattatched. Kate Szep, an Edinboro junior, was the 2nd scoring finisher in 18:51.4.
Anicic won the NCAA Division 2 Atlantic Region XC Championship last November in Mansfield, Pa.
Edinboro is ranked No. 5 in the NCAA Division 2 Atlantic Region by the USTFCCCA.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 