Kingsway’s remarkable Kylie Anicic made it 16-for-16 in PSAC races Saturday morning with a dominating win at the conference cross country championships.
Anicic, an Edinboro senior and one of the top runners in NCAA Division 2, won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference title course by XX meters, covering the 6,000-meter course on Bloomsburg’s Upper Campus in 21:37.2.
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Just 1,000 meters into the race, Anicic had already built a 50-meter lead at 3:27 and she extended it to 100 meters when she came through 3,000 meters at 10:44. Anicic, cruising unpressed through the second half of the race, was at 18:02 through 5,000 meters and won by 125 meters over Elaina Klinger of Slippery Rock, who was 2nd in 22:07.8.
Anicic won the mile, 3,000 and 5,000 and anchored the winning DMR at the 2022 and 2023 PSAC indoor meets and the 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 at the 2022 and 2023 outdoor meets and has now won both her PSAC cross country races.
Next for Anicic is the NCAA Division 2 Atlantic Region Championships Nov. 4 at the West Branch Course in Lock Haven. Anicic won regionals last year in Mansfield, Pa., earning an auto bid to nationals at Chambers Bay Golf Club in University Place, Wash., outside Tacoma, where she earned 2nd-team All-America honors with a 31st-place finish. This year’s NCAA Division 2 championship is back at Chambers Bay on Dec. 3.
Anicic began her collegiate career playing soccer at Temple before embarking on a track and XC career at Towson. She’s been at Edinboro since the spring of 2021 and has competed for the Fighting Scots since the 2022 indoor season.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 