VMI Athletics

TWO-YEAR LETTERWINNER

2006: Finished among the top two Keydets in each of the four races she ran...Placed sixth overall at the VMI Season Opener, running a 16:38 (4K) to lead the team...Also paced the squad at the VMI Invitational with a 20:38 (5K), coming in 17th overall...Ran a personal best of 24:39 (6K) at the Paul Short Invitational, placing 80th overall...Finished as the team's second runner at the Big South Championships, placing 40th with a time of 20:09 (5K).

2005: Redshirted the 2005 cross country season.

2004: Placed 16th at the Big South Championships, running a personal-best 19:13...Also placed 24th at the Blue Ridge Mountain Open, 46th at the Furman Invitational and 22nd at the Winthrop Invitational, her first collegiate cross country race.

High School: Native of Poland and was ranked in the top ten in the world in 2004 for the 1,500 meter junior women's steeplechase...An accomplished middle distance runner with personal bests of 2:12 in the 800m and 4:38 in the 1,500m.

Personal: Daughter of Janina and Leszek Najda...Full name is Ania Matgorzata Najda...Civil Engineering major.