Forsyth to Represent Canada at NACAC U20 Championships
2/15/2019 11:08:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Having already established herself as one of the nation's best young cross country runners, true freshman Anne Forsyth of the University of Michigan is going international this weekend as she competes for Team Canada at the NACAC U20 Cross Country Championships in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday (Feb. 16).
Forsyth, a dual Canadian-American citizen who hails from Ann Arbor, will be part of the six-woman squad for Canada as it competes at the six-kilometer championship event for the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
She will race some of the hemisphere's best young runners from the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Costa Rica six times around the one-kilometer loop at Queens Park Savannah starting at 2 p.m. Atlantic Time (1 p.m. EST).
Forsyth had one of the best freshman cross country campaigns in Michigan school history in 2018, earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors and finishing 46th as the third-best freshman at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.
Her first indoor track and field campaign at Michigan has been just as strong. She has run 9:41.59 over 3,000 meters and 4:47.44 over one mile so far this winter.
After these NACAC Championships, she will return to Ann Arbor to compete in the Big Ten Indoor Championships at Michigan on Feb. 22-23. A month later, she will head off to Aarhus, Denmark, to again represent Canada at the IAAF World U20 Championships on March 30.
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