Millersville

Among the most accomplished athletes in Millersville history, Elicia Anderson piled up three All-America and eight All-PSAC honors in track and field and cross country while winning three PSAC Championship events from 2008-12. She still holds school records in five events.
 
Anderson began a dominant two-year stretch during the 2010 cross country season. In the first race of the season, she set a Millersville 5K record, running a time of 17:36. Later that season, she ran a 6K time of 21:03—the second-fastest in program history. Anderson finished runner-up at both the PSAC Championships and NCAA Atlantic Regional Championships, qualifying for the NCAA Division II Championships where her 14th-place finish earned her a first career All-America honor and the second-best national finish by a Marauder.
 
Anderson carried that momentum into the 2010-11 indoor season where she finished as the PSAC runner-up in the 5,000-meter run. She qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the event and placed 10th for All-America status. After PSAC Championships runner-up finishes in the cross country and the indoor seasons, Anderson broke through in the 2011 outdoor season. She won the 10,000-meter run at the PSAC Outdoor Championships with a time of 36:24.20. She bested that time just two weeks later at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a school-record run of 34:17.31. That time earned Anderson a fourth-place finish. She qualified in the 5,000 and placed 11th.
 
Her senior cross country season was slowed by an injury, but Anderson still managed All-Atlantic Region honors with a sixth-place finish at the regional championships. But she was fully healthy for the indoor season, and it showed. Anderson was again the PSAC Indoor Championships runner-up in the 5,000 and also took third in the 3,000-meter run. At the NCAA Indoor Championships, she claimed All-America honors with a sixth-place finish in the 5,000.
 
Anderson closed her career in 2012 by becoming the first Marauder to win both the 3,000 and 5,000 at the PSAC Outdoor Championships. For the second year in a row, Anderson qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in both the 5,000 and 10,000. She brought home a 10th-place finish in the 10,000 and a 16th-place finish in the 5,000.
 
Over the course of her career, Anderson was a USTFCCCA All-Atlantic Region track and field performer nine times. Also an outstanding student, she was a four-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete and three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2012.
 
Anderson is married to former Millersville soccer player John Claffey '12, and the couple has a daughter, Alivia.