Anita Edwards Class: Senior Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. High School: Stranahan Major: Health Service Administration

eam veteran who coaches hope will compete and represent the team at the level she is capable of reaching...qualified and competed at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 400m last year with a new school record time of 52.99…set a new Sun Belt Conference meet record outdoors in the 400m (53.18), beating the time she established the year before…finished second in the 200m dash, less than a half-second behind the event champion…earned all-conference recognition running with both the 4x100 and 4x400m relay teams…also garnered all-conference honors indoors by winning the 400m in a time of 54.35 which established a school mark previously held by FIU Olympian Tayna Lawrence and just missed qualifying for the NCAAs…selected the league's Performer of the Week for Apr. 1…helped FIU to the 4x400 indoor conference championship with a meet-record time of 3:44.30…all-conference performer as a sophomore after winning the indoor 200 and 400 meters and the 400 meters outdoors…selected the indoor meet's Outstanding Performer…posted season-best conference times in the 200 and 400m indoors and the 400m outdoors that same year…Junior All-American after competing in the 1998 AAU Junior Nationals…ran four years of track and a season each of cross country and basketball in high school…three-time all-country runner and Broward's Runner of the Year as a senior…1998 state champion in the 200 meters…high school ROTC cadet and class commander as a senior.