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2025 Women's Cross Country Roster

Rylea Borgic

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Newton
  • Hometown Newton, Ill.
  • Major Nutrition and Dietetics

Biography

STATS

2025 - 1st Team All-OVC (Steeplechase) - Outdoor Track
2024 - 2nd Team All-OVC (Steeplechase) - Outdoor Track
2024 - 2nd Team All-OVC (DMR - 1st Leg) - Indoor Track 

EIU CROSS COUNTRY
2024 (JUNIOR):
Competed in five meets during the 2024 cross country season missing the Bradley "Pink" Classic due to injury... opened season with a 4th place finish at the EIU Walt Crawford with a 5K time of 19:10.5... season best 5K performance was 18:48.3 at the Louisville Classic... placed 20th at the OVC Championships with a 6K time of 22:44.1 which was top 6K time for the year... placed 185th at the NCAA Midwest Regional with a 6K time of 22:54.78... OVC Academic Medal of Honor...

2023 (SOPHOMORE): Competed in all six meets during the 2023 cross country season... placed 23rd at the Ohio Valley Conference Championships with a 6K time of 22:38.65 helping EIU win second straight team championship... was 209th at the NCAA Regional with a 6K time of 24:26.2... season best 6K time was at the OVC Championship... season best finish was 15th at the season opening EIU Walt Crawford... best 5K time of the year was 19:02.6 at the Louisville Classic... OVC Academic Medal of Honor...

2022 (FRESHMAN): Was a member of EIU track and field team, did not compete in cross country... 

EIU TRACK & FIELD
2025:
Competed in indoor and outdoor track during the 2025 season... INDOOR: Competed in five meets during the season running the mile and 3,000 meter run... closed season competing only in the indoor mile with a season best time of 5:10.08 at the Grand Valley Big Meet... scored points at the OVC Indoor Championships in the 800 meter (8th) and on the Distance Medley Relay (5th)... OUTDOOR: Competed in six meets during the outdoor season... first team All-OVC after winning the steeplechase with a time of 10:59.53 with that time ranked eighth on the EIU career top ten... posted an additional first place in the steeplechase at the Illinois State Normal Invite with a winning time of 11:09.56... ran the 1,500 meter twice with a season best time of 4:42.87 at the Illinois Gary Wieneke Invite... OVC Academic Medal of Honor...

2024: Competed in indoor and outdoor track during the 2024 season... INDOOR: Competed in six meets during the indoor season... had multiple career bests, including the mile race at the Ohio Valley conference with a time of 5:08.63... best 800 meter time was 2:22.02 at the IUPUI Invite... season best 3,000 meter time was 10:36.40 at the Notre Dame Invite... earned second team All-OVC as member of the DMR team at the Ohio Valley Conference Championships with a time of 12:07.68... OUTDOOR... Competed in five meets during the outdoor season... scored points in the OVC Championship with a second place finish in the steeplechase to earn second team All-OVC honors, had a time of 11:08.95 which also marks personal best and enters ninth in the EIU record book... personal best 1,500 meter time was 4:48.51 at the Gibson Invite... season best 5,000 meter time was 18:30.41 at the Eastern Illinois Big Blue... OVC Academic Medal of Honor...

2023: Competed in indoor and outdoor track during the 2023 season... INDOOR: Competed in five meets during the indoor season... ran the 800 meter and DMR events during the season competing in the 800 meter run at the Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championship... best indoor 800 meter time was 2:22.82 at the OVC meet... OUTDOOR: Competed in five meets during the outdoor season... scored points in the steeplechase with a fifth place finish at the OVC Outdoor Championships... season best steeplechase time of 11:33.77 at OVC meet... also ran the 800 meter and 1500 meter events during the outdoor season... top 800 meter time was 2:21.85 at the Illini Challenge... top 1500 meter time was 5:06.38 at the EIU Big Blue... OVC Academic Medal of Honor...

HIGH SCHOOL: Competed in track at Newton HS... advanced to the IHSA Class 1A State Championships in four events as a senior running the 100 hurdles, 300 hurdles, 800 meters and 4x400 relay... ran third leg on 4x400 relay team that placed seventh in the state with a finals time of 4:14.01... placed second at the Altamont Sectional in both the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles.. had a sectional 100 hurdle time of 17.06 and 300 hurdle time of 50.40... advanced to the IHSA 1A State Championships as a junior with team finishing third in the state with a time of 4:12.61...

Historical Player Information

  • 2023Sophomore

  • 2024Junior

  • 2025Senior

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