KENNEBUNK — For four years Kennebunk’s Abbey Leonardi has dominated girls cross country running in Maine. For four years she has won state titles, regional titles and New England titles.

None of that changed this fall season.

Leonardi, who will graduate in the spring from Kennebunk High School, won her fourth straight Class A girls cross country title this season, making her the Journal Tribune’s 2011 Cross Country Runner of the Year.

Leonardi won that title on Oct. 29. She dominated the field finishing the 3.1-mile course at Twin Brooks in Cumberland in 18:27.19. The second place finisher, Erzsebet Nagy of Lawrence, finished the race in 18:59.19.

The temperatures that day were in the 40s, but it didn’t slow down Leonardi, who a week earlier won her third Western Maine Class A title on a muddy Twin Brooks course.

She won that race with a time of 18:05.59. That was more than one minute and 10 seconds faster than Cheverus’s Fiona Hendry, who finished the race in 19:57.27.

“I didn’t race as fast as I wanted to because it was wet,” Leonardi said. “It wasn’t easy because it was slippery, but I feel like I raced well.”

After that race, Leonardi raced off to make several college visits.

She has been mum on her possible college choices, but should have a decision within the next few months. NCAA signing deadlines for cross country are not until February.

— Contact Al Edwards at 282-1535, Ext. 323.