ON THE MOVE

Anicia Rimm of Ventura College has lived in Sacramento, Albany, Ga., Green Bay, Wis., Greenville, S.C., Tallahassee, Fla., and Oxnard during her first 20 years.

She will move to Chicago with her parents next week.

Before doing that, she will compete in the long jump and 100 meters in the state junior college track and field championships at Citrus College today and Saturday.

Rimm, who graduated from Ventura with her Associate in Arts degree on Thursday, will compete in the long jump at 5 p.m. today and in the 100 at 7:15 on Saturday night.

“I want to jump over 19 feet for sure,” Rimm said of the long jump. “And I want to win the 100. I don’t care about the time.”

Talk of winning the state 100 title would have seemed ludicrous even three months ago. But Rimm has improved rapidly after playing shooting guard for Ventura’s basketball team that finished second in the state championships in March.

“She wanted to make this a special season,” said Ventura men’s Coach Frank Jackson, who works with the school’s sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers. “She felt that last season she just held back a lot.”

Rimm agreed.

“I wanted to have more fun this year and I wanted to win more,” she said. “I knew I wouldn’t have as much time to work out as some of the other girls, but I still thought I could compete with them.”

That thinking led to a change in attitude about the 1,600 relay.

Rimm loathed the 1,600 relay last year, but realized running in it this year would improve her performances in other events.

“Running those 400s and the 200 has made her stronger,” Jackson said. “She fussed about running in the [1,600] relay last year, but this year, she said, ‘I’m going to listen to you.’ ”

The extra work helped her post career bests of 11.93 seconds in the 100, 25.61 in the 200 and 18 feet 7 1/4 inches in the long jump.

The sprint times are huge improvements over Rimm’s preseason bests of 12.58 in the 100 and 26.61 in the 200, and the long jump mark is nearly five inches better than her best from last year.

Rimm says playing basketball might have something to so with her improved marks. Although doing so prevented her from taking part in conventional track practice during the fall and winter months, she “ran and ran and ran” during basketball practice.

Rimm, a 1996 graduate of Oxnard High, didn’t play basketball for Ventura during the 1996-97 season because she attended classes at Florida A&M; during the fall semester. She enjoyed life at the Tallahassee school, but transferred to Ventura because she was homesick.

“I just really missed my family,” Rimm said.

The return home gave her a chance to work with Jackson, who guided her to second place in the long jump and third in the 100 in the 1997 Western State Conference championships.

She finished fourth in the long jump and sixth in the 100 in the Southern California championships, and third in the long jump in the state meet.

Rimm got a late start in track this year because Ventura’s basketball season didn’t end until March 14, but it hasn’t seemed to hurt her performances.

She won the 100 in 11.95, the 200 in 26.10 and the long jump at 18-6 1/2 in the WSC championships at Santa Barbara City College on April 25.

She won the 100 in 11.93, finished third in the long jump at 18-7 1/4 and placed seventh in the 200 in 25.73 in the Southern California championships at Cerritos College last Saturday.

The 100 and long jump marks broke Rimm’s school records, but Jackson said she’s capable of topping those performances.

“There is more there in the 100,” Jackson said. “And if she puts everything together in the long jump, we’re going 20 feet. . . . If we get the run and she gets to the board correctly, she’s 20 feet and change.”

A 20-foot jump would be an astounding improvement for someone with a best of 18-7 1/4, but Jackson says it’s possible because Rimm didn’t hit the takeoff board well last week.

He points out that she went 18-7 1/4 despite taking off six or seven inches behind the eight-inch wide board.

No matter what happens today and Saturday, Rimm will focus on track for the rest of her college career, no matter where that might be.

“I’m done with basketball,” she said. “I’ve played basketball and run track since I was in the fifth grade so I don’t really know how good I can be because I’ve never [trained for track] during the fall. I’ve only run after basketball season and I’ve never really worked out with weights. I’m interested to see what I can do.”

On Track

* What: State Junior College track and field championships.

* Where: Citrus College.

* When: Today, field events start at 10:30 a.m., heptathlon at noon, decathlon at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, decathlon starts at 11 a.m., heptathlon at 1 p.m., field events at 3:30, running events at 5:30.

* Admission: $5 for adults. $3 for students with ID and children 12 and under.