[6] She headed Team USA to the gold with a win at the Americas Cross Country Championships – she won the NACAC-endorsed competition over a 6 km course at the Mt.

Irvine Resort in Tobago, beating several other Americans who had previously beaten her in qualifying at the USA Cross Country National Championships.

On May 7, 2017, DiCrescenzo won the women's division of Southwest Half Marathon held in Palos Heights with a time of 1:21:31, which was nearly seven minutes ahead of the second-place finisher.

[12] She is the subject of the Plain White T's 2006 song "Hey There Delilah",[3] which reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007.

She had met Plain White T's singer Tom Higgenson through a mutual friend.