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UTEP Miners

2018 Cross Country Roster

Michael Reese
Michael Reese

Lilian Koech

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Eldoret, Kenya

Biography

2018 C-USA Outstanding Senior
Conference USA Champion (2018)
Conference USA Championships Senior of the Meet (2018)
NCAA Division I Cross Country All-Region Honoree (2016)

All Conference USA First Team Honoree (2016, 2017, 2018)
All Conference USA Third Team Honoree (2015)
2016 Member of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll

 
2018 (SENIOR): Opened the season with a second-place finish at the Lobo Invitational, helping the women’s team claim the team title … notched another second-place at the Lori Fitzgerald Open in the 5K … clocked in at 20:40.5 at the Santa Clara Bronco in the 6K … placed fifth overall at the C-USA Championships in the 5K, earning first team honors … named Senior of the Meet at the conference championships … member of the 2018 C-USA Cross Country Championship team, which is the first conference title in program history.

2017 (JUNIOR): Ran a personal best of 17:13.4 at Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational in the 5K … notched a personal-best time of 20:22.4 in the 6K at the Adidas D1 Pre Nationals … received All-C-USA first team honors with a time of 17:19.1 in the 5K … finished first overall at the UNM Lobo Invitational in the 5K … clocked a 5K time of 17:22.69 at NMSU Kachina Classic to claim silver … took second at Lori Fitzgerald in the 4.7K … garnered C-USA Female Cross Country Athlete of the Week honor (9/5). 

2016 (SOPHOMORE): Ran a season-best 6K time of 20:54.30 to take 24th place at NCAA Mountain Regionals…claimed bronze overall in the 5K (17:81.1) at Conference USA Championship…registered fifth-place at NCAA Pre Nationals (6K/21:07.2) to help push the Miners to fourth-place overall… at Notre Dame Invite, was the lead runner throughout the entire race to take the crown in a course of 222 competitors, and earn a personal-best 5K time (17:15.6)…took first at the Kachina Classic in the 5K (17:34.36)…tallied a 5K readout of 19:07.6 (39th) at the UNM Lobo Invitational… garnered two C-USA Female Cross Country Athlete of the Week honors (9/20 and 10/4).
 
2015 (FRESHMAN): Took 11th place at the Conference USA Championships with a 5K time of 18:05.6 … tallied a 13th-place showing at the NCAA Pre Nationals with a 6K time of 21:10.7 … finished 37th at the NCAA Mountain Regionals with a 6K time of 22:00.64 … ran a personal best 5K time of 17:09.8 to place 28th at the Notre Dame Invitational … took gold at the Kachina Classic (18:05.36/5K) and the Lori Fitzgerald Classic (17:19.6/4.5K) … tallied silver at the 4.5K Texas Tech/NM State Dual with a readout of 17:27.00.
 
Personal: Daughter of Monicah Cheruiyot and Raymond Chesire … biomedical major … has five brothers and one sister … born in Iten, Kenya.

Historical Player Information

  • 2015Freshman

  • 2016Junior

  • 2017Junior

  • 2018Senior