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2019 Track & Field Roster

Lilian Koech

  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Eldoret, Kenya

Biography

2018 Outdoor All C-USA First Team (1500M)
2017 Outdoor All C-USA Second Team (1500M)
800M Outdoor All C-USA Second Team (2017,2018)
2018 Indoor All-C-USA Third Team (3,000m)

2018 indoor All-Conference USA First Team (MILE)
2018 C-USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
2015 Conference USA Outdoor Freshman of the Meet
2015 Conference USA Outdoor Co-Performer of the Meet

All-C-USA Second Team (800m & 1,500m)
 
2018 OUTDOOR: Claimed a gold and silver medal at the C-USA Championships in the 1,500m and 800m, respectively … opened the season with a fourth-place finish in the 400m with a personal best of 56.37 at the UTEP Springtime … took silver and bronze at the Texas Relays in the 800m and 1,500m, respectively  … finished first in the 800m at the Desert Heat Classic and Texas Invitational … earned an invitation to the NCAA West Preliminaries and finished 14th in the 1500m with a personal best of 4:18.65.

2018 INDOOR: Clinched first place at the Conference USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the mile (4:53.15) and the distance medley relay (11:38.18) as well as a third-place finish in the 3000m with a time of 9:39.56 … took gold at the Commodore Invitational with a clocking of 4:45.62 in the mile … secured a third place finish in the mile at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational with a time of 4:47.29 … claimed gold in the 800m with a readout of 2:12.26 at the Texas Tech Classic … achieved a season best of 10:03.01 in the mile to take 21st overall at the New Mexico Classic … competed at the 2018 Husky Classic placing 21st overall in the mile clocking in at 4:46.02.  

2017 OUTDOOR: Posted the 23rd-fastest collegiate time of the season in the 800m at the Brutus Hamilton Challenge clocking in at 2:04.68 … registered a time of 2:05.86 at the Jim Bush Collegiate Invitational in the 800m taking second place … finished ninth overall at the NCAA West Preliminaries advancing to the NCAA Championships in the 800m … notched two silver-medal finishes at the C-USA Championships in the 800m and 1,500m … helped the women’s team claim first conference outdoor title … recorded a personal best of 4:22.12 at Texas Relays in the 1,500m finishing second overall … took gold at the UTEP Invitational in the 1,500m.

2017 INDOOR: Redshirted.

2016 OUTDOOR: Redshirted.

2016 INDOOR: Captured gold in the mile at the C-USA Indoor Championships posting a time of 4:53.43 … recorded points in the mile, 800m and 3,000m, helping the women's team secure a team title … registered a personal-best time of 2:11.67 in the 800m prelims at the conference meet ... set a personal-best of 9:31.88 in the 3,000m at the Husky Classic ... took third place in the mile at the Texas A&M Invitational.

2015 OUTDOOR: Took gold in the 1,500m run (4:42.70) and 5,000m run (16:58.11) at the Conference USA Championships … clocked a personal best and seventh-fastest 5,000m run in program history at the Stanford Invitational with a time of 16:19.91 … notched a season-best of 4:26.24 in the 5,000m run at the Brutus Hamilton Challenge to take silver … won the 800m run at the Brutus Hamilton Challenge (2:11.61), UTEP Springtime (2:12.63), UTEP Twilight (2:15.18) and UTEP Invitational (2:17.70) … took gold in the 1,500m run at Texas Relays (4:32.03) and UTEP Springtime (4:33.76) … competed at the NCAA West Preliminaries in the 5,000m run … member of the women’s team that finished second at the Conference USA Championships.

2015 INDOOR: Member of the women’s team that captured the first conference title in program history … Clocked a personal best 3,000m run of 9:44.56 to finish second at the Conference USA Championships … finished fifth at the Conference USA Championships in the mile (5:01.79) … won gold in the Lobo Collegiate Open 3,000m run with a time of 10:21.36 … took bronze in the 3,000m run at the New Mexico Collegiate Invitational with a readout of 9:45.03 … placed 14th in the 5,000m run (16:26.62) at the star-studded Husky Classic … registered a personal best of 4:55.43 in the mile at the Texas A&M Invitational to place fifth.

PERSONAL: Daughter of Monicah Cheruiyot and Raymond Chesire … biomedical major … has five brothers and one sister … born in Iten, Kenya.

Historical Player Information

  • 2015Freshman

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  • 2016Sophomore

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  • 2017Redshirt Sophomore

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  • 2018Redshirt Junior

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  • 2019Redshirt Senior

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