Janet Kwambai
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- Height:
- 5-4
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- Hometown:
- Iten, Kenya
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- Year:
- Fr.
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- Previous School:
- AIC Laboret Girls' HS
Bio
2018: Named Ohio Valley Conference Co-Female Freshman of the Year … was in the Tech lineup for all seven meets, finishing as the team’s No. 2 runner at five of them … was the runner-up at the Golden Eagle Invitational on Sept. 8, completing the five-kilometer course in 19:10.3 … posted a season-best 5K time of 17:38.31 at the Florida Mountain Dew Invitational on Sept. 22, which ranks as the ninth-fastest in TTU program history … recorded three other 5K marks that rank in the top 50 on Tech’s all-time leaderboard … finished in the top 100 at the NCAA South Regional on Nov. 9, posting a six-kilometer time of 22:41.9 … never finished lower than 53rd overall at any meet prior to the South Regional race.
Personal: Kwambai hails from Iten, Kenya ... will pursue a degree in nursing.
News mentions
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Tennessee Tech men’s and women’s cross country teams have garnered All-Academic honors from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for the 2018 season. With this set of awards, the Tech women’s team has now been recognized three times in program history, while the men’s team has met the criteria in two different seasons. Teams must record a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better to be eligible.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – In what has become almost a weekly occurrence this season, the 2018 Tennessee Tech cross country teams added more record book material at Friday morning’s NCAA South Region Championships. Purity Sanga re-established the program’s best individual finish, and the men’s team – led by Brannon Cheplak’s all-region performance – took seventh out of 24 teams, the best regional result in Wayne Angel’s tenure as head coach. Sanga’s six-kilometer time of 20-minutes, 43.0-seconds awarded her seventh place overall among 208 runners in the competition, and improved on the program’s top individual finish, which she set last year with an eighth-place result. Sanga, who continues to make her case as the best runner in Tech history for either gender, recorded her second all-region honor in as many seasons, and will also be headed to the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. Her qualification for the championship meet comes by virtue of being the No. 4 individual finisher not affiliated with a team that finished in the top two.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Purity Sanga followed through on her billing as the top female runner in the Ohio Valley Conference this season, winning the individual league title on Saturday morning at the OVC Championships. The Tech men made their own statement in the second race of the event, taking a third-place team finish, the program’s best since 1967.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – An outstanding season for the Tennessee Tech cross country program has the potential to culminate in a storybook ending on Saturday morning when runners from all 12 Ohio Valley Conference institutions will meet in Cape Girardeau, Mo. to decide the league champions. For TTU, the OVC Championships will be the climax of meticulous preparation and five regular-season meets that have seen both the men’s and women’s teams progress tremendously.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – In what was most likely a unanimous decision, Tennessee Tech sophomore Purity Sanga was named the Ohio Valley Conference’s Cross Country Female Athlete of the Year, as announced by the league office Friday evening. During the same ceremony, teammate Janet Kwambai was honored for her impressive first season, as she earned Co-Female Freshman of the Year.
MONTEVALLO, Ala. – If the prior weeks’ accomplishments weren’t enough proof, Tennessee Tech cross country left no doubt it’s ready for the OVC Championships in two weeks, as it turned in another round of spectacular performances at the UAB Blazer Classic Friday morning.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The accomplishments continued to rise for the Tennessee Tech cross country teams with the conclusion of the Greater Louisville Classic Saturday, as the men’s team claimed its highest finish ever at the event and Purity Sanga broke the program record for the 5K for the third straight week.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Tennessee Tech cross country team produced another set of headlines at the 2018 Florida Mountain Dew Invitational, as Purity Sanga clocked the first sub-17-minute 5K time in Tech history, and the men’s team replicated its runner-up finish from a season ago. One week after etching her name into the women’s record book with the best 5K time in TTU history, sophomore Purity Sanga outdid herself this time, burning up the track on UF’s Mark Bostick Golf Course with a time of 16-minutes, 41.58-seconds for her second consecutive runner-up overall finish.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sophomore Purity Sanga is the new owner of the fastest women’s five-kilometer time in Tennessee Tech cross country history, and she sits alone at the top of the all-time list by a wide margin. Sanga came across the finish line in 17-minutes, 20.7-seconds, eclipsing Micayla Rennick’s old mark of 17:29.8 from October 29, 2016 by more than nine ticks of the clock.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After an impressive showing at the Golden Eagle Invitational to open the season, Tennessee Tech cross country will go on the road for the first time in 2018 for the Commodore Classic hosted by Vanderbilt University. The races will be run on the Vaughn’s Gap Cross Country Course at Percy Warner Park outside Nashville, with the men’s eight-kilometer race happening first at 9 a.m., followed by the women’s 5K at 10 a.m.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech cross country athletes won both of the Runner of the Week awards given out by the Ohio Valley Conference on Tuesday following Tech’s season-opening Golden Eagle Invitational Saturday.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – “Whose house is this!?” “TECH’S!” “Whose house is this!?” “TECH’S!” “Whose house is this!?” “TECH’S!” So went the chant led by coach Wayne Angel prior to the men’s four-mile cross country race on Saturday morning at the Putnam County Sports Complex. The idea, obviously, was that both the TTU men’s and women’s cross country teams were coming into the race intending to defend their home turf, and when the results came out, that’s exactly what they had done.