2019 Cross Country Roster
Purity Sanga
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- St. Theresa's Tartar Girls
- Hometown:
- Kapsabet, Kenya
- Prev School:
- Tennessee Tech
Purity Sanga TFRRS Profile
2020: Competed in four races with three top-10 finishes and two personal records… Placed eighth in the Irish Classic 5K with a time of 17:22.02… Finished third in the Live in Lou Cross Country Classic with a personal-best 5K time of 16:54.8… Won the Blazer Classic 6K with a personal-best mark of 20:43.04… Concluded the season with 23rd place (20:46.4) in the ACC Championship meet.
2019: Did not compete.
2018 at Tennessee Tech: Named Ohio Valley Conference Female Athlete of the Year and Female Athlete of the Championships … Crowned the OVC women’s individual champion and earned first-team all-conference honors after posting a 5K time of 17:07.1 at the league championship meet … Broke the Tennessee Tech 5K record three different times in 2018, and set the current standard with a time of 16:41.3 at the Greater Louisville Classic on Sept. 29 … Recorded her second straight all-region honor and recorded the program’s highest-ever individual regional finish, coming in seventh overall with a 6K time of 20:43.0 at the NCAA South Regional … Qualified for the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive year, where she ran the 6K in 21:19.3 on Nov. 17.
2017 at Tennessee Tech: Qualified for the NCAA Championships after finishing eighth at the NCAA South Regional with a 6K time of 20:16.4 ... Set the second-best 5K time in Tennessee Tech history at the OVC Championships with a time of 17:31.0 for sixth place overall and a First Team All-OVC distinction ... Named OVC Female Freshman of the Year ... Recorded four top-10 finishes on the season.
Prep/High School: Competed for St. Theresa's Tartar Girls School in Kapsabet, Kenya.
Personal: Parents are Monica Biwot and the late Peter Sanga ...Born on Jan. 22, 1997 … Majoring in nursing.
