2020-21 Track & Field Roster
Sanga, Purity
Purity Sanga
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- High School:
- Tartar Girls High School
- Hometown:
- Kapsabet, Kenya
- Prev School:
- Tennessee Tech
Bio
Purity Sanga TFRRS Profile
CAREER HONORS
• 2021 ACC Indoor 5000m Bronze Medalist
• 2021 ACC Outdoor 10,000m Silver Medalist
• First Team All-ACC Indoor Performer (5000m)
• First Team All-ACC Outdoor Performer (10,000m)
• All-ACC Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022)
2021-22
Did not compete in the indoor or outdoor seasons… Named to the All-ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Cross Country: Competed in three meets… Ran a three-mile time of 17:34.1 to finish fourth at the Tennessee Cross Country Invitational.
2020-21
Indoor: ACC Indoor 5000m Bronze Medalist with a time of 16:17.90… First Team All-ACC Performer… Competed in five meets in the 3000m, 5000m and mile during the regular season… Tallied one win and three additional top-three finishes… Clocked her personal-best 5000m time of 16:11.62 in a third place finish at the Music City Challenge… Placed third in the mile with a career-best time of 4:53.10 at the Lenny Lyles Invitational… Achieved her career-best time of 9:33.67 in the 3000m at the ACC Indoor Championships, finishing 17th… Began her indoor career at Louisville by winning the 3000m at the McCravy Green Invitational with a time of 9:44.69… All-ACC Women’s Indoor Track and Field Academic Team selection.
Outdoor: ACC Outdoor 10,000m Silver Medalist with a time of 32:49.07 – which stands third on Louisville’s all-time list… All-ACC first team performer… Registered her season-best time of 16:15 in the 5000m at the ACC Outdoor Championships to place 13th – that time stands fourth in Louisville’s record book… Qualified for NCAA East Region Preliminary Round in the 10,000m… Competed in four meets during the regular season in the 1500m, 5000m and 10,000m… Collected three wins and two runner-up finishes… Opened the outdoor season with a personal-best time of 4:29.41 in the 1500m to win the Louisville Invitational… Claimed the 10,000m at the Tennessee Relays with a time of 34:05.91… Notched a win in the 5000m at the Clark Wood Invitational (16:36.69)… Posted a runner-up finish in the 1500m at the Tennessee Challenge (4:29.80… ACC Academic Honor Roll member.
Cross Country: 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 (sophomore year 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 (freshman year 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.
Personal: Parents are Monica Biwot and the late Peter Sanga ...Born on Jan. 22, 1997 … Majoring in nursing.
CAREER HONORS
• 2021 ACC Indoor 5000m Bronze Medalist
• 2021 ACC Outdoor 10,000m Silver Medalist
• First Team All-ACC Indoor Performer (5000m)
• First Team All-ACC Outdoor Performer (10,000m)
• All-ACC Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022)
2021-22
Did not compete in the indoor or outdoor seasons… Named to the All-ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Cross Country: Competed in three meets… Ran a three-mile time of 17:34.1 to finish fourth at the Tennessee Cross Country Invitational.
2020-21
Indoor: ACC Indoor 5000m Bronze Medalist with a time of 16:17.90… First Team All-ACC Performer… Competed in five meets in the 3000m, 5000m and mile during the regular season… Tallied one win and three additional top-three finishes… Clocked her personal-best 5000m time of 16:11.62 in a third place finish at the Music City Challenge… Placed third in the mile with a career-best time of 4:53.10 at the Lenny Lyles Invitational… Achieved her career-best time of 9:33.67 in the 3000m at the ACC Indoor Championships, finishing 17th… Began her indoor career at Louisville by winning the 3000m at the McCravy Green Invitational with a time of 9:44.69… All-ACC Women’s Indoor Track and Field Academic Team selection.
Outdoor: ACC Outdoor 10,000m Silver Medalist with a time of 32:49.07 – which stands third on Louisville’s all-time list… All-ACC first team performer… Registered her season-best time of 16:15 in the 5000m at the ACC Outdoor Championships to place 13th – that time stands fourth in Louisville’s record book… Qualified for NCAA East Region Preliminary Round in the 10,000m… Competed in four meets during the regular season in the 1500m, 5000m and 10,000m… Collected three wins and two runner-up finishes… Opened the outdoor season with a personal-best time of 4:29.41 in the 1500m to win the Louisville Invitational… Claimed the 10,000m at the Tennessee Relays with a time of 34:05.91… Notched a win in the 5000m at the Clark Wood Invitational (16:36.69)… Posted a runner-up finish in the 1500m at the Tennessee Challenge (4:29.80… ACC Academic Honor Roll member.
Cross Country: 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 (sophomore year 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 (freshman year 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.
Personal: Parents are Monica Biwot and the late Peter Sanga ...Born on Jan. 22, 1997 … Majoring in nursing.
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