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2025 Outdoor Results: Did not compete.

2025 Indoor Results: Did not compete.

2024 Results: Competed in one outdoor meet… Highest finished was 147^th place in the 5000 at the Raleigh Relays…

2024 Results: Did not compete during the indoor season

2024 Top Results:
5,000m – 2024 Raleigh Relays – 147th place – 17:19.82

2023 Results: Did not compete...Dean's List.

2022 Results: USTFCCCA Outdoor Track & Field Honorable Mention...First-Team All-MAC Outdoor Track & Field...Named MAC Track Athlete of the Week on April 27 following her runner-up performance in the 10K race the Virginia Challenge...Had five top-10 finishes and competed in seven meets...Had a podium finish at both the MAC Indoor Championships in the 5K (16:39.52/ 4th place) and the MAC Outdoor Championships in the 10K (33:49.76/ 1st place)...Finished ninth in the 10K at the NCAA East Regional Prelims in Bloomington, Ind...Finished 21st in the 10K at the NCAA National Championships in Eugene, Ore...Linga’s 10K (33:49.76) time ranks third on the Toledo all-time outdoor Top-10 list...Outdoor First Team All-MAC...Dean’s List.

2022 Top Performances:
5000m – MAC Indoor Championships – 4th place – 16:39.52 **PR**
10,000m – Virginia Challenge – 2nd place – 33:49.76 **PR**

2018-20 (Iowa Western CC): Won nine national junior college titles and was a three-time USTFCCCA National Junior College Athlete of the Year in track & field and cross country....Two-time national champion junior college champion in cross country...Two-time champion in the 3000m and 5K...Mile champion in indoor track in 2021...5K and 10K champion in 2021 outdoor track...Second in the 1500m in 2021 outdoor season...11-time USTFCCCA All-American...Six-time Iowa Community College Athletic Conference champion...Two-time cross country Region Athlete of the Year...Holds IWCC school records for cross county, indoor 5K, 3000m, mile, distance medley relay, outdoor 1500m, 5Kand 10K...Broke the 10K record by more than seven minutes...Named Academic All-Region for cross country in 2020.

Personal: Full name is Faith Chepengat Linga...Mother is Elizabeth...Has four brothers and four sisters...Major is public health.