2025 Cross Country Roster
Roster
Lenny Njoroge
- Position:
- Distance
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Topeka, Kan.
- High School:
- Topeka West
CAREER STATS
2025 OUTDOOR (R-Fr.)
Competed in four events for the Jayhawks … Opened the outdoor season with a third place finish in the 3000m at the Jayhawk Spring Fling … Placed 17th in the 5000m at both the Kansas Relays and the John Jacobs Collegiate Invitational … Set a personal best 5000m time of 15:01.83 with a third place finish at the Rock Chalk Classic.
2024-25 INDOOR (R-Fr.)
Set a personal best 3000m time at the Steve Miller Invitational with a time of 8:53.64 to place 11th.
2024 CROSS COUNTRY (R-Fr.)
Opened the season with an 11th place finish at the Bob Timmons Classic with a time of 19:17.1 ... Achieved 162nd place at the Gans Creek Classic with a time of 25:05.4 ... Placed 84th at Wisconsin Pre-Nationals with a time of 25:09.5 ... Set a new personal best 8k time of 24:20.14 at the Big 12 Championships.
2024 OUTDOOR (RS.)
Ran unattached … Placed tenth in the 5000m at the Kansas Relays … Finished in 4:07.35 in the 1500m at the Rock Chalk Invite to place 18th.
2023-24 INDOOR (RS.)
Ran unattached … Opened the season with a third place finish in the 3000m at the Bob Timmons Challenge … Helped his DMR team win at the Bob Timmons Challenge with a time of 10:39.24.
HIGH SCHOOL
Named the 2019 Mile-Split Top Returner of the Year... A two-time State Runner-Up...Holds the school record in the 5k...4-year varsity letter winner...Academically, was on the school Honor Roll.. Recognized as a Martin Luther King Living the Dream Scholar, Ellis Foundation Scholar, Trinity Presbyterian Scholar, and awarded the Seal of Biliteracy.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE KU?
"I chose Kansas because of the culture and brotherhood of Kansas XC, along with its legendary coaching staff and the system in place to help me pursue my athletic and academic dreams."
PERSONAL
Son of Francis Kimani and Joyce Kariuki … Has one sibling, sister Delaney … Plans to major in mechanical engineering.