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Chris Cherono

Chris Cherono - Men's Cross Country - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
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Major Biomedical Engineering
Hometown Eldoret, Kenya
Last School Grayson High School (Loganville, Ga.)
Year Fifth Year
Chris Cherono - Men's Cross Country - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Chris Cherono Career Stats

Awards & Honors:

2023 CSC Academic All-District Team
2022 ACC All-Academic Cross Country

2024 Cross Country: Ran the 4 mile (19:58.67) at the Kennesaw State Stan Sims XC Opener … Competed in the 8k at the Southern Showcase (25:30.0) and ACC Cross Country Championships (25:28.1)

2024 Outdoor: Competed in five meets … At the Yellow Jacket Invitational, assisted the 4×400 relay team to an eighth-place finish (3:30.18) 

2024 Indoor: Competed in three meets … At the Clemson Invitational, competed in the 3000m, running a time of (8:45.13) 

2023 Cross Country: Competed in six meets … NCAA Cross Country Championship participant … At the Stan Sims Cross Country Opener, ran a time of (15:22.9) recorded a new PR in the 5k … At the NCAA Cross Country Championship, ran a person best time of (31:24.7) in the 10k 

2023 Outdoor: Competed in seven meets … Finished seventh in the 5000m (14:54.22, PR) and 12th in the 800m (1:55.43) at the Yellow Jacket Invite … Placed third in the 1500m (3:53.05) at the FSU Relays … Came in second place in the 800m (1:53.17) at the Spec Towns Invite … Seventh in the 1500m (3:47.39) at the Georgia Tech Invite … Part of the 4xMile relay team that broke the school record at the Penn Relays with a time of 16:36.28 … Recorded a PR and finished 22nd in the 1500m preliminaries (3:47.03) at the ACC Outdoor Championships

2023 Indoor: Competed in three meets … PR’d in the 3000m (8:28.14) at the Vanderbilt Invite … Finished seventh with a PR in the mile (4:09.69) at the South Carolina Invite … Placed sixth in the mile (4:11.01) at the Tiger Paw Invite

2022 Cross Country: Raced in six meets … Finished 12th in the 8K (25:39.2) at the Berry Watermelon Run … Set a PR in the 8K (24:33.8) at the Lehigh Paul Short Run … 29th place in the 5.2 Mile (26:05.1) at the PSU National Open … Competed in the 8K (24:55.0) at the ACC Championships

2022 Outdoor: Competed in four meets … Earned an eighth-place finish in the 1500m (3:56.43) at the Florida State Relays … Ran a personal-best time in the 1500m (3:53.82) at the Georgia Tech Invite … Finished sixth in the 1500m (3:53.90) and ninth in the 800m (1:53.08, PR) at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial Invite

2022 Indoor: Competed in five meets … 13th-place finish in the 1000m (2:29.79) at the Clemson Orange & Purple Elite … Finished fourth in the 800m (1:54.31) and ninth in the 1000m with a PR of 2:29.48 at the Commodore Indoor meet … Earned a fifth-place finish in the mile by running a personal-best time of 4:11.36 at the Tiger Paw Invite

2021 Cross Country: Raced in four meets … Finished 10th in the 6K with a PR of 18:49.3 at the Kennesaw State Opener … Set a personal best in the 5.2-mile race (27:10.3) at the PSU National Opener … PR’d in the 8K (25:52.9) at the ACC Championships

2021 Outdoor: Did not compete

2021 Indoor: Saw action in five regular season meets … Recorded a new PR in the men’s 3K race at the South Carolina Invite with a time of 8:35.20 … Competed in the men’s mile at the Bob Pollack Invite, finishing with a time of 4:21.78 … Opened the indoor season with a 2:39.24 effort in the men’s 100m at the Orange & Purple Elite Meet

2020 Cross Country: Competed at three meets … Posted a personal best mark in the men’s 8K at the FSU Invite after recording a time of 25:53 to secure a 55th-place finish … Clocked in at 26:09 in the men’s 8K at the UAB Blazer Classic … Started the year off with a 26:30 performance in the men’s 8K at the Mountain Dew Gator Cross Country Invite

High School: Ran at Grayson High School in Loganville, Georgia … Member of Region 8 7A Area Championship team in 2018 … 2018 Powerade All-Metro Cross Country

Personal: Picked Tech because of notable Bioengineering Program, great XC/TF program, opportunity and networking … Plays the Guitar and Violin … Involved in volunteer work in his community

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