2022 Track and Field Roster

Kwanele Mthembu

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Prev School Cloud County Community College

Biography

Season and Career Bests
ACCOLADES
- NCAA Championships Qualifier
- NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary Qualifier
- 2021 Sun Belt Men's Cross Country Newcomer of the Year
- 2021 Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Track and Field Newcomer of the Year
- 2020-21All-Sun Belt Conference Indoor Third Team (5,000 meters)
- 2021 All-Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Third Team (10,000 meters)
- 2020-21 Sun Belt Conference Academic Honor Roll
 
2021 OUTDOOR
NCAA qualifier… placed in the 10,000 meters at the NCAA Division I West Preliminary Round… seven top-ten finishes and three first-place finishes… 10,000 meters Sun Belt Conference Champion with a career-best time… set two career-best times in the mile (finished first) and 3000 (finished third) at the KSU DeLoss Dodds Invitational… finished third in the 5000 at the Drake Relays and 25th in the 1500 meters at the Michael Johnson Invitational, both event times being career-bests.
 
2021 INDOOR
Finished third in the 5000 meters and tenth in the 3000 at the Sun Belt Track & Field Championships.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL
Transfer from Cloud County Community College...earned NJCAA Honorable Mention All-American honors after placing fourth in the 5,000 meters in 15:28.29 and sixth-place  in the 10,000 meters at the 2019 NJCAA DI Outdoor Championships...finished second in the 10,000 meters with a time of 30:40.26 and fourth in the 5,000 meters in 15:13.02 at the 2019 NJCAA Region VI Championships...finished fifth in the 10,000 meters at the Kansas Relays...had a ninth-place showing in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:15.03 at the Arkansas Spring Invitational...placed sixth in the 3,000 meters in a season-best 8:31.73 and seventh in the 5,000 meters with a season-best time 14:41.86 in the 5,000 meters at the NJCAA Indoor Championships...placed third in the mile and fourth in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the NJCAA Region VI Indoor meet...had a season-best time 4:22.18 in the mile at the Northwest Missouri Bearcat Invitational...finished 11th at the 2019 NJCAA Division I Cross Country Championships.

Historical Player Information

  • 2013-2014Junior

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  • 2021Junior

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  • 2022Senior

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