Pamela Kosgei TFRRS Results

Pamela Kosgei World Athletics Profile

Awards

NCAA CHAMPION – Outdoor Track & Field – 5,000m – 2025

NCAA CHAMPION – Outdoor Track & Field – 10,000m – 2025

Finalist for The Bowerman - 2025

Mountain West + Program Record Holder – Indoor Track & Field – Mile (4:30.68@)

Mountain West + Program Record Holder – Indoor Track & Field – 3,000m (8:44.62)

Mountain West + Program Record Holder – Indoor Track & Field – 5,000m (15:00.36)

No. 4 NCAA All-Time – Indoor Track & Field – 5,000m (15:00.36)

USTFCCCA First Team All-American – Indoor Track & Field – 5,000m – 2025

USTFCCCA Second Team All-American – Indoor Track & Field – 3,000m – 2025

USTFCCCA First Team All-American – Cross Country – 2024

USTFCCCA First Team All-American – Cross Country – 2025

NCAA Runner-Up – Cross Country – 2024

Mountain Regional Champion – Cross Country – 2024

Mountain Regional Runner-Up – Cross Country – 2025

USTFCCCA Mountain Region Athlete of the Year – 2024

USTFCCCA Co-Athlete of the Week – 10/21/24

Honda Sports Award Finalist – Cross Country – 2024

Mountain West CHAMPION – Indoor Track & Field – 5,000m – 2025

Mountain West CHAMPION – Indoor Track & Field – 3,000m – 2025

Mountain West CHAMPION – Indoor Track & Field – Mile – 2025

Mountain West CHAMPION – Outdoor Track & Field – Steeplechase – 2025

Mountain West CHAMPION – Outdoor Track & Field – 5,000m – 2025

Mountain West All-Conference – Indoor Track & Field – 2025

Mountain West All-Conference – First Team – Cross Country – 2024

Mountain West CHAMPION – Cross Country – 2024

Mountain West CHAMPION – Cross Country – 2025

Mountain West Freshman & Athlete of the Year – Cross Country – 2024

Mountain West Athlete of the Year – Cross Country – 2025

Mountain West Freshman / Athlete of the Week – Cross Country – 10/8/2024

Mountain West Freshman / Athlete of the Week – Cross Country – 10/22/2024

Mountain West Freshman / Athlete of the Week – Indoor Track – 12/10/2024

Mountain West Freshman / Athlete of the Week – Indoor Track – 1/28/2025

2024-25

Outdoor Track & Field (Freshman): Capped an undefeated collegiate outdoor season with titles in the 5000 and 10,000 at the NCAA DI Outdoor Championships. The 10k victory came first in meet-record time with the No. 3 all-time collegiate performance time of 31:17.82 — she has No. 2 at 31:02.73. In the 5,000m, she moved to No. 2 all-time collegiately in winning April’s Bryan Clay Invitational in 14:52.45, missing the CR by just 0.27 seconds. In between her 10k and 5k PRs she won the steeple at the Stanford Invitational in 9:15.93, then No. 2 and now No. 3 all-time collegiately. She had another impressive 10,000 performance, winning the Don Kirby Tailwind Twilight by over five minutes in 31:58.51 – at 5120 feet (1560 meters) of altitude in Albuquerque in registering the fastest time for any woman at high altitude outside of Africa. Indoors she was third in the NCAA DI 5000 before taking 11^th in the 3000.

Indoor Track & Field (Freshman): Two weeks after NCAA Championships, opened up the indoor season with a new indoor program record in the 5,000m (15:00.36), a time that ranks No. 4 on the indoor NCAA all-time list … Earned MW Freshman & Athlete of the Week honors for that race … Broke the UNM indoor mile record in her next race at the Dr. MLK Invite on Jan. 25, clocking a 4:30.68 conversion with a 4:36.70 raw time that stands as the fastest in collegiate history at altitude … Won MW Freshman & Athlete of the Week again the Tuesday following as a result.

Cross Country (Freshman): NCAA National Runner-Up …. USTFCCCA First Team All-American … USTFCCCA Mountain Region Athlete of the Year … Honda Sport Award Finalist … Mountain West Freshman & Athlete of the Year … Won each of her first four races, including a new course record at Wisconsin Pre-Nationals (18:59.1) and Mountain West and Mountain Region individual titles … Finished second in her first NCAA Championship race to lead the Lobo women to a seventh-place team finish (19:27.8).

2023-24

Outdoor Track & Field: Joined the Lobos for the summer session, competing in the 3,000m steeplechase at the PDX Track Festival in a Lobo uniform … Finished second only to three-time NCAA Champion Allie Ostrander with a 9:28.88 time in that race.

St. Agatha Mokpo Girls School

One of the most accomplished distance stars in the world under the age of 20 … third-place individual finisher at the U20 World Cross Country Championships in 2023 and a U20 African champion and senior Kenyan national champ in the 3,000m steeplechase… the sister of world marathon record holder Brigid Kosgei, who won the 2018 and 2019 Chicago Marathons, the 2019 and 2020 London Marathons and the 2021 Tokyo Marathon before earning silver in the event at the Tokyo Olympics … says her sister encouraged her to choose the college route and use her talent to get an education in America.

Pamela Kosgei & Darren Gauson: 2025 Bowerman Presentation Interviews

Pamela Kosgei & Darren Gauson: 2025 Bowerman Presentation Interviews