Benard Sigei
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- Height:
- 5-6
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- Hometown:
- Bomett, Kenya
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- Year:
- Jr.
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- High School:
- Sagumerga HS
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- Previous School:
- Sugumerga HS
Bio
2018: A wildcard runner who finished in all five slots of the Tech lineup at least once during the year … posted a season-best eight-kilometer time of 24:36.2 at the Greater Louisville Classic on Sept. 29, which gave him a top-30 finish, and the program’s 12th fastest-time ever … came in sixth overall with a time of 24:39.21 at the Florida Mountain Dew Invitational on Sept. 22 … took a third top-15 result, placing 13th in 24:57.90 at the UAB Blazer Classic on Oct. 12 … came in fourth overall Sept. 8 at the Golden Eagle Invitational, recording the team’s second-fastest four-mile time, 20:34.9 … posted three 8K times that sit in the top 50 on Tech’s all-time list.
2017: Tech's No. 4 runner in four of five meets on the season ... came in 10th at TTU's Golden Eagle Invitational on September 2, posting a 6K time of 20:03.9 ... took an 8K season best at the OVC Championships on October 28, finishing as the team's No. 3 in 25:44.5 to place 44th overall.
2016: Sigei recorded a personal-best 6K time at the Golden Eagle Invitational, where he completed the race with a time of 19:22.7...recorded an 8K time of 25:39.41 at the Greater Louisville Classic on Oct. 1, which placed him 19th in the Tech record books...was a solid middle-of the-pack runner, recording four second-place, two third-place, and one fourth-place team finish for the Golden Eagles...finsihed 20th overall at the OVC Championships with an 8K time of 25:52.4...placed 63rd overall at the NCAA South Regionals with a 10K time of 32:22.1.
Personal: Sigei is a native of Bomet, Kenya ... majoring in accounting.
News mentions
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – In what has become almost a weekly occurrence this season, the 2018 Tennessee Tech cross country teams added more record book material at Friday morning’s NCAA South Region Championships. Purity Sanga re-established the program’s best individual finish, and the men’s team – led by Brannon Cheplak’s all-region performance – took seventh out of 24 teams, the best regional result in Wayne Angel’s tenure as head coach. Sanga’s six-kilometer time of 20-minutes, 43.0-seconds awarded her seventh place overall among 208 runners in the competition, and improved on the program’s top individual finish, which she set last year with an eighth-place result. Sanga, who continues to make her case as the best runner in Tech history for either gender, recorded her second all-region honor in as many seasons, and will also be headed to the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. Her qualification for the championship meet comes by virtue of being the No. 4 individual finisher not affiliated with a team that finished in the top two.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Following record-book performances at the OVC Championships, the Tennessee Tech cross country teams have spent the past week and a half recuperating and preparing to be at their best at the biggest meet of their season to date: the NCAA South Region Championships. The South regional races will be held Friday morning at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee, Fla., with the women’s six-kilometer competition kicking off the action at 7:30 a.m. CT. The men’s 10-kilometer run will follow, and is schedule for an 8:30 a.m. start.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Purity Sanga followed through on her billing as the top female runner in the Ohio Valley Conference this season, winning the individual league title on Saturday morning at the OVC Championships. The Tech men made their own statement in the second race of the event, taking a third-place team finish, the program’s best since 1967.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – An outstanding season for the Tennessee Tech cross country program has the potential to culminate in a storybook ending on Saturday morning when runners from all 12 Ohio Valley Conference institutions will meet in Cape Girardeau, Mo. to decide the league champions. For TTU, the OVC Championships will be the climax of meticulous preparation and five regular-season meets that have seen both the men’s and women’s teams progress tremendously.
MONTEVALLO, Ala. – If the prior weeks’ accomplishments weren’t enough proof, Tennessee Tech cross country left no doubt it’s ready for the OVC Championships in two weeks, as it turned in another round of spectacular performances at the UAB Blazer Classic Friday morning.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The accomplishments continued to rise for the Tennessee Tech cross country teams with the conclusion of the Greater Louisville Classic Saturday, as the men’s team claimed its highest finish ever at the event and Purity Sanga broke the program record for the 5K for the third straight week.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Tennessee Tech cross country team produced another set of headlines at the 2018 Florida Mountain Dew Invitational, as Purity Sanga clocked the first sub-17-minute 5K time in Tech history, and the men’s team replicated its runner-up finish from a season ago. One week after etching her name into the women’s record book with the best 5K time in TTU history, sophomore Purity Sanga outdid herself this time, burning up the track on UF’s Mark Bostick Golf Course with a time of 16-minutes, 41.58-seconds for her second consecutive runner-up overall finish.
NEW ORLEANS, La. – After an outstanding fourth-place showing at the Commodore Classic, the Tennessee Tech men’s cross country team caught the eyes of the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, coming in at No. 8 in the South Region rankings released Monday.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sophomore Purity Sanga is the new owner of the fastest women’s five-kilometer time in Tennessee Tech cross country history, and she sits alone at the top of the all-time list by a wide margin. Sanga came across the finish line in 17-minutes, 20.7-seconds, eclipsing Micayla Rennick’s old mark of 17:29.8 from October 29, 2016 by more than nine ticks of the clock.