Distance runner Kirami Yego transfers to Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE – Kenyan Kirami Yego has signed to transfer to Arkansas from South Alabama and will join the Razorbacks for the 2023-24 season. Yego earned a cross country All-America honor in 2022 and collected 11 Sun Belt titles during his time with the Jaguars.

Career best marks for Yego include 3:49.96 (1500), 4:08.05 (mile), 8:07.53/8:09.39 indoor (3000), 13:34.50/13:38.45 indoor (5000), and 28:22.94 (10,000).

Recently Yego finished 11th in the NCAA 10,000m in Austin, posting a time of 28:57.61. During the outdoor season he established career best times in four consecutive races.

Yego won the 3,000m at the South Alabama Invitational, then claimed the 10,000m at the Raleigh Relays. Racing in the Bryan Clay Invitational, Yego finished eighth in the 5,000m. Then he placed fifth in the 1,500m at the Crimson Tide Invitational.