Oklahoma State University Athletics
2026-27 Cowboy Cross Country & Track Roster
Roster
Kevin Kemboi
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Eldoret, Kenya
Personal Bests
Long Jump – 7.76m/25-5.5
Triple Jump – 17.00m/55-9*
* - School record heading into 2026-27 season
Honors and Awards
2026 Outdoor NCAA Triple Jump Runner-Up
2026 Outdoor First Team All-American – Triple Jump (2nd)
2026 Outdoor All-Big 12 – Long Jump (4th), Triple Jump (4th)
2026 Indoor Second Team All-American – Triple Jump (13th)
2026 Indoor All-Big 12 – Long Jump (3rd), Triple Jump (7th)
International Competition
Competes for his native Kenya on the international stage… Won the 2026 Kenyan Commonwealth Trials in the Triple Jump with a school-record leap of 17.00 meters and placed second in the Long Jump at 7.76 meters… Competed at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in the Triple Jump.
2026 Outdoors
Continued the momentum from his impressive freshman indoor season, winning his first outdoor meet in the Orange and Black with his leap of 16.34 meters in the Triple Jump at the Florida Relays… His mark won the meet by nearly a full meter and broke one of the longest-standing school records, as the previous record was set by E.B. Schaeffer of 15.55 meters in 1978… He picked up a second-place finish in the Long Jump at the Sooner Invitational with his mark of 7.68 meters to move him up to fourth in school history… Once again earned a pair of All-Big 12 honors in the Long and Triple Jump, taking fourth in both events with personal best marks of 7.69 and 16.63 (2.4) meters, respectively… His mark of 16.63 meters was the all-conditions school record at the time… However, he would go on to break it once again at the NCAA West First Round with his wind-legal leap of 16.64 meters, which qualified him for the NCAA Championships… At the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Kemboi would have the competition of his life thus far, finishing as the NCAA Runner-Up in the Triple Jump with a massive personal best of 16.84 meters, again breaking his own program record and becoming the second straight Cowboy to become an NCAA Silver medalist, joining former teammate Blair Anderson, who was the NCAA Runner-Up in the Long Jump in 2025.
2026 Indoors
In his first career meet as a Cowboy, Kemboi shattered the program record in the Triple Jump with his mark of 15.80 meters at the JD Martin Invitational… He would then go on to obliterate that mark at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational in New Mexico, winning the competition with a leap of 16.37 meters, breaking the school record entering the year by over a meter (15.34 meters set in 1987)… At the Big 12 Indoor Championships, Kemboi earned a pair of All-Big 12 honors as he placed third in the Long Jump and seventh in the Triple Jump... Qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the Triple Jump, where he earned second team All-America honors with his 13th-place finish.
