Projections don’t have Wichita State sophomore Winny Koskei very high for Saturday’s 6-kilometer race at the NCAA cross country championships in in Madison, Wis.
For those outside the WSU program, Koskei’s emergence this season has been a surprise. She wasn’t supposed to win the American Athletic Conference championship, but she did. She wasn’t supposed to be able to hang with the top runners in last week’s NCAA Midwest Regional, but she finished third.
Now Koskei wants to prove the projections wrong once again, as the Kenyan has her sights set on a top-40 finish on Saturday to achieve All-American status.