NAIROBI, Kenya – Alabama track and field star Doris Lemngole punched her ticket to next month’s World Athletics Championships as a member of Team Kenya.

While competing at the Athletics Kenya Trials in Nairobi, Lemngole clocked a coveted, top-two finish in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:24.69) to secure her place on the Kenyan national team for the international event, held Sept. 13-21, in Tokyo.

The 2025 Bowerman finalist concluded her sophomore year by defending her steeplechase national title, becoming the first student-athlete in women’s collegiate history to run a sub-9:00 time of 8:58.15.

About Lemngole

• First-career appearance as a member of the Kenyan national team
• Four-time NCAA champion

  • 2024 outdoor steeplechase, 2024 cross country, 2025 indoor 5,000m, 2025 outdoor steeplechase

• Five-time SEC champion

  • 2024 outdoor steeplechase, 2024 cross country, 2025 indoor 3,000m, 2025 outdoor steeplechase, 2025 outdoor 5,000m

• Alabama’s first-ever The Bowerman finalist
• 2025 Honda Sport Award winner for Cross Country and finalist for the Honda Sport Award for Track and Field
• Eight-time All-American
• Swept Southeastern Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors during the 2024-25 season (cross country, indoor, outdoor)