{"id":2088632,"date":"2025-10-13T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2088632"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:13:17","slug":"fayetteville-state-cross-country-competes-at-queens-royals-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fayetteville-state-cross-country-competes-at-queens-royals-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Fayetteville State Cross Country Competes at Queens Royals Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"sidearm-story-template-links hide-on-large\" aria-label=\"Story Links\">&#13;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"hide\">Story Links<\/h3>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sidearm-story-template-links-list\">&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<li>&#13;<br \/>\n                <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live.tdemingtiming.com\/meets\/57994\/teams\/1350936\" target=\"_blank\">Fayetteville State Results<\/a> &#13;\n            <\/li>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;\n    <\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p>                 <strong>CHARLOTTE, N.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Fayetteville State University&#8217;s cross country teams turned in strong performances at the Queens Royals Cross Country Challenge on Friday, highlighted by top-20 individual finishes from <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/faith-kiplimo\/3758\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3758\">Faith Kiplimo<\/a><\/dfn> and <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/brian-kiprop\/3763\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3763\">Brian Kiprop<\/a><\/dfn> in the women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s gold division races, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s 5,000-meter gold race, freshman <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/faith-kiplimo\/3758\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3758\">Faith Kiplimo<\/a><\/dfn> led the Lady Broncos with a 16th-place finish, clocking a time of 17:53.05, giving the Broncos a 9th-place finish. Sophomore Videlma Jebet followed in 39th place at 18:26.72, while <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/pelisha-kosgei\/3757\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3757\">Pelisha Kosgei<\/a><\/dfn> crossed the line at 18:59.81. Senior <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/repline-cheptoo\/3748\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3748\">Repline Cheptoo<\/a><\/dfn> (19:41.41), senior <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/nia-gibson\/3749\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3749\">Nia Gibson<\/a><\/dfn> (20:13.53), senior <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/ashley-bell\/3746\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3746\">Ashley Bell<\/a><\/dfn> (20:18.63), and senior <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/brenda-cheboi\/3747\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3747\">Brenda Cheboi<\/a><\/dfn> (20:28.84) rounded out the scoring for Fayetteville State, which finished ninth overall with 294 points.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Michigan captured the women&#8217;s team title with 39 points, followed by Catawba (47) and host Queens University of Charlotte (131).<\/p>\n<p>On the men&#8217;s side, sophomore <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/brian-kiprop\/3763\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3763\">Brian Kiprop<\/a><\/dfn> continued his standout season with a runner-up finish in the 8,000-meter gold race, posting a time of 24:15.29, giving the Broncos a 4th place finish. Fellow sophomore <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/franklin-kipchirchir\/3767\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3767\">Franklin Kipchirchir<\/a><\/dfn> was close behind in third at 24:16.13. <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/dominic-malel\/3764\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3764\">Dominic Malel<\/a><\/dfn> placed 17th in 25:03.03, while <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/ian-kiprono\/3766\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3766\">Ian Kiprono<\/a><\/dfn> (25:37.81) and sophomore <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/rowny-kipchirchir\/3768\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3768\">Rowny Kipchirchir<\/a><\/dfn> (26:37.50) completed the scoring for the Broncos, who placed fourth overall with 130 points.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman Collin Serem (140th, 28:07.00) and freshman <dfn><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsubroncos.com\/sports\/cross-country\/roster\/romeo-kipkosgei\/3877\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"3877\">Romeo Kipkosgei<\/a><\/dfn> (156th, 29:25.46) also competed for FSU.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte won the men&#8217;s team title with 42 points, followed by Catawba (66) and Augusta (99).<\/p>\n<p>Fayetteville State will return to action later this month as they continue preparations for the CIAA Cross Country Championships to be held October 23rd in Salem, VA..<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source fsubroncos.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Story Links &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Fayetteville State Results &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 Fayetteville State University&#8217;s cross country teams turned in strong performances at the Queens Royals Cross Country Challenge on Friday, highlighted by top-20 individual finishes from Faith Kiplimo and Brian Kiprop in the women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088633,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088632\/revisions\/2088633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}