{"id":170495,"date":"2026-02-18T23:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170495\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:52:17","slug":"jepkosgei-goes-back-to-back-with-wac-itf-weekly-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170495\/","title":{"rendered":"Jepkosgei Goes Back-to-Back with WAC ITF Weekly Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     ARLINGTON, TX \u2013\u00a0UT Arlington&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/dorcas-jepkosgei\/14808\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14808\" target=\"_blank\">Dorcas Jepkosgei<\/a> has earned Western Athletic Conference weekly honors for the second consecutive week after her performance at the Jarvis Scott Invitational.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFreshman standout <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/dorcas-jepkosgei\/14808\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14808\" target=\"_blank\">Dorcas Jepkosgei<\/a> continues an impressive indoor season showing, as she earned\u00a0third place in the women&#8217;s mile, clocking in a\u00a0time of 4:53.31. The freshman ranks second in the WAC for the women&#8217;s mile.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n2025-26 University Credit Union WAC Men&#8217;s Indoor Track &amp; Field Weekly Awards<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMEN&#8217;S INDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>\nDavid Mvundura, Sr., Tarleton State (Feb. 18)<br \/>\nAndruw Villa, So., Abilene Christian (Feb. 11)<br \/>\nCa&#8217;terrin Cox, Jr., Tarleton State (Feb. 4)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/daniel-armstrong\/14767\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14767\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Armstrong<\/a>, Jr., UT Arlington (Jan. 21)<br \/>\nAlex Hartshorn, So., Utah Valley (Jan. 14)<br \/>\nMiguel Hall, Jr., Abilene Christian (Dec. 10)<\/p>\n<p>MEN&#8217;S INDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLokesh Sathyanathan, Gr., Tarleton State (Feb. 18)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nRhet Punt, Jr., Abilene Christian (Feb. 11)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLokesh Sathyanathan, Sr., Tarleton State (Feb. 4)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJacob Thomas, Sr., Tarleton (Jan. 21)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAndrew Turner, Jr., Utah Valley (Jan. 14)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLokesh Sathyanathan, Gr., Tarleton State (Dec. 10)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWOMEN&#8217;S INDOOR TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/dorcas-jepkosgei\/14808\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14808\" target=\"_blank\">Dorcas Jepkosgei<\/a>, Fr., UT Arlington (Feb. 18)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/dorcas-jepkosgei\/14808\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14808\" target=\"_blank\">Dorcas Jepkosgei<\/a>, Fr., UT Arlington (Feb. 11)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLauren Roy, Sr., Tarleton State (Feb. 4)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/emilia-mandl\/14812\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14812\" target=\"_blank\">Emilia Mandl<\/a>, Jr., UT Arlington (Jan. 21)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nReagan Doman, So., Utah Valley (Jan. 14)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMadelyn McFadden, Fr., Abilene Christian (Dec. 10)<\/p>\n<p>WOMEN&#8217;S INDOOR FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPrestina Ochonogor, So., Tarleton State (Feb. 18)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/eliza-lemberga\/14810\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14810\" target=\"_blank\">Eliza Lemberga<\/a>, Jr., UT Arlington (Feb. 11)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPrestina Ochonogor, So., Tarleton State (Feb. 4)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/sophia-allen\/14770\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14770\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Allen<\/a>, Jr., UT Arlington (Jan. 21)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMaddie Passmore, Jr., Utah Valley (Jan. 14)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSofia Degroot, Jr., Tarleton State (Dec. 10)<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mavericks will prepare for the WAC Indoor Track &amp; Field Championships, set for Friday, Feb. 27 through Saturday, Feb. 28.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>#BuckEm<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFollow the UTA track and field and cross country teams on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTAMAVSTFXC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utamavsTFXC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTAMavsTFXC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; ARLINGTON, TX \u2013\u00a0UT Arlington&#8217;s Dorcas Jepkosgei has earned Western Athletic Conference weekly honors for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-170495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}