Joyce Kimeli TFRRS Profile
Honors & Awards
2022 Outdoor USTFCCCA Second Team All-American (3000m Steeplechase)
2022 Outdoor All-SEC First Team (3000m Steeplechase)
AUSPYs Virgil Starks Passion Award
2022 Indoor All-SEC Second Team (5000m)
2021 USTFCCCA All-Region (XC)
2021 First Team All-SEC Cross Country
2021 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
2021 NCAA Indoor National Champion (5000m)
2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (XC)
2021 USTFCCCA All-American (XC)
2021 South Region Track Athlete of the Year
2021 USTFCCCA Outdoor First Team All-America (3000m steeplechase, 5000m)
2021 Outdoor All-SEC Second Team (3000m steeplechase, 5000m)
2021 USTFCCCA Indoor First Team All-America (3000m, 5000m)
2021 Indoor All-SEC First Team (3000m, 5000m)
2021 SEC Outdoor Women's Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year
2020 USTFCCCA Indoor All-America (5000m)
Fall 2020 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2019 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete
2019 USTFCCCA Cross Country All-America
2019 USTFCCCA South Regional Athlete of the Year
2019 Second-Team All-America (3000m Steeple)
2019 SEC Indoor All-Freshman
2017 SEC Outdoor All-Freshman
2017 USTFCCCA All-Region
2022 Outdoor
USTFCCCA Second Team All-American... SEC 3000m Steeplechase Champion...First Team All-SEC...Ran the 1500m in two meets, the 3000m steeplechase in four and the 5000m in three... Top 1500m came in a second place finish at Florida Relays, clocking a 4:15.56... Earned three points in the 5k at SEC Outdoors with a time of 15:59.19... Won back-to-back steeple outings, first with a 9:41.15 at the War Eagle Invitational, followed by a 9:49.13 at SEC Outdoors, becoming the first Auburn woman in over a decade to capture at least three SEC individual titles... Earned third career nod to NCAA Outdoors where she clocked a 9:41.18 to finish 12th.
2022 Indoor
Second Team All-SEC...Ran the 3000m and 5000m in two meets apiece... Scored three points in a 9:04.74 3k performance at SEC Indoors... Earned bronze at SEC Indoors in the 5k, running a 15:53.95... Brought SEC Indoors career point total to 57, the most by an Auburn track & field athlete ever.
2021 Cross Country
USTFCCCA All-American...Raced in five of the six meets of the season... Opened the fall slate with a first place finish in the women's 5k at the Joe Piane Invitational (17:05.50), Took home silver and was named First Team All-SEC following a 20:04.10 6k run at SEC Championships... Claimed fourth at the NCAA South Regional, being named to the All-Region team after a 19:49.54 6k performance, also tied the school record with three bids to Nationals... Capped the season earning USTFCCA All-America honors with a 16th place run (19:43.40) in the 6k at NCAAs, also becoming the first Auburn woman to record multiple top-20 finishes at the event.
2021 Outdoor
USTFCCCA All-American...First Team All-SEC...Competed the 3000m steeplechase and 5000m in four meets and the 1500m in one... Broke the school record in the women's 1500m to take second at the Joe Walker Invitational, 4:13.15... Opened the War Eagle Invitational with a school record and event win in the women's 3000m steeplechase (9:37.97), also setting the nation's top time for the event... Claimed the silver medal in the 3000m steeplechase at SECs with a 9:47.32, the second-fastest time in school history... Ran the second-fastest 3000m steeplechase ever, 9:31:84, to win silver at NCAAs and claim the highest finish for an Auburn woman at the meet since 1995... Earned both First-Team All SEC honors and USTFCCCA All-American status in both 3000m steeplechase and 5000m.
2021 Indoor
5000m National Champion... USTFCCCA First Team All-American... SEC Champion in both 3000m and 5000m... First Team All-SEC...Competed the 3000m and 5000m in three meets apiece... Finished first in the 5000m at the Music City Challenge, running a 16:04.35…Became the first Auburn runner to win an indoor conference championship since 2012 and the first ever Auburn runner to sweep the distance titles after being crowned SEC Champion in both the women's 3000m (8:56.02) and 5000m (15:46.88) with two meet record performances... Also set school record for fastest 3000m in SEC Championship victory... Named to All-SEC for both 3000m and 5000m... Ran a 9:02.79 in the 3000m at NCAAs to finish third, the second-fastest mark in program history... Claimed the 5000m national championship with a victory at NCAAs, posting a 15:48.98 run to become Auburn's first indoor national champion since 2010 and first ever in a distance event... Earned First Team All-America status in both the 3000m and 5000m.
2020 Outdoor
Season was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 Indoor
USTFCCCA Indoor All-American (5000m) and second-team All-SEC … Qualified for first NCAA Indoor Championships but was unable to compete after the meet was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic … Just the third AU woman to qualify for NCAA Indoors at 5000m (Angela Homan, 2006; Holly Knight 2011) ... In five indoor races, broke three Auburn indoor records: mile (4:38.86), 3000m (9:14.07) and 5000m (15:37.82) ... 2020 SEC Indoor runner up at 3000m (9:15.63) and fifth-place at 5000m (16:11.46) … Broke the school mile record on Feb. 1 at the Razorback Invitational with a time of 4:38.66 to break the previous mark of 4:39.84 set by Janet Trujillo in 1997 … The 23-year old record was the oldest standing Auburn women’s indoor record before Kimeli broke it … Set the school 5000m record on Dec. 17, 2019 at the Boston University Opener … Set her third school record of the indoor season on Feb. 14 at the Hemery Valentines Invite in Boston with a time of 9:14.07 … Broke school marks in her first three races of the season … Joins former Auburn standout Coby Miller as the only two Tigers to hold more than two school indoor records.
2019 Cross Country
Earned USTFCCCA All-American honors after finishing 14th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships capping one of the best single-season performances by a Tiger cross country runner in recent history … Finished the 6k course in 20:26.2 at the NCAA Championships marking the third-best finish ever by an Auburn woman at the cross country championships and best by an Auburn runner since Holly Knight was 11th in 2008 … USTFCCCA South Regional Athlete of the Year and earned All-SEC first-team honors … Won the NCAA South Regional by 15 seconds with a time of 19.59.5 in the women’s 6k, becoming just the third Auburn woman in school history to win the event … Earned bronze medal honors at the SEC Championships finishing in 19:51.3, which was the best finish by an Auburn woman at SECs since Holly Knight was runner up in 2010 … Making her season debut, was third overall at the Joe Piane Invitational (Oct. 4) with a 5k time of 16:20.69 … Racing at the Pre-Nationals Invite on Oct. 19, was second overall among 258 of the nation’s best runners, crossing in 20:09.4.
2019 Outdoors
Earned second team All-America honors after finishing 13th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 3000m steeplechase … Qualified for NCAA Outdoors after winning the 3000m steeple at NCAA East Preliminaries in a school-record time of 9:52.48, breaking the previous mark she set at SEC Outdoors two weeks earlier … Finished seventh at NCAA East Prelims in the 5000m in 16:14.31 … Second at SEC Outdoors in the 3000m steeplechase in 10:00.94, a then school record, breaking the previous mark by 25 seconds … Eighth in the 5000m at SEC Outdoors in 16:06.50, the third fastest in Auburn history … Second team All-SEC for second place finish at SEC Outdoors (3000m steeple) … Ran four of the five fastest 3000m steeplechase times in school history during the season … Won the War Eagle Invitational 3000m steeplechase (10:27.17) … Raced in five meets during the season.
2019 Indoors
Raced in two meets … SEC Indoor Championship silver medalist at 3000m and 5000 with a pair of times that set AU freshman record … Just the third woman in Auburn history to medal at SEC Indoors in two distance events in the last 25 years … Her 18 points at SECs were the most at the conference meet by an Auburn female since Kai Selvon in 2012 (18.25) … Broke her own Auburn freshman record at 3000m with time of 9:24.59 at SEC Indoors one day after setting the school freshman 5000m record (16:28.67) by 15 seconds (Angela Homan, 2003, 16:43.69) … Second team All-SEC (3000m, 5000m) and SEC All-Freshman team honoree … Won the 5000m Invite with a time of 17:07.90 at the Carolina Challenge… Fifth at the Bob Pollock Invitational in the 3000m with a recorded time of 9:30.14.
2018 Outdoor
Competed in four events for the Tigers… ran a PR time of 17:19.20 to finish third at the War Eagle Invitational… finished second in the 3000m at the Tiger Track Classic with a time of 9:52.93… competed at the SEC Outdoor Championships where she finished 12th in the 3000m steeplechase in a time of 11:01.29
2018 Indoor
Did not compete
2017 Cross Country
Earned All-Region honors at the NCAA South Regional after finished 20th with a personal-best 20:36.0 in the 6k ... Earned SEC All-Freshman honors with a 28th-place finish at the SEC Championships ... Finished third at the Crimson Classic with a time of 20:59.2 ... Finished 35th in her first collegiate race at the Louisville Classic
Personal
Birthday is May 9.