INDIANAPOLIS – Eastern Kentucky University sophomore Edna Chelulei will race at the NCAA Cross Country Championships for the second consecutive season, as announced on the live NCAA Selection Show on Saturday.
 
Chelulei earned an at-large individual bid to the national championship meet for the second straight year. She finished eighth overall at the NCAA Southeast Regional on Friday in Spartanburg, South Carolina, covering the 6K course in a time of 19:08.7.
 
Chelulei will join teammate Brighter Jepchumba at the NCAA Championships. Jepchumba secured an automatic individual bid to nationals by finishing third overall at the Southeast Regional on Friday.
 
It marks the first time the EKU women have sent multiple individual qualifiers to the NCAA Cross Country Championships. The Colonel women made it as a team in 2017, their only team appearance at the national championship meet.
 
Chelulei finished 63^rd out of 261 competitors at last year's NCAA Championships in Columbia, Missouri.
 
This year's NCAA Championship meet will take place on Saturday, November 21 in Terre Haute, Indiana.