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NEWS: 2023 NCAA 10k Champion Everlyn Kemboi Has National Title Revoked, Emily Venters' Appeal for NCAA Gold Denied
- Conor Daly
- Dec 29, 2025
- 2 min read
Written by Conor Daly, edits & additional commentary via Garrett Zatlin
NCAA documents (page 19) reveal that Everlyn Kemboi, formerly of Utah Valley, has had her 10k national title from the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships revoked by the NCAA Committee on Infractions (COI). Her runner-up finish over 5000 meters at the same national meet has also been removed.
The 2023 national meet runner-up over 10,000 meters, Utah alum Emily Venters, claimed in an Instagram post that Kemboi had tested positive for a banned substance from a test conducted by the NCAA at the 2023 outdoor national meet.
While The Stride Report has not been able to directly confirm the reason for Kemboi's title revocation, Venters told TSR that Matt Mikrut, the Managing Director for the COI, verbally confirmed to her family over the phone that Kemboi had tested positive for a banned substance.
Venters says that she was also tested by the NCAA at the 2023 outdoor national meet.
The Stride Report reached out to Matt Mikrut via phone and email on December 22nd, 2025 and sent up a follow-up email on December 27th, 2025, but received no response. In addition to Mikrut, 10 other members of the COI were also contacted for further comment. TSR received no response from any COI member who served on the case.
The Stride Report also reached out to Utah Valley's coaching staff for comment on December 22nd, 2025, but has not yet received a response.
Since the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships, Kemboi has not competed in the NCAA. She has, however, competed in 18 professional track and road races, including marquee meets like The TEN, the Portland Track Festival and the Falmouth Road Race.
In their initial decision, the COI chose not to upgrade the placements of the runners in the aforementioned 10k and 5k races that Kemboi competed in. Separate appeals by both Venters and the University of Utah were rejected by the COI.
While the COI has the power to reorder the final results, they opted not to deviate from their 50+ year approach without a clear direction from its members, an NCAA spokesperson told the University of Utah.
There are no further opportunities to appeal through the COI.
Put simply, there is no 2023 NCAA 10k champion now that Kemboi’s result was vacated and the committee elected not to upgrade the rest of the athletes. Similarly, there is now no runner-up finisher for the 5k.
In that same Instagram post, Venters expressed her disappointment with the NCAA’s decision to not upgrade the placements of the women in those 10k and 5k races from the 2023 national meet,
“This sets a dangerous standard for the next generation of NCAA athletes. It tells them that cheating can happen, that athletes can test positive, and yet the right thing still will not be done. It sends the message that clean athletes who do things the right way may never be protected or rewarded. That is not the sport we love.” - Utah alum and Nike pro, Emily Venters
