Favour Wanjoku Season 2023-24

Career Performance List

Honors 
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award (2022)
Academic All-Big Ten (2022, 2023, 2024)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023; Spring 2021, 2022, 2024)
Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2024)

2024
Indoor: Finished 12th in the pentathlon at the Big Ten Championships with personal-best times in the 800m (2:37.02) and the 60m hurdles (8.65)…posted top-five finishes in the 60m hurdles (8.84) and the long jump (17-4, 5.28m) at the Nebraska Tune-Up…placed fifth in the pentathlon at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational with 3,373 points…finished second in the 60m hurdles and third in the long jump at the Prairie Wolf Indoor Invitational.

Outdoor: Totaled 4,911 heptathlon points at the Big Ten Championships to finish seventh…her top finishes at conference were placing fifth in the 100m hurdles with a personal-best 14.21 and placing fifth in the shot put with a 39-6 ½ (12.05m)...placed third the long jump (18-9 ¾, 5.73) and seventh in the 100m hurdles (14.41) at the Shocker Open…hit a personal-best 4,934 points in the heptathlon at the Jim Click Shootout to finish 13th…added an 18th-place 100m hurdles finish (14.56) at the Michael Johnson Invitational and a 31st-place 100m hurdles finish (14.42) at the Florida Relays.

2023
Indoor: Recorded a season-best score of 3,597 in the pentathlon, running to new 60H and 800m season bests at the Big Ten Indoor Championships...recorded a season-best mark of 11.60m/5-3 in the high jump at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational...ran to a season-best 60m time of 7.75 at the Mark Colligan Memorial.

Outdoor: Finished fourth in the 200m (24.87), sixth in the long jump (19-0 1/2, 5.80m) and first in the 4x100m relay at the KSU Ward Haylett…contributed to the eighth place 4x100m relay at the Big Ten Championships.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2022
Indoor: Recorded a season-best mark in the triple jump, long jump, and 60m... Finished third place in the triple jump at the Nebraska Mark Colligan Memorial, hitting a season-best mark of 11.99m (39' 4")... Earned a fourth-place long jump finish at the Indoor Gorilla Classic, recording a season-best jump of 5.94m (19' 6")... Ran a season-best time of 7.90 in the 60m at the Nebraska Adidas Classic, finishing in ninth place.

Outdoor: Recorded a season-best long jump mark of 5.85 (19' 2.5") at the Sooner Invitational, finishing in fourth place... Finished third place with a season-best triple jump mark at the Sooner Invitational, jumping 12.30m (40' 4.25")... Earned a third-place finish in the triple jump at the John McDonnell Invitational, hitting a mark of 12.21m (40' 0.75").

2021
Indoor: Finished seventh in the triple jump with a leap of 36-0 (10.97m) at the Husker Quad.
 
Outdoor: Did not compete.

Before Nebraska
Attended Rock Springs High School in Wyoming…state champion in the long jump and runner-up in the triple jump at the 2020 Wyoming Class 4A indoor state meet…2019 outdoor state champion in the long jump…2019 indoor state champion in both the long jump and triple jump…had indoor prep bests in the long jump (17-10 3/4) and triple jump (37-9 1/2) and outdoor prep bests in the long jump (19-3) and triple jump (38-4 3/4).