Athletes like Caroline Kurgat come around once in a generation. Kurgat burst on the scene in 2017 when she won an individual title at the NCAA DII Cross Country Championships, but put together a Hall-of-Fame résumé in 2019 alone. The former Alaska Anchorage standout, who came to the Last Frontier from Eldoret, Kenya, won four NCAA titles on the track with indoor and outdoor distance doubles, and registered three performances that were either division records or all-conditions bests. Indoors, Kurgat went 15:28.46 over 5000 meters to become the first NCAA DII female to go sub-16 in the event and nearly set an absolute NCAA DII record in the process. Outdoors, Kurgat obliterated a 31-year-old division record in the 10,000 meters when she ran 32:08.09 at the Stanford Invitational, a mark that still tops the chart to this day.