Diana Cherotich

Diana Cherotich is a Kenyan long-distance and cross country runner.

Career

Cherotich is from Bungoma County, Kenya. She competed at the 2024 World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, where she finished fifth for Kenya in the U20 race, winning silver in the team event. This came after she missed the chance to compete the previous year at the Championships in Bathurst, Australia, due to VISA issues.
Cherotich joined the University of Oregon in the United States in March 2025. She made her race debut for the Oregon Ducks at the Stanford Invitational on 4 April 2025, where she set a new school record for the 10,000 metres, running 31:45.22 seconds for the win. The time was also the ninth-fastest in collegiate history, and was more than 21 seconds faster than the previous Oregon program record from 2013. She then won the women’s 10,000-metres final at the Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field on 16 May, running a meeting record time of 32:00.48.
She won the individual and team title with Oregon at the Big Ten Conference cross country championships on 31 October 2025. She had a second place finish at the NCAA West Regional cross country championships on 14 November 2025 at in Sacramento, California, helping the Oregon Ducks to a second-place finish.