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Updated: May 19, 2018

2018 outdoor: Placed 13th at the ACC Outdoor Championships in the 800 meters with a personal-best time of 1:51.10 ... Posted a time of 4:15.38 at the National Relay Championships in the 1,500 meters … Also, ran the first leg of the 4x800-meter relay team (7:25.97) that finished first at the National Relay Championships … Ran a time of 1:53.46 in the 800 meters and 3:55.64 in the 1,500 meters at the Duke Invitational.

2018 indoor: Recorded a personal-best time of 1:53.08 in the 800 meters prelims and ran on the distance medley relay team (9:38.31) that placed first at the ACC Championships … Ran on the distance medley relay team that placed third with a time of 9:57.38 at the Roanoke Tune Up … Clocked a time of 1:55.91 in the 800 meters at the Camel City Invitational to finish 13^th … Ran a 2:27.07 in the 1,000 meters to place 11^th at the Liberty Kickoff … In his first collegiate meet, tallied a time of 1:55.32 in the 800 meters at the Keydet Invitational.

High school: Ran track and cross country at Montgomery Blair High School … Ran on the varsity squad for three years … Finished 33rd at the MPSSA 4A West Region Cross Country Championships with a time of 17:30.1 his senior season … Has a personal-best time of 17:13.9, which he ran while finishing 39th at the Spiked Shoe Invitational … Came in seventh at the Blair at Poolesville meet … Won the state title in the 800 as a junior during the outdoor season … Also won the 800 at the county and regional outdoor meets that year … Anchored the 3,200-meter relay team that won the state outdoor title his junior year … Was fourth in the 800 at the state meet his senior season and anchored the 3,200-meter team that was fourth as well … His time of 1:53.94 in the 800 is the eighth-fastest time in county history.

Personal: Born Aug. 26, 1999 in Cameroon … Son of Jean Marie and Tchamgoue Hortense Leonie Yanga … Has one sibling, Junior … Contemplated major is criminology.