Education
Born in Rift Valley Province and raised in Keringet, she attended Keringet Winners Girls High School and began training as a steeplechase specialist under her coach Charles Ng"eno.
Born in Rift Valley Province and raised in Keringet, she attended Keringet Winners Girls High School and began training as a steeplechase specialist under her coach Charles Ng"eno.
She holds a personal best of 9:35.75 minutes for the 3000 metres steeplechase and is ranked third on the all-time youth lists for the 2000 m steeplechase distance. In the youth category she was a gold medallist at the World Youth Championships, Youth Summer Olympics and the African Youth Games. She was a silver medallist at World Junior level
She quickly established herself among the world"s best young steeplechasers by running a time of 6:12.0 minutes for the 2000 metres steeplechase in Nairobi in 2013, moving up to third on the all-time lists for the event.
A fourth-place finish in the junior race at the 2014 African Cross Country Championships brought her another team gold. She held the world"s four fastest times for the event that year.
She returned to grass for the 2015 World Cross Country junior race, but the Kenyan team was well-beaten by the Ethiopians and Chepngetich came twelfth as part of the silver medal-winning team A third-place finish in a steeplechase personal best of 9:35.75 minutes at the 2015 Athletics Kenya World Championship Trials brought her her first senior national selection.
2000 metres steeplechase – 6:12.0 minimum (2013)
3000 metres steeplechase – 9:35.75 minimum (2015)
5000 metres – 16:07.0 minimum (2012).