2024-25 Men's Track & Field Roster

Kelechi Eziri

  • Academic Year Sixth Year
  • Position Jumps
  • Hometown Charlotte, N.C.
  • Highschool Providence Day School
  • INFLCR kelechi-eziri

Biography

CAREER COLLEGIATE RESULTS

Competed in the triple jump for Villanova during the 2024 and 2025 seasons ... Two-time BIG EAST scorer who finished fifth at the 2024 indoor conference championships and was sixth at the 2025 outdoor BIG EAST meet ... His mark of 14.44 meters recorded at Penn State during the 2024 indoor season put him sixth on the Wildcats all-time indoor performance list in the triple jump ... Came to the Wildcats before the 2023-24 academic year after an undergraduate career at Amherst ... Set the Amherst school record in the triple jump (14.57m) during the 2022 outdoor season ... He was a four-time Mideast All-Region performer and earned three consecutive indoor All-New England honors during his undergraduate career ... Also garnered All-NESCAC and All-NEICAAA accolades ... Named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team in 2022 while at Amherst ... Graduated in May 2023 and enrolled at Villanova to pursue a Master of Public Administration degree ... Named to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team in 2023-24 ... Three-time member of the Athletic Director's Honor Roll at Villanova.
 
 
PERSONAL BESTS
Long Jump 6.80 Meters Amherst Spring Fling (4.9.2022)
Triple Jump 14.57 Meters MIT Final Qualifier (5.19.2022)
 
 
CAREER HONORS AND AWARDS
2023 INDOOR
Mideast All-Region Long Jump
Mideast All-Region Triple Jump
All-New England Triple Jump
2022 OUTDOOR
Mideast All-Region Triple Jump
All-NESCAC Triple Jump
All-NEICAAA Triple Jump
Amherst School Record (overall/outdoor record) Triple Jump - 14.57 Meters
2022 INDOOR
Mideast All-Region Triple Jump
All-New England Triple Jump
Amherst School Record (indoor record) Triple Jump - 14.32 Meters
2020 INDOOR
All-New England Triple Jump
ACADEMIC HONORS
BIG EAST All-Academic Team 2023-24
Athletic Director's Honor Roll Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
USTFCCCA All-Academic Team 2021-22
 
 
CAREER BIG EAST RESULTS
2025 OUTDOOR (STORRS, CONN. | GEORGE J. SHERMAN FAMILY SPORTS COMPLEX)
Date Event Mark Place
May 17 Triple Jump 14.08m 6th
2024 INDOOR (CHICAGO, ILL. | DR. CONRAD WORRILL TRACK AND FIELD CENTER AT GATELY PARK)
Date Event Mark Place
February 24 Triple Jump 14.06m 5th
 
 
BEFORE VILLANOVA

Amherst College: School record holder in the triple jump both indoors and outdoors … Established both marks in 2022, first with an indoor jump of 14.32 meters at the Tufts National Qualifying Meet and later outdoors with a mark of 14.57 meters at the MIT Final Qualifier … Earned All-New England triple jump accolades in three consecutive indoor seasons in 2020, 2022, and 2023 … In 2022 was a Mideast All-Region honoree in the triple jump both indoors and outdoors … Also garnered all-region awards in both the long jump and the triple jump for the 2023 indoor season … During the 2022 outdoor season earned All-NESCAC and All-NEICAAA honors in the triple jump … Named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team in 2022.
 
Providence Day School: Earned a total of seven varsity letters during his scholastic career, including four in track & field and three in basketball … School record holder in the triple jump (13.55m) and was part of a school record performance in the 4x100 meter relay … As a senior in 2019 helped the 4x100 meter relay squad win a NCISAA state title … His team won three NCISAA team titles in 2016, 2017 and 2019 … Individually was the state runner-up in the triple jump in 2019 and was the CISAA conference champion … Part of a state champion basketball team in 2016 … Global Studies Dual Diploma recipient in 2019.
 
Personal: Born 11/8/00 … Son of Emeka Eziri and Chinyere Anyaogu .. Siblings are Ijeoma and Adanna … Sister, Ijeoma, also competed collegiately as a jumper on the Penn track & field team ... Graduated from Amherst in 2023 as a double major in Black Studies and Psychology … Enrolled in graduate school at Villanova to pursue a Master in Public Administration degree.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Fifth Year

    Jumps
  • 2024-25Sixth Year

    Jumps