Westmont College Athletics

2025: WESPY Finalist for Athlete of the Year...Team-best 800m time of 1:50.11 at the APU Last Chance Meet...Team-best 1000 time of 2:26.04 at the Sunshine Open...Team-best 1500m run at the APU Last Chance Meet, with a time of 3:45.62...Team-best mile time of 4:06.77 set at the Westmont Classic.

2024: Redshirt year.

2023: By the end of his junior campaign, earned his fourth and fifth NAIA National Championship, as well as his 14th NAIA All-American honor...Won the NAIA Indoor National Championship in the men's 1000 meter run, winning the championship race with a time of 2:25.42...Finished as runner=up in the mile to friend Jason Bowers at Indoor Nationals, posting a time of 4:08.53...Won the NAIA Outdoor National Championship in the men's 800 meter run, securing a 'three-peat'...Finished 800 at Outdoors with a time of 1:48.78, and as he crossed the finished line removed his bib, and showed the inside to the cameras at the finish line...Sokhela inscribed the word 'Legacy" in blue ink, as Sokhela's 800 national championship was the last race in Westmont Track and Field history at the NAIA level...Also finished as runner-up at Outdoors in the 1500, once again to Bowers...Sokhela's Outdoors 1500 time was 3:52.94...Also earned All-American status in the 4x800 relay, where Sokhela and his teammates finished in third with a time of 7:34.75...Broke program record in 600 meter dash with a time of 1:20.08 on 1/28/23...Broke program record in 1000 with a time of 2:25.42 on 3/4.

2022: NAIA National Champion in 800m dash at the NAIA Outdoor National Championships, finished race in 1:51.04...Also earned All-American status at Outdoor Nationals in the 1500 meter run, finishing the event in 3rd place with a time of 3:52.91...Earned NAIA All-American honors at NAIA Indoor National Championships on two occasions...First, earned All-American with a 2nd place finish in the mile, posting a time of 2:26.43...Also earned All-American honors with a 3rd place finish in the mile, posting a time of 4:09.14...Broke Westmont program record in the 800 meter run, the 1000 meter run, and the 1500 meter run...Set Westmont program record in the 800 meter run by posting a time of 1:48.00 on 4/14/22, breaking Rick Tussing's 1972 record...Set Westmont program record in the 1000 by posting a time of 2:25.74 on 2/12/22, breaking Eric Williams' record from 2011...Set Westmont program record in the 1500 by posting a time of 3:42.31 on 4/15/22, breaking another of Rick Tussing's 1972 records.

2021: Named the USTFCCCA NAIA Track Athlete of the Year... National Champion in both the 800 meter and 1500 meter run at Outdoor Nationals...All-American in 4x800 relay, part of team that took second place at nationals with a time of 7:32.47, the second fastest time in Westmont track history...Named the GSAC Freshman of the Year...Holds third-best 800 time in program history, single-best 1500 meter time in program history (3:44.62)...Posted an NAIA-best 800 meter run time of 1:49.32 at the APU Invitational...Recorded an NAIA-best 1500 meter run time of 3:44.62 at the Brian Clay Invitational...Part of Westmont's fastest 4x400 meter relay team that posted a time of 3:19.55 at the GSAC Championships, winning the event...Part of Westmont's fastest distance medley relay team that posted a time of 10:09.96 at the Indoor National Championships...Led Westmont to their highest finish (4th) in program history at Outdoor Nationals, highlighted by his two national championships won within two hours of each other.