When professional coaches came to Kakuma to hold selection trials for a special training camp, they identified Lohalith's athletic ability and she was selected to train under Olympic champion marathon runner
Tegla Loroupe at her sports foundation in Nairobi. Here, the 1500m runner trains with four other runners from South Sudan who will participate in the Olympic refugee team at Rio 2016. who has been selected by the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete for the
Refugee Olympic Team in the women's
1500 m at the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lohalith hopes that through her success in running she will be able to help her parents who she has not seen since she was 8 years old. ==Competitions==