"[citation needed] As a freshman in 2015, she finished sixth in her first collegiate race, clocking 10:06.11 for the 3000 m at the indoors Husker Invitational.

She led her team in all of the five 2015 races in which she ran, and became the second All-American in KU program history as a result of finishing 10th in the 2015 NCAA Cross Country Championships with a 6K time of 20:04.9 and finished third at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships, in 20:14.9.

She set the Kansas school record in the 10,000 m at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championship, finishing third in 32:46.10 to earn All-America honors after winning Big 12 titles in the 10,000 and 5,000 meters.

She set another school record finishing second in the 5000-meter run in 16:00.6 at the Stanford Cardinal Classic.

She was named the Big 12 Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year for the second consecutive season.

In 2018, Sharon lowered her KU school record in the 5000 m with an indoor time of 15:39.05, and set an indoor PR when winning the Mark Colligan Memorial mile in 4:45.84, then ran 4:45.56 to win the Rod McCravy Memorial mile.

In the NCAA Indoor Championships she finished third in the 5000 m with a 15:52.95, and combined with her sixth in the 3000 m in 9:03.68 she secured two First Team All-America recognitions.

[7][8] Lokedi ran 15:15.47 in a December 2018 Boston Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener to earn the 2019 World Championships 5000 m entry standard, No.

At the 2019 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, Lokedi raced the 5000 m and placed 11th in 16:06.21.