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2024-25 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Tessa Everett

  • Height 5-3
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Niwot, Colo.
  • High School Niwot
  • Event Distance
  • Major Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS)

Accolades: 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2023-24)

2023-24:
- Competed in two meets
- Finished 25th in the Mile at the Tufts Cupid Challenge

2022-23: 
- Competed in two meets 
- Finished 15th in the 1,500m at the NEWMAC Championship

Favorite Sports Memory:
- There are so many! One would be our team dance party the night before Garmin XC High School Nationals to get all the jitters out and be ready to race!

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Renting a van with teammates and driving 17 hours out to Michigan to watch our teams run at nationals (and then driving 17 hours right back)

Off the Track at MIT:
- Majoring in artificial intelligence and decision making
- MISTI Bioengineering Internship at CeBib in Chile (2023)
- Conducted Gut-Brain Axis research at the Bioelectronics Lab in the RLE @ MIT

High School:
- Finished seventh in the 3,200 and eighth in the 1,600 at the 2021 Colorado State Track and Field Championships
- Finished 16th at the 2021 Colorado Cross Country State Championship as her team won the 2021 State Championship
- Track and field team captured the 2021 and 2022 Colorado State Championship
- Four-time letter winner in cross country and three-time winner in track and field
- Also played soccer
- Student-Athlete of the Year
- National Honor Society
- Science Student of the Month, Science Student of the Year
- 4-H Member, Garden Club co-president, Leadership Committee in Environmental Club, Mwebaza Club Member

Club:
- Was a member of REAL Training

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    Distance
    5'4"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2024-25Junior

    Distance
    5'3"