THE BASICS:
 
- Location: Birmingham Crossplex (Birmingham, Ala.)
 
- The Lead: At the 2023 NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championship, the No. 13 ranked MIT women's track and field team finished 16th out of 58 scoring teams with a total of 14 points as the Engineers had seven All-Americans on day two of the championship. MIT moved up 13 spots in the overall standings on Saturday with a 13-point performance.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- Sophomore Alexis Boykin (Clayton, Ohio) picked up her second All-American showing of the meet as she placed seventh in the shot put with a throw of 47 feet, 3.5 inches on her second attempt for the day.
 
- In the mile final, junior Gillian Roeder (Delmar, N.Y.) earned All-American status with a fifth-place finish. She ran a time of 4:53.35, moving up through the field throughout the race and narrowly avoiding an early collision of runners, en route to scoring for the Engineers.
 
- In the 800 meters, junior Julia Howarth (Barrington, R.I.) was an All-American as she crossed in fifth place with a personal-best time of 2:13.34 to earn four points.
 
- In the final event for the Engineers, the 4x400 relay team of junior Madeline Hon (Manhasset, N.Y.), first-year Shreya Kalyan (Troy, Mich.), sophomore Marina Miller (Bel Air, Md.) and Howarth came away with a sixth-place performance in 3:49.72.
 
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