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2023-24 MIT Men's Track and Field Roster

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Sam Acquaviva

  • Height 6-0
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Newburyport, Mass.
  • High School Newburyport
  • Event Distance
  • Major Computation and Cognition

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS) 
Indoor: 
Mile - 4:07.98 
3,000m - 8:00.41 
5,000m - 13:57.53
 
Outdoor: 
1,500m - 4:01.28  
10,000m – 30:57.76

Accolades (Indoor): 
- New England D3 Champion - 2024 (3,000m)
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 2024 (Mile, 3,000m, DMR)
- USTFCCCA All-America First Team - 2024 (Distance Medley Relay)
- USTFCCCA All-America Second Team - 2024 (3,000m)
- All-New England D3 - Mile (2023)
 
- NCAA Qualifier - 2023 (3,000m – 12th, 5,000m – 14th) , 2024  (3,000m - 11th, Distance Medley Relay - 5th)
- USTFCCCA All-Region - DMR (2023) 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 3,000m (2023) 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 5,000 (2023)
 
Accolades (Outdoor): 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2023, 2024)
Accolades: 
- USTFCCAA All-Academic Athlete (2022-23) 
- CSC Academic All-District (2022-23, 2023-24) 
- CSC First Team Academic All-America (2022-23, 2023-24) 
2023-24:
- Was a part of the distance medley relay that placed fifth at the 2024 NCAA DIII Indoor Track & Field Championship
- Finished 11th in the 3,000m with a time of 8:14.23 at the 2024 NCAA DIII Indoor Track & Field Championship
- Won the 3,000m at the New England DIII Indoor Championship

2022-23: 
- Competed in five meets during the indoor season and one during the outdoor season 

2021-22: 
- Was not on the roster

2020-21: 
- Did not compete as the season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019-20: 
- Won the 3,000m in his collegiate debut vs. Bates and Colby, running 8:56.10 
- Ran a season-best 4:25.99 in the mile at the URI Sorlein Invitational 
- Posted a season-best time of 8:35.30 in the 3,000m at the BU John Thomas Terrier Classic 
- Was a member of the winning DMR team at the Springfield College Triangle Classic 
- Outdoor season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Off the Track at MIT:  
- Pursuing a master's in computation and cognition 
- Vice-president of the Class of 2023 in 2019-20 
- Interned at Apple in the summer of 2022 
- Summer 2021: Machine Learning Intern at John Deere, creating computer vision systems and automating advanced skid steer maneuvers 
- May 2020-present: Researching in Computational Cognitive Science group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. I collected a dataset that captures how people communicate abstract patterns, and I am currently working to use this dataset to train a computer to solve a currently unsolved benchmark -- The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus

High School: 
- Ran cross country and track and played soccer at Newburyport High School 
- Two-time Boston Globe Massachusetts Division II Runner of the Year (2017 and 2018) 
- Two-time MIAA Division II All-State Cross Country Champion (2017 and 2018) 
- 12-time varsity letter winner in cross country, track and field and soccer 
- Class president and class valedictorian 
- Member of the National Honor Society

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2022-23Senior

    Distance
    5'7"
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

    Distance
    6'0"