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2024-25 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Gillian Roeder

  • Height 5-3
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Delmar, N.Y.
  • High School Bethlehem Central
  • Event Distance
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS)


Accolades (Indoor): 

  • All-New England D3 - Mile, 800m (2022-23) 

  • NCAA Qualifier - Mile, DMR (2022-23) 

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - 800m, Mile, DMR (2022-23) 

  • USTFCCCA All-American - Mile (2022-23)

  • USTFCCCA All-Region Mile; 3,000m (2024-25)

  • USTFCCCA All-America First Team - Mile (2024-25)

  • USTFCCCA All-America Second Team - 3,000m (2024-25)

Accolades (outdoor):

  • NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference - 1,500m (2022-23) 

  • NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Week (Apr. 2, 2023) 

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - 800m (2021-22); 1,500m (2021-22, 2022-23); 5,000m (2022-23) 

  • All-New England D3 - 1,500m (2022-23) 

  • NEICAAA All-New England - 1,500m (2022-23) 

  • NCAA Qualifier - 1,500m (2021-22, 2022-23) 

  • USTFCCCA All-American - 1,500m (2022-23)

  • NEWMAC Track Athlete of the Week (April 16)

  • NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference - 1,500 (2025)

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - 1,500m; 5,000m (2025)

  • USTFCCCA First Team All-America - 1,500m (2025)

  • USTFCCCA Second Team All-America - 5,000m (2025)

  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team(2025

  • CSC Academic All-District (2025)

Accolades: 

  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2021-22, 2023-24) 

  • CSC Academic All-District (2022-23) 

  • CSC Second Team Academic All-America (2022-23) 

  • USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (2022-23) 

  • NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team (2021-22) 

  • USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2021-22) 

2024-25:

  • Competed in 9 meets this indoor and outdoor track season 

  • Ran career bests in the 800m, mile, 3000m, and 5000m 

  •  Competed in the NCAA Division III Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships, with 2 top 10 finishes. 

2023-24: 

  • Did not compete in a meet

2022-23: 

  • Competed in 12 meets 

  • Finished third in the 1,500m at the NCAA Outdoor National Championship 

  • Placed second in the 1,500m at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championship 

  • Finished third in the 1,500m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 

  • Placed second in the 1,500m and seventh in the 5,000m at the NEWMAC Championship 

  • Finished fifth in the Mile and tenth in the DMR at the NCAA Indoor National Championship 

  • Placed fifth in the 800m and Mile at the New England D3 Indoor National Championship

2021-22:

  • Competed in five outdoor meets

  • Finished 16th in the 1,500m at the NCAA Outdoor Championship

2020-21:

  • Did not compete as the season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Before MIT:

  • Two-time Team MVP in cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field

  • School-record holder in the 1,000m, indoor mile and the cross country home course

  • Third-place in the DMR at the 2019 NY Indoor State Championship

  • Five-time varsity letter winner between cross country and track and field

  • Was also a member of the soccer team

  • Member of the National, Math, and Spanish Honor Societies

  • Odyssey of the Mind

  • Science Olympiad

  • Class Vice President

  • Peer Helpers Treasurer

Personal:

  • Pursuing a master's degree in mechanical engineering

  • Graduated from MIT in 2024 with a degree in mechanical engineering

  • Intern at Alegre Design and WB Engineers and Consultants

  • Former UROP with MIT Beaver Works (reaction mechanisms of eutectic-coated aluminum in aqueous solutions)

  • Received the Louis N. Tuomala Award

  • DJ for WMBR (MIT's independent radio station)

  • Ascher H. Shapiro Fellow

  • Prior UROP with the Ideation Lab: Design Justice in pedagogy

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Distance
    5'4"
  • 2022-23Junior

    Distance
    5'4"
  • 2023-24Senior

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    Distance
    5'3"