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2020 MIT Field Hockey Roster

5 Amanda Garofalo

  • Position F
  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • High School West Essex Regional
  • Hometown Fairfield, N.J.
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Career Highs
Goals2Multiple times 
Assists3vs. Gordon (Sept. 7, 2017)
Points5Three times

 

2020:
- Did not play as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic
- NFHCA Scholar of Distinction
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team

2019: [SEASON STATISTICS]
- NFHCA New England East All-Region Second Team
- NEWMAC All-Conference First Team
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team
- NEWMAC Offensive Athlete of the Week (Oct. 7, Oct. 21)
- Played in 20 games, started 19 - Recorded 15 goals, including six game-winners, two assists, and 32 points
- Ranked third in the NEWMAC in game-winning goals, fifth in goals, and seventh in points

2018: [SEASON STATISTICS]
- NFHCA New England East All-Region Second Team
- NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team
- NFHCA National Academic Squad
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team
- Started all 19 games
- Recorded 13 goals, including three game-winners, five assists, and 31 points
- Ranked eighth in the NEWMAC in goals, ninth in points, and 11th in assists

2017: [SEASON STATISTICS]
- NEWMAC Offensive Athlete of the Week (Sept. 11)
- Played in 19 games, started 18
- Tallied seven goals, including two game-winners, and a team-high eight assists for 22 points
- Ranked fourth in the NEWMAC in assists

Favorite Sports Memory
- Singing and dancing on the bus on the way to away games.

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete
- Playing in the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament in New Jersey.

Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in data science and a concentration in philosophy
- Was a summer business analyst at McKinsey & Company
- Participated in the TechStar Internship Program at Ultimate Software
- Was a Facebook Product Design intern
- Conducted research at the University of Sannio where she created an IoT cloud-based system to monitor the environmental conditions of road networks to provide the shortest paths from sources to destinations in smart cities, designed and implemented an algorithm to identify ecological shortest paths taking into account both travel time and pollution
- Conducted research at the MIT Tata Center where she designed and fabricated completely passive solar autoclave structure that converts water to steam using CAD software, built a system that collects high temperature and pressure steam used to clean biomedical devices in third world countries, and prototyped with various materials including foam, silicon, metals, plastics, and glass
- Pi Tau Sigma National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
- Gordon Engineering Leadership Program team coach
- Alpha Phi sorority vice president of marketing
- StartLabs
- MIT Undergraduate Energy Club career fair director
- MIT Undergraduate Association Campus Planning
- Start Labs
- MIT Driverless
- Little Beavers Running Club coach

High School:
- Was a member of the field hockey and softball teams at West Essex Regional High School
- All-Conference First Team, All-County First Team, All-League First Team, All-North Jersey First Team for field hockey
- Two-time Academic All-American, NJSIAA Scholar Athlete Award
- Four-time county, conference, and sectional-state champions, two-time group champions, NJ Tournament of Champions winners, team was ranked No. 1 in New Jersey and No. 10 nationally
- Three-time varsity letterwinner
- National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, Rho Kappa National History Honor Society, Italian Honor Society
- National Merit Commended Scholar
- Shoprite Star for Academics
- RPI Medalist Award winner
- High Honor Roll
- Tricia M. Zailo Scholarship, Frank G. Thompson Scholarship
- STEM Club founder and president
- Student Council treasurer
- Quiz Bowl
- Key Club

Club:
- New Heights
- Two-time festival gold medal winner and JPOL winner, Shooting Star champions

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 5

    2017First Year

    M
    5'5"
    5
  • 5

    2018Sophomore

    F
    5'5"
    5
  • 5

    2019Junior

    F
    5'5"
    5
  • 5

    2020Senior

    F
    5'5"
    5