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2021 MIT Football Roster

8 Evan Gwozdz

  • Position WR
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 165
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Middleboro, Mass.
  • High School Middleboro

Biography

2021:
- Appeared in all nine games
- Had 11 kick returns for 196 yards and 12 punt returns for 113 yards
- Also added four solo tackles, one forced fumble and one pass breakup
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society

2020:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Did not play as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019:
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Appeared in nine games
- Posted 27 kick returns for 510 yards, averaging 18.9 yards per return with a long of 75 yards
- Had eight punt returns for 107 yards, including a punt return touchdown at Catholic on 9/28

2018:
- Appeared vs. Endicott on 9/15.

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Beating Springfield in 2019 to win the NEWMAC for the second straight year

Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in chemical engineering with a minor in business management and Spanish
- Process Engineering Intern at American Industrial Partners
- Global Management Trainee Intern at Anheuser Busch
- Researching polymer membranes for gas separation applications at the Zachary Smith Lab
- Head Teaching Assistant for Design-Thinking & Innovation Leadership for Engineers course
- MIT Class of 2022 Representative for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Member of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program
- Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity member
- Little Beavers Running Club Volunteer Coach

Prior to MIT:
- Won two football varsity letters, three baseball letter and four indoor track and field letters at Middleboro High School
- As a senior in football, he threw for 1,878 yards on 119-of-172 completions with 22 passing touchdowns
- Ran for 718 yards on 100 carries with 16 rushing touchdowns
- Finished his career with 2,822 passing yards, 36 passing touchdowns, 189 completions, 1,557 rushing yards, 199 carries and 28 rushing touchdowns
- Boston Globe Division 6 Player of the Year and Enterprise Player of the Year
- South Shore League Player of the Year
- Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic
- Enterprise All-Scholastic
- South Shore League Scholar
- League All-Star and team captain in football, track and baseball
- Shriners All-Star Game participant
- Class valedictorian and Class president
- Student Council Executive Board member
- National Honor Society and Math Honor Society member and vice-president
- Math Team captain
- Member of the Key Club and Yoga Club
- Member of the National English Honor Society, the Rho Kappa History Honor Society, the Spanish Honor Society and the Science Honor Society
- National Merit Scholarship Commended Student
- Rensselaer Medal Winner for Outstanding Math & Science
- AP Scholar and Wendy's High School Heisman winner for Massachusetts

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 8

    2019Sophomore

    WR
    5'9" 155 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2020Junior

    WR
    5'10" 165 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2021Senior

    WR
    6'0" 165 lbs
    8