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2017 MIT Football Roster

45 Mitch Turley

  • Position DB
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Westfield, Ind.
  • High School Westfield
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

2017: CoSIDA Academic All-District... NEWMAC Academic All-Conference... NEWMAC Defensive Athlete of the Week on 11/6... Started all 10 games and finished third on the team in total tackles with 66 stops that included 35 solo stops and 31 assisted tackles... Had a half tackle for loss of eight yards, two fumble recoveries for 34 yards and two interceptions for 20 yards... Added six pass breakups... Had three double-digit tackle games, including a season-high 13 tackles vs. Endicott on 9/16... In a win over Norwich, he had 10 tackles, one fumble recovery for 34 yards and an interception.

2016: Started all 10 games... NEFC All-Academic Team... CoSIDA Academic All-District... Ranked third on the team with 62 total tackles... Had two tackles for loss and four pass breakups... Had a pair of double-digit tackle games... Posted 12 tackles at Western New England on 10/15.

2015: Starter at linebacker for MIT as a sophomore … Academic All-NEFC … started eight of the nine games in which he appeared … second on the team with 69 tackles … two sacks and a pair of tackles for a loss … returned one interception for 12 yards.

2014: Outstanding first season at MIT … played in all 11 games with three starts … freshman All-Star (USA College Football) … NEFC Defensive Rookie of the Year … third on the team with 61 tackles … reached double figures in stops once … at least three tackles in every game … started his career with five stops against Pomona-Pitzer (9/6) … eight tackles against Becker (9/13) … four tackles and an interception at Curry (10/3) … returned the interception 86 yards for a TD … it was the third-longest interception return in the history of MIT football … set his career-high in tackles with 10 at Endicott (11/1) … nine the next time out at Maine Maritime (11/8) … four tackles at Husson (11/22) in the first round of the NCAA Playoffs … made five stops in the second round NCAA game at Wesley (11/29).

Off the Field at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in economics … internship with Allegion Safety and Security … house manager of Phi Beta Epsilon... Varsity Football Leadership Council... President of Athletes in Action... Leadership Team in Cru... Mechanical engineering researcher at Tel Aviv University on bio-inspired systems and micro-sized quadrotor and drone aircraft... Engineering intern at Cook Advanced Technologies, Ball Systems, Allegion US and 3Dmena/ROW... UROP in D-Lab working on developing a motorcycle ambulance to give rural villages in third world countries medical access.

High School: A 2014 graduate of Westfield High School … three letters in football as a linebacker … all-conference … all-county … honorable mention all-state … member of the state runner-up team … IHSAA Eskew Mental Attitude Award winner … academic all-state … IHSAA Eugene C. Cato Award recipient … Indiana High School Football Hall of Fame Inductee … National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete of the Year … NFL Players Association Award Winner … Colts All-Academic Team … Lucas Oil All-Academic Team … US Army Reserve Scholar-Athlete of the Year … also lettered in lacrosse … National Honor Society Co-President … Principles Advisory Committee … Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society … Hoosier Boys State Representative … Fellowship of Christian Athletes Leader … YoungLife Discipleship Leadership Team … Student Impact Band Member (Guitarist) … Grace Church Small Group Leader and Youth Mentor … Valedictorian … Lions Club Academic Achievement Award … Indiana Academic All-Star … American Legion Outstanding Male Student of the Year … Academic Honor Roll … Westfield Athletic Booster Club Travis Woerner Scholarship … Westfield Education Foundation Tommie Moore Scholarship … Westfield Education Foundation Bray Scholarship.

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Historical Player Information

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    2014First Year

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    2015Sophomore

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    6'1" 210 lbs
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    2016Junior

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    6'1" 200 lbs
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    2017Senior

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    6'1" 210 lbs
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