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2021 MIT Football Roster

11 Reginald Best

  • Position TE
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 225
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Odenton, Md.
  • High School Arundel

Biography

2021:
- Appeared in three games
- 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:
- Appeared in eight games

2018:
- Appeared in two games, including making his career debut vs. Becker on 8/31

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Beating Springfield in 2019 by a game-winning field goal to claim back-to-back NEWMAC titles

Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science with a minor in mathematics
- Software Engineering Internship at Reddit in summer 2021 on the Ads Prediction Team
- UROP in the MIT Sports Lab
- Former President, Vice-President, Brotherhood Chair, Alumni Correspondent, and current Senate Advisor of Phi Beta Epsilon
- Member of UA Community and Diversity committee and the MIT EECS committee on diversity, equity and inclusion

Prior to MIT:
- Three-year letter winner in football and one-time letter winner in lacrosse at Arundel High School
- Football team captain
- First Team All-County as a defensive end in his senior year
- Second Team All-County defensive tackle as a junior
- Two-time Second Team Capital Gazette All-County as a defensive tackle
- National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete
- U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete Award winner
- Member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, the Science National Honor Society and the National English Honor Society...
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- Honor Roll student
- Received the STEM Students for Excellence Award

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Historical Player Information

  • 11

    2018First Year

    TE
    6'3" 230 lbs
    11
  • 11

    2019Sophomore

    TE
    6'3" 225 lbs
    11
  • 11

    2020Junior

    TE
    6'3" 225 lbs
    11
  • 11

    2021Senior

    TE
    6'3" 225 lbs
    11