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2019 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Billy Woltz

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Logan, Ohio
  • High School Logan

Biography

2019:
- 2020 American Rhodes Scholar
- Team captain
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Competed in two meets
- Placed 120th at the Connecticut College Invitational in a time of 26:20
- Finished 17th at the NEWMAC Championship in 26:48
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American

2018: 
- Google Cloud Second Team Academic All-American and Google Cloud Academic All-District
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Year, USTFCCCA All-Region and NEWMAC All-Conference
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Finished 18th at the NEICAAA Championship with a time of 25:32.38
- Captured the NEWMAC Championship as he crossed in 26:14
- Finished in 32nd place at the NCAA Regional in 25:55.60, followed by a 164th-place finish at the NCAA Championship in 25:56.9

2017:
- USTFCCCA All-Region
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Was the No. 4 runner for MIT at the Cowbell Classic, finishing in 66th in 26:16.74
- Placed 10th at the NEWMAC Championship in 26:09 at 22nd at the NCAA Regional in 26:00
- Placed 227th at the NCAA Championship in a time of 26:19.69

2016:
- Did not compete as a freshman.

Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning cross country regionals his sophomore year

Off the Cross Country Trail:
- Majoring in physics, electrical engineering and computer science with a minor in mathematics and a concentration in history
- Undergraduate research assistant in the Engineering Quantum Systems at MIT, where they work on quantum information processing using superconducting qubits
- 2018 and 2019 Astronaut Scholar

High School:
- Three-year letterwinner in cross country and four-year letterwinner in track
- Division I Cross Country Individual Qualifier and Division I Indoor Track State Qualifier
- Started a band named Junk It
- Honor Roll student who was a member of the National Honor Society

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Sophomore

    6'0"
  • 2018Junior

    6'0"
  • 2019Senior

    6'0"