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2023 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Ellery Rajagopal

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 145
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Harrison, N.Y.
  • High School Harrison

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS)
6K - 20:48.8 
8K - 26:24.5 

Accolades: 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2023)

2023: 
- Competed in four events 
- Made his debut in the 6k event at the Maribel Sanchez Souther Invite where he finished 17th in 20:48.8 
- Placed 31st at the Connecticut College Invitational in 26:45.5 
- Finished 30th at the NEWMAC Championship in 79:32.5 

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Sam Coutts, Nate Sesti, and Samir Amin cheering me on in the 800m at outdoor last chance 2023 while they were also in the race!

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Watching Ryan Wilson break four minutes in the mile

Off the Trail at MIT:
- Pursuing a Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science, mathematics
- Developed a satellite-data querying application for MIT Sea-Grant in Summer 2018
- Studied Probabilistic Programming and Machine Learning at Oak Ridge National Lab in Summer 2019
- Worked as a Development Analyst at Volos Portfolio Solutions in Summer 2020
- Currently studying Machine Learning models for forecasting oceanographic timeseries data at MSEAS for my Master's of Engineering Degree

High School:
- Four-year letter winner in indoor and outdoor track and field and three-year winner in cross country at Harrison High School
- Holds the 600m and 800m school records
- Ran 1:58.36 in the 800 and 1:23.86 in the 600
- Won the Athletic Director's Award, Cross Country Coaches Award and the Indoor Track and Field Coaches Award
- Was All-League in both indoor track and field and cross country
- Scholar-Athlete
- Math Team captain
- Summa Cum Laude