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2019 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Josh Derrick

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Winnetka, Ill.
  • High School New Trier

Biography

2019:
- Team captain
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- USTFCCCA All-Region
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Competed in four meets
- Placed 36th at the Connecticut College Invitational in 25:26.2
- Finished fifth at the NEWMAC Championship with a time of 25:51
- Crossed in 29th at the NCAA Regional in 25:36.7 and 87th at the NCAA Championship in 25:23.2

2018:
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- USTFCCCA All-Region
- Placed 39th at the NEICAAA Championship with a time of 25:52.59
- Finished fifth at the NEWMAC Championship in 26:32
- Placed 31st at the NCAA Regional in 25:54.86 and 239th at the NCAA Championship in a time of 26:31.8

2017:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Did not compete in a meet

2016:
- NEWMAC Rookie of the Year and NEWMAC All-Conference
- NEWMAC Runner of the Week on 9/26
- Finished eighth in his collegiate debut at the Purple Valley Classic in a time of 25:43.5
- Finished third at the NEWMAC Championship with a time of 25:32

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Dropping 70 seconds in the three-mile during his senior year of high school

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning indoor New England D3's by over 100 points in 2019

Off the Cross Country Trail:
- Majoring in computational biology with a minor in creative writing
- UROP in the Gehring Lab studying methylation in plants
- SuperUROP in the Collins Lab developing diagnostic tools for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Summer intern at the Boyce Thompson Institute studying methylation in corn

High School:
- Ran cross country and track at New Trier High School
- Cross country MVP and team captain
- Three-year letterwinner in track and two-time letterwinner in cross country
- 2015 All-State with a three-mile time of 14:41
- Won the Award for Math Service and the Award for Life Sciences

Historical Player Information

  • 2016First Year

    5'11"
  • 2017Sophomore

    5'11"
  • 2018Junior

    5'11"
  • 2019Senior

    6'0"