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2022 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Carrie Snyder

Matthew Kearney

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Austin, Texas
  • High School Westlake

Biography

2022:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- USTFCCCA All-Region
- Named as a Rhodes Scholar recipient
- USTFCCCA All-American
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete
- Competed in five meets, where he finished in the top-15 in all of them
- Placed ninth at Pre-Nationals in 24:48.8
- Finished fourth at the Conn. College Invitational (24:13.3), the NEWMAC Championship (24:48) and the NCAA Regional (25:26.6)
- Placed 14th at the NCAA National Championship with a time of 25:17.3

2021:
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Week (Sept. 27)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- USTFCCCA All-Region
- NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team
- USTFCCCA All-American
- Competed in six meets, posting five top-10 finishes
- Was second in his season debut at the Purple Valley Classic in a time of 26:11.9
- Finished eighth at the Live in Lou Classic in 24:38.7 and sixth at the Blue Race in the Connecticut College Invitational at 24:50
- Placed third at the NEWMAC Championship (25:09.7), fifth in the NCAA Regional (25:40.6) and 28th at the NCAA Championship (24:16.6)

2020:
- Was not on the roster

2019:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- USTFCCCA All-Region
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Competed in four meets
- Finished 21st at the Connecticut College Invitational in 25:14.2
- Was eighth at the NEWMAC Championship in 25:59
- Placed 31st at the NCAA Regional (25:40) and 83rd at the NCAA Championship (25:21.6)

2018:
- Did not compete in a race

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Running with the team at XC Nationals 2021

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Running my first indoor meet at BU

Off the Trail at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science, electrical engineering and philosophy
- Machine Learning Engineer at Argo AI
- Machine Learning Engineer at X
- Research in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and AI Ethics

Prior to MIT:
- Four-time letter winner in both cross country and track at Westlake High School
- 2014-2018 cross country and track team captain
- First Team All-Region in cross country from 2014-2017
- 2017 First Team All-State in cross country
- Four-time cross country MVP and 2017-18 Track MVP
- First Team All-Region in track from 2016-2018
- Member of the National Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta
- Junior class vice-president and senior class president
- Presidential Volunteer Service Award winner for over 300 hours of volunteer work

Historical Player Information

  • 2018First Year

    5'8"
  • 2019Sophomore

    5'9"
  • 2021Junior

    5'9"
  • 2022Senior

    5'9"