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2023 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Carrie Snyder

Sam Acquaviva

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 155
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Newburyport, Mass.
  • High School Newburyport

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS) 
8K - 24:03.0

Accolades: 
- CSC Academic All-America First Team (2022-23, 2023-24)
- CSC Academic All-District (2022-23, 2023-24)
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Week (Oct. 28, 2021; Oct. 17, 2022)  
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- USTFCCCA East Region Athlete of the Year (2023)  
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (2022, 2023) 
- USTFCCCA All-Region (2021, 2022, 2023) 
- NEWMAC All-Conference (2021, 2022, 2023)  
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Year (2022) 
- USTFCCCA National Scholar Athlete of the Year (2022) 
- USTFCCCA All-American (2021, 2022, 2023)

2023: 
- Competed in five events with three top-5 finishes  
- Finished second at the NEWMAC Championship in 24:56.8 and first at the NCAA East Regional in 24:36.3 
- Placed 23rd at the NCAA DIII Cross Country Championship with a time of 24:52.9

2022: 
- Competed in six races 
- Finished third at the NCAA Championship in a time of 24:42.1 to earn All-American honors 
- Placed third at the NCAA New England Regional Championship in 25:25.6 
- Won the NEWMAC Championship in a time of 24:24.6 to earn Athlete of the Year accolades

2021: 
- Competed in six meets, placing in the top 15 in all of them 
- Opened the season finishing fifth at the Purple Valley Classic in 26:20.6 
- Crossed in ninth at the Live in Lou Classic in 24:40.3 
- Was fourth in the Blue Race at the Connecticut College Invitational in 24:47.2 and fifth at the NEWMAC Championship in a time of 25:19.1 
- Placed seventh at the NCAA Regional in 25:41 and 13th at the NCAA Championship in a time of 24:03

2020: 
- Did not compete as the season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019:  
- Competed in four meets 
- Made his debut at the Purple Valley Classic, where he placed 25th in 27:19.5 
- Finished 28th at the Connecticut College Invitational in 25:20.7 
- Placed 14th at the NEWMAC Championship in a time of 26:34 

Off the Trail at MIT: 
- Pursuing a master's of engineering in computation and cognition 
- Vice-president of the Class of 2023 in 2019-20 
- Interned at Apple in the summer of 2022 
- Summer 2021: Machine Learning Intern at John Deere, creating computer vision systems and automating advanced skid steer maneuvers 
- May 2020-present: Researching in Computational Cognitive Science group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. I collected a dataset that captures how people communicate abstract patterns, and I am currently working to use this dataset to train a computer to solve a currently unsolved benchmark -- The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus

High School: 
- Ran cross country and track and played soccer at Newburyport High School 
- Two-time Boston Globe Massachusetts Division II Runner of the Year (2017 and 2018) 
- Two-time MIAA Division II All-State Cross Country Champion (2017 and 2018) 
- 12-time varsity letter winner in cross country, track and field and soccer 
- Class president and class valedictorian 
- Member of the National Honor Society 

Historical Player Information

  • 2019First Year

    5'8" 0 lbs
  • 2020Sophomore

    5'7" 0 lbs
  • 2021Junior

    5'7" 0 lbs
  • 2022Senior

    6'1" 0 lbs
  • 2023Graduate Student

    6'1" 155 lbs