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2024 MIT Men's Cross Country Roster

Samir Amin

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 140
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Olympia, Wash.
  • High School North Thurston

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS.org)


Accolades: 

  • 2024 USTFCCCA All-Region
  • 2x NEWMAC All-Conference (2023, 2024)

2024: 

  • Competed in five events, earning two top-ten finishes 
  • Ran a career-best 24:44.0 8k to earn a 4th-place finish at the 2024 NEWMAC Championships 
  • Competed at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, running a 25:12.7 8k 

2023: 

  • Competed in three events 
  • Finished 22nd at the Williams Purple Valley XC Invite in 26:24.5 
  • Placed 131st at the NCAA DIII Pre-Nationals in 26:42.6 
  • Finished 14th at the NEWMAC Championship with a time of 26:07.5 

2022: 

  • Competed in two races 
  • Placed 36th at the Maribel Sanchez Invitational and 107th at the Conn. College Invitational 

2021: 

  • Did not compete in a meet 

Before MIT: 

  • Two-time District Scholar-Athlete Award recipient 
  • Math State Silver Medalist 
  • Received the Lisa Corwin Foundation Award 
  • Four-year letter-winner in track and cross country 
  • Holds the cross-country 5K school record in 15:34 
  • Placed eighth at the 2019 state championship in the 800m in a time of 1:56 
  • Member of the National Honor Society 
  • Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout 
  • ASB President 
  • Captain of both the track and cross country teams 
  • Band Vice-President and lead trumpet 
  • Edmund Maxwell Foundation Scholarship Recipient 
  • Lacey Rotary Scholarship Recipient 

Personal: 

  • Majoring in computer science with a concentration in literature 
  • Data Analyst for the PKG Center 
  • Member of the Chess Club 
  • Intern at MIT CSAIL 
  • Machine Learning Prodigy 

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 

  • "The day-to-day hustling and bustling with the boys, racking up huge mileage." 

Historical Player Information

  • 2021First Year

    0 lbs
  • 2022Sophomore

    5'11" 0 lbs
  • 2023Junior

    6'0" 140 lbs
  • 2024Senior

    6'0" 140 lbs