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2021 MIT Men's Lacrosse Roster

19 Kyle Higgins

  • Position D
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Shoreham, N.Y.
  • High School Shoreham-Wading River

Biography

Career Highs
Groundballs 2 vs. Massachusetts Maritime (April 7, 2018)
vs. Curry (March 10, 2020)
Caused Turnovers 1 vs. Massachusetts Maritime (April 7, 2018)

2021:
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2020: [SEASON STATISTICS]
- NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team
- Played in two games, started one
- Recorded two groundballs

2019: [SEASON STATISTICS]
- Did not play in a game.

2018: [SEASON STATISTICS]
- Played in seven games

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning the Long Island Championship in lacrosse and football during my senior year of high school.

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- In the last game of the 2020 lacrosse season, two of our seniors were cleared to play after having been kept out due to injury. One guy scored a goal and the other had an assist as we went on to win the last game before being sent home for Covid-19. It was a special moment on a very bitter day.

Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in aerospace engineering with a concentration in music
- Internships: Metis Design Corp. (aerospace engineering intern), MilliporeSigma (mechanical engineering intern)
- Researched out of oven curing with applications of carbon nanotubes to improve structural integrity of aerospace parts made of carbonfiber
- Conducted a UROP working with carbonfiber and foam to create a safer football helmet (Inverted Football Helmet Project, aka “I-Helmet”)
- MIT Driverless
- MIT Little Beavers Running Group

High School:
- Graduated from Shoreham-Wading River High School
- All-Division Second Team, Academic All-County
- 2016 Long Island Champions, 2016 and 2017 Suffolk County Champions
- Three-time varsity letterwinner
- Received two varsity letters for soccer, earned a varsity letter as a member of the football team and the basketball team
- Captured the 2016 Football Suffolk County and Long Island Championship titles
- Salutatorian
- AP Scholar with Honors
- National Honor Society vice-president, Principal's List Recognition, Honor Roll all four years
- Thomas Catinella Memorial Scholarship

Club:
- For the Love of the Game (FLG)

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 32

    2018First Year

    D
    6'0" 210 lbs
    32
  • 32

    2019Sophomore

    D
    6'0" 210 lbs
    32
  • 19

    2020Junior

    D
    6'0" 210 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2021Senior

    D
    6'0" 210 lbs
    19