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2019-20 Men's Squash

Wonjune Kang

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Seoul, South Korea
  • High School Westminster School (Conn.)
  • Major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

2019-20: [SEASON STATS]
- CSA Scholar-Athlete
- Registered a record of 3-3 in positions 7 through 9
- Also went 9-0 in exhibition action
- Won his first five matches of the season
- On November 20, defeated Channy Hong of No. 1 Harvard at position ten
- Was victorious in nine matches against student-athletes from nationally-ranked programs

2018-19:
[SEASON STATS]
- CSA Scholar-Athlete
- Posted an overall record of 4-1 and also went 7-3 in exhibition play 
- Won 11 of his first 12 matches of the season
- Defeated four student-athletes from nationally-ranked teams
- Hlped MIT win its first-ever CSA national title as the Engineers won the Division C Summers Cup on February 17

2017-18: [SEASON STATS]
- Posted a record of 11-5 in his sophomore season which included marks of 1-0 at position five, 3-1 at position seven, 3-2 at position eight and 4-2 at position nine
- Registered eight wins over student-athletes from nationally-ranked teams
- Began the season by winning eight of his first nine matches
- Ten of his 11 wins came in three-set sweeps

2016-17: [SEASON STATS]
- Finished third on the team in wins with a record of 16-4, which included a mark of 10-3 at position nine, 1-0 at position five, 4-0 at position six, 1-0 at position seven and 0-1 at position eight
- Registered a season-long eight match win streak that stretched from January 13 through January 28
- Against student-athletes from nationally-ranked teams was 8-5
- 13 of 16 wins came via three-set sweeps

Off the Court at MIT: 
- Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science
- Minoring in mathematics and economics
- Completed a UROP at Laboratory for Social Machines in MIT Media Lab and a UROP on Spoken Language Systems at CSAIL
- President of Theta Xi
- Imperial College London-MIT Summer Reserch Exchange intern at the Data Science Institute
- Research Intern at Cortico
- IEEE/ACM Student Group

High School:
- A 2016 graduate of the Westminster School (Conn.)
- Valedictorian
- Four-time varsity letterwinner in squash and two-time varsity letterwinner in golf
- Two-time Stephen Harris Squibb Bowl winner (2015 and 2016) 
- Captain of the squash team 
- US Squash Scholar-Athlete award 
- Ranked as high as No. 68 in the US High School Junior Rankings
- Participated in Discovery to Cure Internship Program at Yale School of Medicine
- First author in paper published and presented at the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- President of Math Club

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First Year

    6'0"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    6'0"
  • 2018-19Junior

    6'0"
  • 2019-20Senior

    6'0"