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2020-21 MIT Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Jay Lang

  • Height 5-10
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown South Lyon, Mich.
  • High School Early College Alliance
  • Event Diving
  • Major Computer Science

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
6 Dives on 1-meter board - 328.65
6 Dives on 3-meter board - 417.78
11 Dives on 1-meter board - 548.45
11 Dives on 3-meter board - 605.10

2020-21:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19
- CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large Team
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team

2019-20:
- All-American (1-Meter Dive, 3-Meter Dive)
- NCAA Qualifier
- NCAA Division III Northeast-North Diving Regional Qualifier
- NEWMAC Champion (3-Meter Dive)
- NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference (1-Meter Dive)
- CSCAA Scholar All-America
- NEWMAC Diver of the Week (Feb. 8)
- NCAA Regionals: 1-Meter (2nd), 3-Meter (2nd)
- NEWMAC: 3-Meter (1st), 1-Meter (2nd)
- Invite: 1-Meter (1st), 3-Meter (1st)
- Wins on Boards During Regular Season: 5

2018-19:
- NCAA National Champion (3-Meter Dive)
- All-American (3-Meter Dive) 
- Honorable Mention All-American (1-Meter Dive)
- NCAA Qualifier 
- NCAA Division III Northeast-North Diving Regional 3-Meter Champion 
- NEWMAC Men's Diver of the Year 
- NEWMAC Champion (3-Meter Dive) 
- NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference (1-Meter Dive) 
- NEWMAC Diver of the Week (Nov. 6, Nov. 15, Nov. 20, Dec. 3, Jan. 14, Jan. 28, Feb. 4)
- Broke the school records on both boards
- Nationals: 3-Meter (1st), 1-Meter (10th)
- NCAA Regionals: 3-Meter (1st), 1-Meter (8th)
- NEWMAC: 3-Meter (1st), 1-Meter (2nd)
- Invite: 3-Meter (595.75), 1-Meter (509.05)
- Wins on the Boards During Regular Season: 8

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Experiencing the NCAA Division III Championship for the first time

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- First time stepping onto the MIT campus

Out of the Pool at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science 
- Concentration in Russian and Eurasian Studies
- Intern at Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Also interned with General Motors working on autonomous driving systems
- Completed research on the theory division at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center on plasma turbulence simulations
- Also researched the capabilities of security vulnerabilities within the iOS kernel
- Intern at General Motors working in autonomous driving systems
- Interned Apple Inc. working in streaming media technologies
- Distributed Operating systems work with MIT PDOS
- Research on microarchitectural side channel vulnerabilities in modern processors with MIT CSAIL
- National Merit Scholar
- MIT Rocket Team
- Former Secretary of the MIT Association of Student Activities
- Associate Advisor for Steering Committee
- MIT Rocket Team
- MIT Radio Society
- East Campus First-Year Onboarding Program

High School:
- A 2018 graduate of Early College Alliance High School
- Competed for Legacy diving where he was a five time National Champion and has finished inside the top-12 for the past six years
- Completed individual and collaborative research in particle physics, astrophysics, and biomedical engineering
- Founded the Peer Mentorship Program at the Early College Alliance at Eastern Michigan University to help younger high school students transition to college coursework on campus
- Started and ran a small web development service to raise awareness for local businesses in South Lyon
- Volunteer physics and math tutor at Eastern Michigan University's MathLab
- Society of Physics Students member, EMU Chapter

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First Year

    Diving
    5'8"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Diving
    5'9"
  • 2020-21Junior

    Diving
    5'10"