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2022-23 MIT Men's Track and Field Roster

Ellery Rajagopal

  • Height 6-0
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Harrison, N.Y.
  • High School Harrison
  • Event Mid-Distance
  • Major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mathematics

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFFRS)
Indoor:

600m - 1:23.97
800m - 1:55.47
1,000m - 2:31.79

Outdoor:
800m - 1:55.73
1,500m - 4:06.44

2022-23:
- All-New England D3 (Indoor: 4x800; Outdoor: 4x800)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Competed in nine meets
- Was a member of the 4x400 that finished second at the New England D3 Indoor Championship
- Was a member of the 4x400 that finished sixth at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship

2021-22:
- Was not a member of the team

2020-21:
- Did not compete as the season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019-20: 
- All-New England D3 (Indoor: 4x800, DMR)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
- Competed in seven indoor meets
- Placed fifth in the DMR and seventh in the 4x800 relay at the D3 New England Indoor Championship
- Outdoor season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2018-19:
- All-New England D3 (Indoor: 4x800, DMR; Outdoor: 4x800)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Was second in the 4x800 relay at the D3 New England Outdoor Championship
- Placed ninth in the 800m in 2:00.64 at the NEWMAC Championship
- Finished second in both the 4x800 relay and the DMR at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

2017-18:
- All-New England (Indoor - 4x800, Outdoor - 4x800)
- Competed in 12 meets
- Was a member of the runner-up 4x800 team at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship in a time of 7:50.66
- Finished second in the 800m at the Sean Collier Invitational with a season-best 1:57.42
- Finished sixth in the 4x800 at the New England D3 Indoor Championship
- Won the 600m at the Gordon Kelly Invitational and ran a season-best 1:24.94 in the 600m at the Tufts Cupid Challenge

Favorite Sports Memory:
- My favorite sports memory is a tie between when I broke my high school record in the 600m and when I broke my high school record in the 800m. 

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- My favorite moment as an MIT student-athlete was when I raced in the 4x800m at the New England DIII Championship. Our relay team PR'ed, MIT won the meet, and the drive home felt amazing.

Off the Track at MIT:
- Pursuing a Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science
- Did a data science UROP at MIT Sea Grant
- Interned as a development analyst at Volos Portfolio Solutions
- Wrote code in Python and Docker to create a program to easily access, read and visualize NetCDF4 data regarding qualities of the ocean such as salinity and temperature
- Research assistant in the Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems (MSEAS) group, where his current research is on data-driven methods for reduced order modeling regarding oceanographic data

High School:
- Four-year letter winner in indoor and outdoor track and field and three-year winner in cross country at Harrison High School
- Holds the 600m and 800m school records
- Ran 1:58.36 in the 800 and 1:23.86 in the 600
- Won the Athletic Director's Award, Cross Country Coaches Award and the Indoor Track and Field Coaches Award
- Was All-League in both indoor track and field and cross country
- Scholar-Athlete
- Math Team captain
- Summa Cum Laude

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18First Year

    Mid-Distance
    6'0" 0 lbs
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    Mid-Distance
    6'0" 0 lbs
  • 2019-20Junior

    Mid-Distance
    6'0" 0 lbs
  • 2020-21Senior

    Mid-Distance
    6'0" 0 lbs
  • 2022-23Graduate Student

    Mid-Distance
    6'0" 150 lbs