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2023-24 MIT Men's Track and Field Roster

Jacob Hansen

  • Height 5-11
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Bountiful, Utah
  • High School Woods Cross
  • Event Distance
  • Major Computer Science

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS) 

Accolades (Outdoor): 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 5,000m (2024)
- NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team - 10,000m (2022)
 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 10,000m (2022) 
- All-New England D3 - 10,000m (2023) 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022, 2023)
2023-24:
- Competed in seven meets, won the 3000m event at the Gordon Kelly Invitational
2022-23: 
- Competed in three meets during the outdoor season 
- Finished third in the 10,000m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship

2021-22: 
- Competed in five meets, with two victories 
- Won the 10,000m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 
- Ran a season-best time in the 5,000m at the Sean Collier Invitational

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

Favorite Sports Memory: 
- Breaking my high school 3,200m record

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 
- My PR race!

Off the Track at MIT: 
- Pursuing a master's degree in computer science with a concentration in artificial intelligence
- Graduated from MIT in 2024 with a degree in computer science
- Remote Internship with Bio1 Systems 
- UROP in the lab of Dimitris Bertsimas
- MIT LDSSA (religious group for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

High School: 
- Holds the 3,200m school record in both indoor and outdoor track 
- Placed 21st at Foot Locker West in 2017 
- Finished fifth in the 2018 3,200m Utah State Track and Field Championship 
- Three-time varsity letter winner in both cross country and track and field 
- Also a member of the swim team 
- Class valedictorian 
- Member of the National Honor Society 
- Cross country team captain 
- Honor Roll student in every term 
- School Sterling Scholar in Science

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Distance
    5'11"
  • 2022-23Junior

    Distance
    5'11"
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

    Distance
    5'11"