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Liam Ackerman

  • Height 6-2
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Miami, Fla.
  • High School John A. Ferguson Senior High School
  • Event Pole Vault
  • Major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
Indoor:

PV - 16', 4.75" (5.00m)

Outdoor:
PV - 16', 3.5" (4.97m)

2021-22:
- USTFCCCA All-Region (Indoor: Pole Vault; Outdoor: Pole Vault)
- NCAA Qualifier (Indoor: Pole Vault; Outdoor: Pole Vault)
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Competed in 16 meets with seven victories
- Won the pole vault at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

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

2019-20:
- Did not compete in the indoor season
- Outdoor season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2018-19:
- All-American (Indoor and Outdoor Pole Vault)
- NCAA Qualifier (Indoor and Outdoor Pole Vault)
- USTFCCCA All-Region (Indoor and Outdoor Pole Vault)
- NEWMAC First Team All-Conference (Pole Vault)
- New England D3 All-Region (Indoor and Outdoor Pole Vault)
- NEICAAA All-Region (Outdoor Pole Vault)
- Placed third at the NCAA Outdoor National Championship with a height of 15 feet, 11 inches
- Was fourth at the D3 Outdoor Championship with a jump of 14 feet, 7.5 inches
- Won the NEWMAC Championship at 15 feet, five inches
- Finished fourth at the NCAA Indoor National Championship with a jump of 16 feet, 2.75 inches and placed second at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

2017-18:
- All-New England in the pole vault
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
- Finished fourth in the pole vault at the D3 New England Indoor Championship with a height of 15 feet, 1.5 inches
- Was second in the pole vault at the Boston University Last Chance Qualifier with a season-best 15 feet, three inches
- Competed in nine meets
- Was third at the Tufts Last Chance Qualifier at 14 feet, 9.5 inches

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Overscoring to help the team finish as the runner-up at the 2019 D3 Outdoor National Meet with my teammates

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Scoring two consecutive personal bests at indoor nationals surrounded by supportive and successful friends, coaches, and family!

Off the Track at MIT:
- Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science with a concentration in economics
- Discovering semantic connections in multilingual documents (Japanese, Farsi, English) to enhance scholarly research
- Research under Professor Kurt Fendt in coordination with CSHASS and CSAIL.
- Full Stack Engineer at Nasdaq
- Software Engineer at Appian
- Intern at Ab Initio
- Developing predictive model for diabetes prevalance in the Media Lab's Biomechantronics Group
- Earned the Ashar Aziz Mens et Manus Scholarship

High School:
- Seven-time letter winner in indoor and outdoor track and field at John A. Ferguson Senior High School
- Two-time indoor national qualifier in the pole vault
- Indoor New York State Qualifier in the pole vault
- Indoor varsity catholic state champion
- Two-time Long Island Elite Meet champion
- Three-time New Jersey Beach Vault champion
- Freshman indoor city championship champion and meet record holder
- Personal bests of 14 feet, six inches indoors and 14 feet, seven inches outdoors
- Also played football his freshman and sophomore years
- Member of the National Honor Society, the Math Honor Society, Foreign Language Honor Society, Science Honor Society and English Honor Society
- Class representative as a freshman and sophomore
- Publicist and tutor for the Ferguson Writing Center
- Member of the St. Anthony's Friar Faithful Club
- AP Scholar with Honor
- High Honors student
- Received the St. Bonaventure Award
- National Merit Scholar Commended Student

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18First Year

    Pole Vault
    6'1"
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    Pole Vault
    6'1"
  • 2019-20Junior

    Pole Vault
    6'2"
  • 2020-21Senior

    Pole Vault
    6'2"
  • 2021-22Graduate Student

    Pole Vault
    6'2"