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2023-24 MIT Men's Track and Field Roster

Lowell Hensgen

  • Height 5-11
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Raleigh, N.C.
  • High School Cardinal Gibbons
  • Event Distance
  • Major Computer Science and Mathematics

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS) 
Indoor: 
Mile - 4:17.37 
3,000m - 8:14.66 
5,000m - 14:13.41
 
Outdoor: 
1,500m - 4:00.29 
5,000m - 14:37.17 
10,000m - 30:08.49

Accolades (Indoor): 
- NCAA Qualifier - 2024 (5,000m - 15th)
- All-New England D3 - 5,000m (2020)
 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 5,000m (2023, 2024)
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 3,000m (2024)
- USTFCCCA All-America Second Team - 5,000m (2024)

 
Accolades (Outdoor): 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 5,000m (2022, 2023, 2024) 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 10,000m (2022, 2024) 
- All-New England D3 - 5,000m (2023) 
- NEICAAA All-New England - 10,000m (2023)
 
Accolades: 
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (2021-22) 
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (2022-23) 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022, 2023, 2024)

2023-24:
- Competed in 10 events, finished runner-up in the 3000m at the New England DIII Indoor Championships
2022-23: 
- Competed in three meets during the indoor season and six during the outdoor season 
- Finished third in the 10,000m at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championship 
- Finished sixth in the 5,000m at the New England D3 Indoor Championship 
- Finished seventh in the 5,000m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship

2021-22: 
- Competed in nine meets 
- Finished third in the 5,000m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship and at the NEWMAC Championship 
- Placed eighth in the 3,000m at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

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

2019-20: 
- Competed in seven indoor meets 
- Posted season-best times in the 1,000m and the mile at the Bates/Colby tri-meet 
- Placed fifth in the 5,000m in a time of 15:02.62 at the D3 New England Indoor Championship 
- Outdoor season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Favorite Sports Memory: 
- Daily runs in umstead with my high school team and hanging out in the park afterwards

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 
- Watching our top seven completely emptying the tank at nationals last year

Off the Track at MIT:  
- Majoring in computer science with a concentration in literature 
- Did a UROP in the Health Sciences and Technology department working with smartphones and mental health 
- Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solutions Group Software Engineering Intern. Developing a chaos engineering testing platform for Dell's On Premise Cloud Controller 
- Worked as an undergraduate researcher for Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology department focusing on digital phenotyping and mental health 
- Virtu Financial Strategy Developer Intern in 2022 
- Received the National Merit Scholarship 
- Machine Learning and Mental Health UROP  
High School: 
- Ran cross country and track at Cardinal Gibbons High School 
- North Carolina 4A 3,200m Outdoor Track State Champion 
- North Carolina 4A Mideast Region 3,200m Champion 
- 2019 Outdoor Track MVP and winner of the Cross-Country Coach's Award 
- Eight-time varsity letter winner in cross country and track and field 
- Class valedictorian 
- Member of the National Honor Society 
- National Merit Finalist and Scholarship winner 
- National AP Scholar

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2021-22Junior

    Distance
    5'11"
  • 2022-23Senior

    Distance
    5'11"
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

    Distance
    5'11"