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2022-23 MIT Men's Track and Field Roster

Reed Foster

  • Height 5-10
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Palo Alto, Calif.
  • High School Palo Alto Senior
  • Event Mid-Distance
  • Major Electrical Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFFRS)
Indoor:

600m - 1:25.02
800m - 1:55.28
1,000m - 2:33.13

Outdoor:
400m - 52.37
800m - 1:57.93

2022-23:
- D3 All-New England (Indoor: 4x800)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference

2021-22:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Competed in three outdoor meets
- Finished 13th in the 800m at the NEWMAC Championship

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

2019-20:
- All-New England D3 (Indoor: 4x800)
- Finished seventh in the 4x800 at the New England D3 Indoor Championship
- Ran a season-best time of 2:33.13 in the 1,000m as he won the Tufts Cupid Challenge
- Posted three additional first-place finishes
- Outdoor season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2018-19:
- Was fifth in the 800m and sixth in the 4x400 relay at the NEWMAC Championship
- Ran a season-best time of 52.37 in the 400m in a dual meet with Williams

Off the Track at MIT:
- Majoring in electrical engineering with a concentration in linguistics
- Frameworks/internal-tools engineer at SiFive
- Digital architect/engineer at Astranis
- Developed models for simulation and modeling of plasmonic metamaterials with applications in optical energy harvesting for Ruonan Han's THz IC group 
- Designed and experimentally characterized electronics based on thin-film superconducting NbN for Karl Berggren's Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group
- Participated in the Center for Quantum Networks summer REU program
- Co-chair for IEEE Voltage, an undergraduate electrical engineering club

High School:
- Ran cross country and track and field at Palo Alto Senior High School, where he was varsity letters in both
- Two-time track MVP
- Finished second in the 800m at the Section Championship
- National Merit Finalist

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First Year

    Mid-Distance
    5'10"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Mid-Distance
    5'10"
  • 2020-21Junior

    Mid-Distance
    5'10"
  • 2021-22Senior

    Mid-Distance
    5'9"
  • 2022-23Graduate Student

    Mid-Distance
    5'10"