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2023-24 MIT Men's Track and Field Roster

Ben Barnhart

Spencer Yandrofski

  • Height 6-3
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Mebane, N.C.
  • High School East Chapel Hill
  • Event Jumps
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS) 
Indoor: 
HJ - 6' 5" (1.96m)
 
Outdoor: 
HJ - 6' 5" (1.96m) 
LJ - 21' 5.25" (6.53m)

Accolades (Indoor): 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - High Jump (2022)
 
Accolades (Outdoor): 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - High Jump (2023) 
- All-New England D3 - High Jump (2023) 
- NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team - High Jump (2022)
 
Accolades: 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2022, 2023, 2024)

2023-24:
- Won the high jump at the Sean Collier Invitational
2022-23: 
- Competed in five meets during the outdoor season 
- Finished fifth in the high jump at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 
- Finished ninth in the high jump at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championship

2021-22: 
- Jumped six feet, five inches to finish second at the Coach's Invitational 
- Finished seventh in the high jump at the New England D3 Indoor Championship 
- Placed second in the high jump at the NEWMAC Championship and fifth in the long jump 
- Finished third in the high jump at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship

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

Off the Track at MIT: 
- Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in machine learning 
- CFD Design Space and Automation Intern at Altair Engineering (2021) 
- Device Physics Modeling Intern at Seagate Technology (2022) 
- Involved in MIT Motorsports and MIT Ultimate Frisbee 
- Deep generative lens design research with MIT DeCoDE Lab 
- Battery chemistry research with MIT Electrochemical Energy Lab 
- Ernest Cravalho Award for Outstanding Performance in Thermal-Fluids Engineering 
- Victor Simon Memorial Scholarship 
- President of Theta Chi Fraternity, Beta Chapter

High School: 
- Placed seventh in North Carolina in the high jump as a junior 
- Five-time varsity letter winner between indoor and outdoor track and field 
 outdoor track letter winner and two-time indoor recipient 
- Also played basketball 
- Class valedictorian 
- Vice-president of the East Chapel Hill Science Olympiad 
- Received the E. Wayne Kay Undergraduate Scholarship

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    Jumps
    6'4"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Jumps
    6'4"
  • 2022-23Junior

    Jumps
    6'4"
  • 2023-24Senior

    Jumps
    6'3"