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2024 MIT Men's Volleyball Roster

David Silverman

17 Dylan Ryan

  • Position MH
  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 200
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Oviedo, Fla.
  • High School Lyman

Biography

Career Highs
Kills 15 vs. Elmira (3/4/22)
Assists 1 15 Times - Most Recently at Wentworth (1/28/23)
Hitting Percentage 1.000 vs. Johnson & Wales (2/1/20)
Service Aces 3 vs. Sage (2/29/20)
Digs 4 vs. New Paltz (3/6/20)
Block Solo 3 at Lasell (3/11/22)
Block Assists 8 at Eastern Nazarene (1/21/23)
vs. NYU (4/2/22)

Accolades: 
- UVC Academic All-Conference (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

2024: 
- Team Captain 
- Did not see any action

2023:
- Team Captain
- Saw action in 22 sets
- Finished with 36 kills, six aces and eight digs

2022: 
- Team Captain
- Played in 17 matches
- Recorded 102 kills, fourth most on the team
- Fourth on the team with 10 aces

2021:
- Season Canceled due to COVID-19

2020:
- In 17 matches, posted 96 kills, a hitting percentage of .377, ten service aces, 19 digs and 46 blocks
- Led the Engineers in blocks and hitting percentage (over four attempts)
- Posted 12 kills against Lasell and six assisted blocks against Elms for single match career-highs

Favorite Sports Memory:
- 2016 Cavaliers Championship

Favorite Moment as as MIT Student-Athlete:
- Beating Vassar in 5 sets freshmen year prior to COVID.

Off the Court at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering
- Minoring in computer science
- Concentration in philosophy 
- Internship at RegenX
- Interned in Viable Engineering Solutions at Siemens Energy Innovation Center
- UROP with the MSEAS Group
- L^3
- Sigma Chi
- Volunteer at the MIT Chapel

High School:
- A 2019 graduate of Lyman High School
- Valedictorian
- Earned varsity letters in volleyball and soccer
- Two-time All-Conference First Team Volleyball
- Honorable Mention All-State Team Volleyball
- All-Conference Second Team Soccer
- 2019 Ron Davis FHSAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year
- Placed second at USAV HP Championships twice and fifth twice at USAV Nationals
- 2019 AAU National Champion
- President of National Honor Society
- Vice President of SGA Class of 2019
- Seminole County Scholar Athlete of the Year
- 2019 Ron Davis Florida High School Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Club:
- Mark's Volleyball Prep Academy
- AAU All-American 2018 Boys Junior National Championships

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 16

    2020First Year

    MB
    6'6" 0 lbs
    16
  • 16

    2021Sophomore

    MB
    6'6" 0 lbs
    16
  • 16
    C

    2022Junior

    M
    6'5" 195 lbs
    16
    C
  • 16
    C

    2023Senior

    M
    6'5" 200 lbs
    16
    C
  • 17

    2024Graduate Student

    MH
    6'5" 200 lbs
    17