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2024 MIT Men's Volleyball Roster

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12 Nick Gustafson

  • Position RS
  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 215
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown San Diego, Calif.
  • High School Francis Parker

Biography

Career Highs
Kills 27 at NYU (4/1/23)
Assists 2 vs. Rivier (2/29/20)
at St. John Fisher (3/29/24)
Hitting Percentage .818 vs. Elmira (2/14/20)
Service Aces 3 Three Times – Most Recently at Springfield (4/3/24)
Digs 11 vs. St. John Fisher (3/11/23)
Block Solo 2 Five Times – Most Recently vs. American Int'l (4/6/24)
Block Assists 7 vs. MSOE (3/7/20)
vs. Elmira (4/14/23)

Accolades: 
- UVC Player of the Week (April 3, 2023; Feb. 20, 2024; April 1, 2024)
- UVC Rookie of the Week (Feb. 17, 2020)
- UVC All-Conference (First Team – 2024; Second Team – 2023) 
- UVC Academic All-Conference (2023, 2024) 
- AVCA All-Region (2024) 
- AVCA Second Team All-American (2024) 

2024: 
- Team Captain 
- Played in 88 sets, recording 381 kills, a .290 hitting percentage, 129 digs, 26 aces, and 49 blocks 
- Posted 19 double-digit kill matches highlighted by a 25 kill performance against Rivier on February 1  
- Led the team in kills and ranked second in service aces and digs 
- Finished third in the UVC and tenth nationally in kills per set (4.33) 
- Ranked third in the UVC and eleventh nationally in points per set (4.97)

2023:
- Team captain
- Led the team in kills (351) and ranked second in service aces (17) and fourth in digs (118)
- Played in 91 sets
- Had 20 matches with at least 10 kills

2022: 
- Appeared in seven matches 
- Recorded a career-high 19 kills in his first action of the season at Lasell
- Totaled 55 kills in 19 sets played

2021:
- Season Canceled due to COVID-19

2020: 
- In 18 matches, posted 137 kills (2.37 per set), a hitting percentage of .303, 21 digs and 28 blocks
- Registered a career-high 7 block assists against MSOE on March 7
- Posted six double-digit kill matches highlighted by a 16 kill performance against Elms on February 8
- Hit a season high .818 (10-1-26) in a 3-0 win against Elmira on February 14

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning my high school's first Division 1 championship in history

Off the Court at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science 
- Internships at Microsoft Corporation, SoundHound Inc.
- Software Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision Researcher
- Financial Data Analysis Intern at Nautilus General, Inc.
- UROP in MIT CSAIL
- MIT Motorsports

High School:
- A 2019 graduate of Francis Parker School
- San Diego Union Tribune's All-Academic Team Captain for Boys’ Volleyball 2019
- San Diego All-CIF First Team
- Western League Player of the Year
- MaxPreps Western Region Player of the Week
- San Diego Union-Tribune Player of the Week
- Francis Parker Athletic Achievement Award
- Francis Parker Boys’ Volleyball MVP
- Francis Parker Beach Volleyball MVP
- Francis Parker Hall of Fame Nominee 2019
- Recorded the second-highest number of total kills in the nation in 2019 (596)
- Set Francis Parker single-season kill record (596)
- 2017 San Diego CIF Division 1 Champion
- Captain of the men's volleyball team, the surf team and the beach volleyball team
- Cum Laude Society
- French Honor Society
- Honors with Distinction

Club:
- WAVE Volleyball Club

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2020First Year

    OH
    6'4" 0 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2021Sophomore

    OH
    6'4" 0 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2022Junior

    RS
    6'4" 200 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2023Senior

    OP
    6'4" 200 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2024Graduate Student

    RS
    6'5" 215 lbs
    12