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2021 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster

Alana Chandler

  • Height 5-3
  • Class Senior
  • High School Walter Payton College Prep
  • Hometown Chicago, Ill.
  • Major Materials Science and Engineering

Biography

2021:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Competed at the Purple Valley Classic, where she placed 66th in a time of 26:26.4

2020:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- Competed in four meets
- Finished 36th in 24:33.7 at the season-opening Purple Valley Classic
- Placed 47th in the Blue Race at the Greater Louisville Classic, crossing in 19:09.4
- At the NEWMAC Championship, she finished 14th in a time of 23:27

2018:
- Did not compete in a race

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Indoor track conditioning where the team cheered everyone on with so much spirit

Off the Cross Country Trail at MIT:
- Majoring in materials science and engineering with a minor in women and gender studies
- Staff writer for The Tech
- National University of Singapore's Low Energy Electronics Systems Research Assistant

Prior to MIT:
- Four-year letter winner in cross country and track at Walter Payton College Prep
- Cross country team captain
- High school record holder in cross country three mile, 3,200m and 1,600m
- Finished second in the CPS City Championship in the 3,200m in 2018
- Finished ninth in the state finals of the 3,200m
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Co-founder of Helping Paws Club
- Won the 2018 Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) National Scholarship
- Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Heritage Japanese Speech Contest
- Won the 2017 Brown University Book Award

Historical Player Information

  • 2018First Year

    5'2"
  • 2019Sophomore

    5'3"
  • 2020Junior

    5'3"
  • 2021Senior

    5'3"