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2019 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster

Emily Niu

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Junior
  • High School Corning-Painted Post
  • Hometown Painted Post, N.Y.
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

2019:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Competed in two meets, including a 19th-place finish at the NEWMAC Championship with a time of 23:41

2018:
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Placed 66th at the NEICAAA Championship in 19:27.23 and 80th at the UW-Oshkosh Kollege Town Sports Invitational in 23:35
- Crossed in 12th place at the NEWMAC Championship, running a time of 19:57
- Finished in 77th place at the NCAA Regional with a time of 23:32.84

2017:
- NEWMAC All-Conference
- Made her collegiate debut in the sub-varsity race at the NEICAAA Championship, where she finished 19th in 19:38.2
- Was 61st at the Cowbell Classic in 23:16.44, followed by a 14th-place finish at the NEWMAC Championship in 19:12
- Placed 139th at the NCAA Championship in 22:31.60 as she was the sixth finisher for MIT in the meet

Off the Cross Country Trail at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in economics
- UROP at the Harvard Medical School in the Church Lab

High School:
- Was a four-year letter winner in both indoor and outdoor track and a two-time letter winner in cross country at Corning-Painted Post High School
- Won the Distance Team MVP Award and the Coach's Workhorse Award
- Named to the New York State Cross Country All-State Team
- Won the 2016 Indoor Track Section 4 Class Championship in the 3,000 meters
- Won the 2017 Outdoor Track Section 4 Class Championship in the 3,000 meters and holds the DMR school record
- Class valedictorian
- Member of the National Honor Society and a National Merit Scholar Finalist
- Won the U.S. Army Reserve National Scholar-Athlete Award
- Received the Wineglass Marathon Scholarship Award and the Twin Tiers Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Award

Historical Player Information

  • 2017First Year

    5'5"
  • 2018Sophomore

    5'5"
  • 2019Junior

    5'5"