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2019 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster

Emily Skilling

  • Height 5-4
  • Class Junior
  • High School Miramonte
  • Hometown Alamo, Calif.
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

 

2019:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Finished 75th at the Purple Valley Classic with a time of 25:55.6

2018:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Finished 52nd at the Purple Valley Classic in a time of 24:29.1

2017:
- Made her collegiate debut at the Purple Valley Classic, placing 204th in 26:40.4
- Was 50th at the NEWMAC Championship in 20:30

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Watching the Boston Marathon.

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Watching Marissa McPhillips qualify for Nationals in the 3K at BU

Off the Cross Country Trail at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in design and a concentration in women & gender studies
- UROP with MIT's Little Devices Lab designing palm-sized robots to carry out bioreactions
- Member of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program

High School:
- Played soccer and ran cross country and track and field at Miramonte High School
- Won two letters in track and field and one each in cross country and soccer
- Won the Coaches Award in 2017 and the Most Improved Award in 2016
- 2016 Diablo Athletic League Cross Country Third Team All-League
- Placed fifth in the 3,200 in the 2017 DAL Championship
- Her team won the 2016 D4 North Coast Section Championship and was fifth in the 2016 D4 Varsity Cross Country Championship
- National AP Scholar
- Three-time winner of the National Latin Exam Summa Cum Laude Award
- Won the Magna Cum Laude Award in 2017
- National Merit Scholarship semifinalist in 2016
- Women in STEM Club publicity officer

Historical Player Information

  • 2018Sophomore

    5'5"
  • 2019Junior

    5'4"