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2023 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster

Kirsi Rajagopal

  • Height 5-8
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Harrison
  • Hometown Harrison, N.Y.
  • Major Computer Science, Data Science and Economics

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS) 
6K - 22:28.9

Accolades:   
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Week (Sept. 30, 2019) 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- NEWMAC All-Conference (2022) 
- USTFCCCA All-Region (2022) 
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (2022)

2023: 
- Did not compete in a race

2022:
- Competed in five meets
- Placed 14th at the NEWMAC Championship in a time of 22:53.9
- Finished 16th at the NCAA Regional at 23:04.7

2021:
- Competed in two meets
- Placed sixth in the White Race at the Connecticut College Invitational with a time of 23:58.1
- Finished 41st at the NEWMAC Championship in 24:25.9

2020:
- Did not compete as the season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019:
- Competed in four meets
- Finished fourth at the Purple Valley Classic in a time of 23:26.5
- Placed seventh at the Greater Louisville Classic in 14:06.8, along with a 36th-place finish at the Connecticut College Invitational at 22:28.9
- Finished 70th at the NCAA Regional with a time of 23:02.8

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning county championships in high school when it was really hot out

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Traveling to nationals with the cross country team freshman year at MIT

Off the Trail at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science, data science and economics with a minor in mathematics and a concentration in economics
- Summer Analyst at Jefferies LLC, Investment intern for a small fund of funds
- Research assistant at MIT for Evlab, working on finding cosine similarity between brain signals given different word stimuli

High School:
- Ran cross country and track at Harrison High School, where she received two varsity letters in cross country and four in track from 2015-19
- Cross Country First Team for NY Section 1
- Received the Scholar-Athlete Award
- School record holder in the 3K and the 1,500m
- High Honor Roll student
- Cross country and track and field captain

Historical Player Information

  • 2019First Year

    5'8"
  • 2020Sophomore

    5'8"
  • 2021Junior

    5'8"
  • 2022Senior

    5'8"
  • 2023Graduate Student

    5'8"