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2020 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster

Maya Beleznay

  • Height 5-5
  • Class First Year
  • High School Pine Crest School
  • Hometown Boca Raton, Fla.
  • Major Physics

Biography

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

Off the Cross Country Trail:
- Majoring in physics with a minor in mathematics and a concentration in French
- Member of Alpha Phi
- Conducted multiple research projects at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

High School:
- Won the Panther Leadership Award in 2019 and 2020
- Finished eighth in the 2016 cross country State Meet, third in 2017 and fourth in 2019
- NXRSE Third Team All-Region in 2017
- Qualified for NXN with the team in 2019
- Five-time letter winner in cross country and four-time winner in track and field
- Member of the English National Honor Society, French National Honor Society and Science National Honor Society
- Rho Kappa
- Mu Alpha Theta
- Beta Club
- Student Council Representative,
- Rho Kappa Co-President,
- Science Club Founder/Co-President
- Honor Roll student
- Received the Mount Holyoke Book Award
- Outstanding Mathematics, Science, Foreign Languages, Science Research Awards
- National Merit Finalist
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- National AP Scholar
- Cum Laude Society
- Qualified for National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium