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2024 MIT Women's Cross Country Roster

Tessa Everett

  • Height 5-4
  • Class Junior
  • High School Niwot
  • Hometown Niwot, Colo.
  • Major Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS.org)


Accolades: 

  • NEWMAC Athlete of the Week (Sept. 26, 2022) 
  • 2x NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2023, 2024) 

2024: 

  • Competed in one meet 
  • Finished 75th at the Connecticut College Invitational in 24:24.8 

2023: 

  • Competed in four meets 
  • Finished 17th at the Connecticut College Invitational in 23:58.6 
  • Placed 33rd at the NEWMAC Championship in 25:14.3 

2022: 

  • Competed in three meets 
  • Finished 45th at the Maribel Sanchez Souther in 24:49.36 
  • Was 60th overall and the first women's finisher at the Battle in Beantown with a time of 19:19 

Before MIT: 

  • Finished seventh in the 3,200 and eighth in the 1,600 at the 2021 Colorado State Track and Field Championships 
  • Finished 16th at the 2021 Colorado Cross Country State Championship as her team won the 2021 State Championship 
  • Track and field team captured the 2021 and 2022 Colorado State Championship 
  • Four-time letter winner in cross country and three-time winner in track and field 
  • Also played soccer 
  • Student-Athlete of the Year 
  • National Honor Society 
  • Science Student of the Month, Science Student of the Year 
  • 4-H Member, Garden Club co-president, Leadership Committee in Environmental Club, Mwebaza Club Member 

Personal: 

  • Majoring in artificial intelligence and decision making 
  • MISTI Bioengineering Internship at CeBib in Chile (2023) 
  • Conducted Gut-Brain Axis research at the Bioelectronics Lab in the RLE @ MIT 

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 

  • Renting a van with teammates and driving 17 hours out to Michigan to watch our teams run at nationals (and then driving 17 hours right back)

Historical Player Information

  • 2022First Year

    5'4"
  • 2023Sophomore

    5'4"
  • 2024Junior

    5'4"