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2021-22 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Alana Chandler

  • Height 5-3
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Chicago, Ill.
  • High School Walter Payton College Prep
  • Event Distance
  • Major Materials Science and Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
Indoor:

Mile - 5:24.38
3,000m - 10:30.91
5,000m - 18:35.37

Outdoor:
1,500m - 4:56.55
10,000m - 38:42.53

2021-22:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Competed in seven meets
- Finished 11th in the 10,000m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship with a season-best time of 38:42.53

2020-21:
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019-20:
- Competed in five meets, including winning the 3,000m vs. Bates and Colby in a time of 10:39.04

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Indoor track conditioning where the team cheered everyone on with so much spirit

Off the Track at MIT:
- Majoring in materials science and engineering with a minor in women and gender studies
- Staff writer for The Tech
- National University of Singapore's Low Energy Electronics Systems Research Assistant

Prior to MIT:
- Four-year letter winner in cross country and track at Walter Payton College Prep
- Cross country team captain
- High school record holder in cross country three mile, 3,200m and 1,600m
- Finished second in the CPS City Championship in the 3,200m in 2018
- Finished ninth in the state finals of the 3,200m
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Co-founder of Helping Paws Club
- Won the 2018 Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) National Scholarship
- Grand Prize Winner of the 2017 Heritage Japanese Speech Contest
- Won the 2017 Brown University Book Award

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First Year

    Distance
    5'2"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Distance
    5'2"
  • 2020-21Junior

    Distance
    5'2"
  • 2021-22Senior

    Distance
    5'3"