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2021-22 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Izzi Gengaro

  • Height 5-0
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Boonton Township, N.J.
  • High School Mountain Lakes
  • Event Distance
  • Major Chemical-Biological Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
Indoor:

3,000m - 9:49.67
5,000m - 16:58.41

Outdoor:
1,500m - 4:42.96
5,000m - 17:21.42
10,000m - 35:24.99

2021-22:
- USTFCCCA All-Region (Indoor: 3,000m, 5,000m; Outdoor: 5,000m, 10,000m)
- NCAA Qualifier (Indoor: 3,000m, 5,000m; Outdoor: 10,000m)
- USTFCCCA All-American (Indoor: 5,000m)
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (Indoor and Outdoor)
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American
- Competed in nine meets
- Finished 18th in the 10,000m at the NCAA Outdoor Championship
- Placed eighth in the 5,000m and 19th in the 3,000m at the NCAA Indoor Championship

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

2019-20:
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning the New England Regional XC Title in 2019

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Running at XC NCAA's in 2019 as a team

Off the Track at MIT:
- Majoring in chemical-biological engineering with a minor in computer science
- Research intern at Clinical Genomics
- Eli Lilly Research Scientist
- Regeneron Bioreactor Scale Up
- Researched heterologous protein expression optimization in the Love Lab
- Circular polymer entanglement research in the Doyle Lab

Prior to MIT:
- Three-time letter winner in cross country and indoor track and four-time letter winner in outdoor track at Mountain Lakes High School
- Three-time First Team All-County and All-Group
- Six-time First Team All-Conference
- Cross Country State Sectional Champion
- Two-time State Sectional Indoor Champion in both the 1,600 and 3,200m
- Two-time State Group Champion indoors in the 1,600m and 3,200m
- Three-time State Sectional Champion in the 3,200 and State Sectional Champion in the 1,600m
- 4x800m school record holder and finished second in the NJ Meet of Champions
- Class valedictorian
- Member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society
- National Merit Finalist

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19First Year

    Distance
    5'0"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    Distance
    5'0"
  • 2020-21Junior

    Distance
    5'0"
  • 2021-22Senior

    Distance
    5'0"