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2023-24 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Kirsi Rajagopal

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

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS)

Accolades (Indoor): 
- All-New England D3 - 3,000m (2022-23) 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 3,000m (2022-23)  

Accolades (Outdoor): 
- NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference - 5,000m (2022-23) 
- USTFCCCA All-Region - 5,000m (2022-23) 
- All-New England D3 - 5,000m (2022-23) 
- NCAA Qualifier - 5,000m (2022-23)

Accolades: 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2021-22, 2023-24)  
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (2022-23)

2023-24: 
- Competed in eight meets 
- Finished sixth in the 5,000m at the NEWMAC Championship 
- Placed 14th in the 3,000m at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

2022-23: 
- Competed in 12 meets 
- Finished 15th in the 5,000m at the NCAA Outdoor National Championship 
- Placed third in the 5,000m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 
- Finished second in the NEWMAC Championship 
- Placed fifth in the 3,000m and tenth in the 4x800 at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

2021-22: 
- Competed in six meets 
- Placed second in the 5,000m at the MIT Qualifier

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

2019-20:
- Did not compete in a meet

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 Track at MIT:
- Majoring in Computer Science, Economics and Data Science 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 3,000m and the 1,500m
- High Honor Roll student
- Cross country and track and field captain

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2021-22Junior

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2022-23Senior

    Distance
    5'8"
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

    Distance
    5'8"