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2023-24 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Meagan Rowlett

  • Height 5-1
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Dana Point, Calif.
  • High School Santa Margarita Catholic
  • Event Mid-Distance
  • Major Biological Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests (TFRRS)

Accolades (Outdoor): 
  •  All-New England D3 - 4x800 (2022-23)
Accolades (Indoor): 
  •  NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2021-22, 2023-24) 
2023-24: 
  •  Competed in eight meets 
  •  Finished fourth in the 4x800 and 18th in the 800m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 
  •  Placed fifth in the 800m at the NEWMAC Championship
2022-23: 
  •  Competed in nine meets 
  •  Finished third in the 4x800 and 14th in the 800m at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 
  •  Placed eighth in the 800m at the NEWMAC Championship 
  •  Finished tenth in the 4x800 and 17th in the 800m at the New England D3 Indoor Championship
2021-22: 
  •  Competed in four meets 
  •  Finished eighth in the 800m at the Sean Collier Invitational 
  •  Placed second in the 4x400 and third in the 600m at the MIT Tri-Meet
2020-21: 
  •  Did not compete as season was canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic
Before MIT: 
  •  A 2020 graduate of Santa Margarita Catholic High School 
  •  Earned one varsity letter in soccer and one in track 
  •  Broke the 4x800m relay school record in 2019 while running the 400m, 800m, 4x400m and 4x800m 
  •  Top 10 Goal Scorers of West DA Conference (2017-18, 2019-20) 
  •  2016 Adidas Young Champions Winner; 2019 Surf Cup Finalist 
  •  Identified for 2016 U.S. Soccer id2 
  •  2016 President's Cup Champions 
  •  Competed in CA State Championships for the SSS HS division in surfing 
  •  California Scholarship Federation 
  •  Surf Team Captain 
  •  Leader for STEAMPORT 
  •  Pacific Islander Culture Club Treasurer 
  •  Track Warm Up Leader 
  •  Surfrider Foundation Club Vice President 
  •  Group Leader for VBS at the Parish School 
  •  National Merit Commended Student 
  •  AP Scholar with Distinction 
  •  CAWS IB Student of the Year Nominee 
  •  ACT Perfect Score Recognition
Personal: 
  •  Majoring in biological engineering with a concentration in Spanish 
  •  Worked with the ELITE study at Stanford to study the genetic aspects of physical fitness within elite athletes 
  •  Completed research in Roche Lab on creating a biohybrid heart model for studying heart disease 
  •  Researched post-traumatic osteoarthritis within knees for the Grodzinsky Lab at MIT 
  •  Studied the biomechanical properties of leg muscles in the Valdez-Jasso Lab at UCSD 
  •  MIT MedLinks Residential Director 
  • Member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority 
  • Also a member of the MIT women's soccer team
Favorite Sports Memory: 
  •  Scoring the winning goal in the finals for President's Cup in 2016 while playing for an older team
Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 
  •  Making it to the Elite Eight in my first year playing for MIT soccer was awesome

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Mid-Distance
    5'2"
  • 2022-23Junior

    Mid-Distance
    5'2"
  • 2023-24Senior

    Mid-Distance
    5'1"