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2019-20 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Megan McCandless

  • Height 5-11
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Livermore, Calif.
  • High School Granada
  • Event Distance
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
Indoor
Mile - 5:20.08
3,000m - 10:10.93
5,000m - 17:37.90

Outdoor
800m - 2:33.80
1,500m - 4:55.65
3,000m SC - 11:20.64

2017-18:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
- Competed in five meets
- Won the 3,000m at the Bowdoin College Invitational in 10:20.19
- Ran a season-best 5:20.08 in the mile in the Bates/Colby Tri-Meet
- Ran 17:37.90 in the 5,000m at the BU John Thomas Terrier Classic, which was a season-best time

2016-17:
- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
- Competed in five meets
- Was second in the 5,000m at the Bowdoin Indoor Invitational in 18:15.12
- Placed fifth at the Tufts Stampede in the 3,000 in 10:10.93
- In a dual meet with Williams on 4/15, she was a member of the 4x800 team that ran 9:33.66 and also finished third in the 3,000m steeplechase in a time of 11:20.64

Off the Track at MIT:
- Majoring in mechanical engineering
- Interned at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in the electronics and payloads division
- Also interned at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Conducted research in flow boiling in nuclear reactors and critical heat flux
- Northrop Grumman Engineering Scholar and a Pedrozzi Scholar

High School:
- Ran cross country and track at Granada High School, where she was a four-year letterwinner in both sports
- Mercury News Athlete of the Week
- Finished second in the California State Cross Country Championship as a senior
- Placed 18th at Nike Cross Country Nationals as a senior
- Finished seventh at the California State Track and Field Championship in the 3,200 during her senior year
- Robotics Club president
- Four-year Honor Roll student and an AP Scholar with Distinction 

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First Year

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2019-20Senior

    Distance
    5'11"