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2016-17 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Natalie Alper

  • Height 5-6
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Columbia, Md.
  • High School Atholton
  • Event Jumps
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
Indoor:

200m - 28.80
800m - 2:25.90
60H - 10.14
HJ: 5', 5.25" (1.66m)
LJ: 17', 1.25" (5.21m)
SP: 26, 11" (8.21m)
Pent: 3142

Outdoor:
HJ: 5', 5.25" (1.66m) - MIT Varsity Outdoor Record
LJ: 16', 10.75" (5.15m)
JT: 69', 5" (21.16m)

2016-17: New England All-Region (Indoor - Pentathon and 4x400)...USTFCCCA All-Academic Team... NEWMAC Champion (High Jump)... NEWMAC Academic All-Conference... CoSIDA Academic All-District... Won the high jump at the Bowdoin Indoor Invitational, along with a season-best of 5 feet, 5.25 inches in a win at the Tufts Stampede... Finished fifth at the New England D3 Indoor Championship in the pentathlon with a personal-best total of 3,142 points... Jumped 5 feet, 4.25 inches to win the high jump at the NEWMAC Championship... Finished sixth at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championship with a height of 5 feet, 5 inches.

2015-16:
New England All-Region (Indoor - High Jump and Pentathlon; Outdoor - High Jump) … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … NEWMAC Relay Team of the Week (4/18) … competed in eight indoor meets … produced a fourth place finish with 3110 points in her first ever pentathlon at the New England Division III Indoor Championship (2/19-20) …during that meet, she set personal bests in the 800m (2:25.90), the 60H (10.21), the high jump (5’, 5.25”) and the shot put (24’, 2.25”) … competed in eight outdoor meets … finished third in the high jump and the 4x100 relay at the NEWMAC Championship (4/30) … registered five event victories during the outdoor season including three relay wins.

2014-15: NEWMAC Champion (4x100 relay) … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … competed in nine indoor meets … set a personal record leap of 17’, 1.25” in the long jump at the New England Division III Indoor Championship where she placed seventh (2/20-21) … won the long jump at the Bowdoin Invitational #1 (1/17) … competed in eight outdoor meets … also helped the 4x100 relay team to victories at the Colby Invitational (4/11-12) and the Engineers Cup (4/4) … had a season best mark of 5’, 5” for fifth place in the high jump at the NEICAAA Championship (5/7-9) and best distance of 16’, 7.25” for 11th place at the New England Division III Outdoor Championship (4/30-5/2). 

2013-14: (Outdoor): competed in the high jump … wrapped up outdoor season with a personal best height of 5-02.25 for an 11th place finish at the New England Division III Championships (5/3) ... cleared 5-01.75 to finish fifth at the NEWMAC Championships (4/26) … was runner-up at Bates (4/12) with a jump of 5-00.25 … finished sixth in her first outdoor collegiate meet, the Westmont Collegiate Classic (3/29) by clearing 5-01.00 … (Indoor): competed in the high jump and the 200m dash … ended indoor season tying her season best jump of 5-01.00 at the New England Division III Championships (2/22) … finished seventh at the Tufts Stampede Invite (2/1) clearing 5-00.25 … recorded a season best 5-01.00 for a fifth place finish at the Bowdoin Quad (1/18), also recorded a season best 200m dash, crossing tenth in 28.80.

Off the Track: Majoring in mechanical engineering … interned at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA JPL and Fitbit ... completed research in the Bioinstrumentation Lab ... GEBA Scholar.

High School: A 2013 graduate of Atholton High School … MVP … captain … 10-time varsity letterwinner … also played softball and volleyball … National Honor Society … Science National Honor Society … French National Honor Society … MPSSSA Minds in Motion scholarship … GEBA academic scholarship … SWE Exelon Corporation scholarship.

Collegiate Personal Bests:

Indoor:

200m – 28.80

800m – 2:25.90

60H – 10.21

HJ: 5’, 5.25” (1.66m)

LJ: 17’, 1.25” (5.21m)

SP: 24’, 2.25” (7.37m)

Pent: 3,110

 

Outdoor:

HJ: 5’, 5” (1.65m)

LJ: 16’, 9.75” (5.12m)

JT: 69’, 5” (21.16m)

2015-16: New England All-Region (High Jump and Pentathlon – Indoor, High Jump – Outdoor) … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … NEWMAC Relay Team of the Week (4/18) … competed in eight indoor meets … produced a fourth place finish with 3110 points in her first ever pentathlon at the New England Division III Indoor Championship (2/19-20) …during that meet, she set personal bests in the 800m (2:25.90), the 60H (10.21), the high jump (5’, 5.25”) and the shot put (24’, 2.25”) … competed in eight outdoor meets … finished third in the high jump and the 4x100 relay at the NEWMAC Championship (4/30) … registered five event victories during the outdoor season including three relay wins.

2014-15: NEWMAC Champion (4x100 relay) … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … competed in nine indoor meets … set a personal record leap of 17’, 1.25” in the long jump at the New England Division III Indoor Championship where she placed seventh (2/20-21) … won the long jump at the Bowdoin Invitational #1 (1/17) … competed in eight outdoor meets … also helped the 4x100 relay team to victories at the Colby Invitational (4/11-12) and the Engineers Cup (4/4) … had a season best mark of 5’, 5” for fifth place in the high jump at the NEICAAA Championship (5/7-9) and best distance of 16’, 7.25” for 11th place at the New England Division III Outdoor Championship (4/30-5/2).

2013-14: (Outdoor): competed in the high jump … wrapped up outdoor season with a personal best height of 5-02.25 for an 11th place finish at the New England Division III Championships (5/3) ... cleared 5-01.75 to finish fifth at the NEWMAC Championships (4/26) … was runner-up at Bates (4/12) with a jump of 5-00.25 … finished sixth in her first outdoor collegiate meet, the Westmont Collegiate Classic (3/29) by clearing 5-01.00 … (Indoor): competed in the high jump and the 200m dash … ended indoor season tying her season best jump of 5-01.00 at the New England Division III Championships (2/22) … finished seventh at the Tufts Stampede Invite (2/1) clearing 5-00.25 … recorded a season best 5-01.00 for a fifth place finish at the Bowdoin Quad (1/18), also recorded a season best 200m dash, crossing tenth in 28.80.

Off the Track: Majoring in mechanical engineering … interned at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ... completed research in the Bioinstrumentation Lab ... GEBA Scholar.

Historical Player Information

  • 2013-14First Year

    Jumps
    5'6"
  • 2014-15Sophomore

    Jumps
    5'6"
  • 2015-16Junior

    Jumps
    5'6"
  • 2016-17Senior

    Jumps
    5'6"