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2024-25 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Tessa Everett

  • Height 5-3
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Niwot, Colo.
  • High School Niwot
  • Event Distance
  • Major Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS)


Accolades (outdoor):

  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2023-24, 2025)

2024-25:

  • Did not compete in a meet. 

2023-24: 

  • Competed in two meets

  • Finished 25th in the Mile at the Tufts Cupid Challenge

2022-23: 

  • Competed in two meets 

  • Finished 15th in the 1,500m at the NEWMAC Championship

Before MIT:

  • Finished seventh in the 3,200 and eighth in the 1,600 at the 2021 Colorado State Track and Field Championships

  • Finished 16th at the 2021 Colorado Cross Country State Championship as her team won the 2021 State Championship

  • Track and field team captured the 2021 and 2022 Colorado State Championship

  • Four-time letter winner in cross country and three-time winner in track and field

  • Also played soccer

  • Student-Athlete of the Year

  • National Honor Society

  • Science Student of the Month, Science Student of the Year

  • 4-H Member, Garden Club co-president, Leadership Committee in Environmental Club, Mwebaza Club Member

Personal:

  • Majoring in artificial intelligence and decision making

  • MISTI Bioengineering Internship at CeBib in Chile (2023)

  • Conducted Gut-Brain Axis research at the Bioelectronics Lab in the RLE @ MIT

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:

  • “Renting a van with teammates and driving 17 hours out to Michigan to watch our teams run at nationals (and then driving 17 hours right back)”

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    Distance
    5'4"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Distance
    5'3"
  • 2024-25Junior

    Distance
    5'3"