MIT Engineers

MIT's intercollegiate sports teams

Athletic teams representing Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Engineers

University| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conference| NEWMAC (primary)

List

*     * Collegiate Water Polo Association (men's water polo)
* Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges (women's crew)
* Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (women’s crew)
* Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (men's squash)
* New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (sailing)
* United Volleyball Conference (men's volleyball)

NCAA| Division III (main)
Division I (women's crew & men's water polo)
Athletic director| Dr. G. Anthony Grant
Location| Cambridge, Massachusetts
Varsity teams| 33
Football stadium| Henry G. Steinbrenner '27 Stadium
Basketball arena| Rockwell Cage
Baseball stadium| Fran O'Brien Field
Softball stadium| Briggs Field
Soccer stadium| Steinbrenner Stadium
Lacrosse stadium| Roberts Field
Rowing venue| Richard J. Resch Boathouse
Sailing venue| Walter C. Wood Sailing Pavilion
Mascot| Tim the Beaver
Nickname| Engineers
Fight song| The Beaver Call
Colors| Cardinal red and steel gray[1]

Website| mitathletics.com

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's intercollegiate sports teams, called the MIT Engineers, compete mostly in NCAA Division III. MIT has won 22 Team National Championships and 42 Individual National Championships. MIT is the all-time Division III leader in producing Academic All-Americans (302) and ranks second across all NCAA Divisions.[2] MIT athletes have won 13 Elite 90 awards, ranking MIT first among NCAA Division III programs and third among all divisions.[3] Most of the school's sports compete in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), with sports not sponsored by the NEWMAC housed in several other conferences. Men's volleyball competes in the single-sport United Volleyball Conference.

One MIT sport, women's rowing, competes in Division I in the Patriot League. Men's water polo, a sport in which the NCAA holds a single national championship for all three of its divisions, competes in the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) alongside Division I and Division II members. Three sports compete outside NCAA governance: men's rowing competes in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC), sailing in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association of ICSA and squash in the College Squash Association. In April 2009, budget cuts led to MIT's eliminating eight of its 41 sports, including the mixed men's and women's teams in alpine skiing and pistol; separate teams for men and women in ice hockey and gymnastics; and men's programs in golf and wrestling.[4][5]

## Varsity sports

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Men's sports  | Women's sports

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Baseball | Basketball
Basketball | Crew-Openweight
Crew-Heavyweight | Crew-Lightweight
Crew-Lightweight | Cross country
Cross country | Fencing
Fencing | Field Hockey
Football | Lacrosse
Lacrosse | Rifle
Rifle | Sailing
Sailing | Soccer
Soccer | Squash
Squash | Swimming and diving
Swimming and diving | Tennis
Tennis | Track and field1
Track and field1 | Volleyball
Volleyball |
Water polo |
Co-ed sports
Fencing – Sailing
1 – includes both indoor and outdoor

## Mascot

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The beaver, "nature's engineer", was adopted as mascot at the annual dinner of the Technology Club of New York on January 17, 1914 by a group of MIT alumni. The late President Richard Maclaurin formally accepted the proposal, and at this dinner a group of beavers shown in natural surroundings was presented to the Institute. Lester Gardner, a member of the Class of 1898, provided the following justification: "The beaver not only typifies the Tech, but his habits are particularly our own. The beaver is noted for his engineering and mechanical skills and habits of industry. His habits are nocturnal. He does his best work in the dark."[6]

The beaver has since been nicknamed Tim the Beaver, Tim being MIT spelled backwards.

## Nickname and song

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The initial MIT football team was nicknamed the Techmen.[7] After being discontinued in 1901 and self-reinstated by a group of students in 1978, the team called themselves the Engineers, which then become tradition until now. The team also revived the old fighting song, now dubbed as "The Beaver Calls".[8] The lyric reads:[9]

> I'm a beaver, you're a beaver, we are beavers all.
>  And when we get together, we do the beaver call.
>  e to the u, du / dx
>  e to the x, dx
>  Cosine, secant, tangent, sine;
>  3.14159
>  Square root, integral, mu dv
>  Slipstick, slide rule, MIT!
>  GO TECH!

## NCAA championships

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### Team

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A football game between MIT and the United States Coast Guard Academy in 2019 MIT basketball team for the 1922–23 season MIT sailing team in 2012 Sport  | Association  | Division  | Year  | Opponent/Runner-up  | Score

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Men's cross country (1)  | NCAA | Division III | 2022  | Wartburg | 82–129
Women's cross country (1)  | NCAA | Division III | 2024  | Chicago | 128–138
Men's Outdoor Track and Field (1)  | NCAA | Division III | 2023[10] | UW-La Crosse | 60.5–49

### Individual

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Name  | Sport  | Event  | Division  | Year

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Henry Steinbrenner  | Men's Track and Field | 220yd Hurdles  | NC | 1927
John Pearson  | Men's Track and Field | Hammer Throw  | Division III  | 1974
Frank Richardson  | Men's Track and Field | 10,000m  | Division III  | 1977
Dave Kieda  | Men's Track and Field | Hammer Throw  | Division III  | 1982
Pat Parris  | Men's Indoor Track | Weight Throw  | Division III  | 1985
Yvonne Grierson  | Women's Swimming | 100m Butterfly  | Division III  | 1988
Yvonne Grierson  | Women's Swimming | 100m Freestyle  | Division III  | 1989
Yvonne Grierson  | Women's Swimming | 100m Butterfly  | Division III  | 1989
Scott Deering  | Men's Indoor Track | Weight Throw  | Division III  | 1989
Bill Singhose  | Men's Track and Field | Decathlon  | Division III  | 1989
Boniface Makitiani  | Men's Indoor Track | 400m  | Division III  | 1990
Yvonne Grierson  | Women's Swimming | 100m Butterfly  | Division III  | 1990
Mark Dunzo  | Men's Indoor Track | 400m  | Division III  | 1991
Ethan Crain  | Men's Track and Field | 1500m  | Division III  | 1994
John Wallberg  | Men's Indoor Track | Weight Throw  | Division III  | 1997
Caroline Purcell  | Women's Fencing | Sabre  | NC | 2000
Uzoma Orji  | Men's Indoor Track | Shot Put  | Division III  | 2004
Uzoma Orji  | Men's Indoor Track | Shot Put  | Division III  | 2005
Uzoma Orji  | Men's Indoor Track | Weight Throw  | Division III  | 2005
Doria Holbrook  | Women's Diving | 3 meter  | Division III  | 2005
Uzoma Orji  | Men's Indoor Track | Shot Put  | Division III  | 2006
Uzoma Orji  | Men's Indoor Track | Weight Throw  | Division III  | 2006
Doria Holbrook  | Women's Diving | 3 meter  | Division III  | 2007
Jacqui Wentz  | Women's Track and Field | Steeplechase  | Division III  | 2010
Stephen Morton  | Men's Track and Field | Long Jump  | Division III  | 2010
Bo Mattix, Michael Liao,

Wyatt Ubellacker, Chraig Cheney

| Men's Swimming | 200m Medley Relay  | Division III  | 2013
Wyatt Ubellacker  | Men's Swimming | 50m Freestyle  | Division III  | 2013
Wyatt Ubellacker  | Men's Swimming | 100m Butterfly  | Division III  | 2013
Cimran Virdi  | Women's Indoor Track | Pole Vault  | Division III  | 2014
Cimran Virdi  | Women's Indoor Track | Pole Vault  | Division III  | 2015
Maryann Gong  | Women's Indoor Track | 3000m  | Division III  | 2015
Cimran Virdi  | Women's Track and Field | Pole Vault  | Division III  | 2015
Dougie Kogut  | Men's Swimming | 200m Butterfly  | Division III  | 2016
Cimran Virdi  | Women's Track and Field | Pole Vault  | Division III  | 2016
Yorai Shaoul  | Men's Indoor Track | Triple Jump  | Division III  | 2019
Jay Lang  | Men's Diving | 3 meter  | Division III  | 2019
Yorai Shaoul  | Men's Track and Field | Triple Jump  | Division III  | 2019
Edenna Chen  | Women's Swimming | 100m Breaststroke  | Division III  | 2022
Adam Janicki, Tobe Obochi,

Kyri Chen, Alex Ellison

| Men's Swimming | 200m Freestyle Relay  | Division III  | 2022
Tobe Obochi, Jaden Luo,

Kyri Chen, Alex Ellison

| Men's Swimming | 400m Freestyle Relay  | Division III  | 2022
Tobe Obochi  | Men's Swimming | 100m Freestlye  | Division III  | 2022
Ryan Wilson  | Men's Indoor Track | 800m  | Division III  | 2022
Kenneth Wei  | Men's Indoor Track | Long Jump  | Division III  | 2022
Ryan Wilson  | Men's Track and Field | 800m  | Division III  | 2022
Kenneth Wei  | Men's Track and Field | Long Jump  | Division III  | 2022
Kenneth Wei  | Men's Track and Field | 110m Hurdles  | Division III  | 2022
Luka Srsic  | Men's Track and Field | Pole Vault  | Division III  | 2022
Kimmy McPherson  | Women's Track and Field | High Jump  | Division III  | 2022

## Individual teams

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### Ice hockey

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MIT's men's ice hockey team was one of the earliest collegiate hockey programs in the United States. It "was organized in the winter of 1899 to introduce the Canadian game of Hockey in the Institute".[11] The team has played almost continually since.

## Facilities

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Sources:[12][13]

Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center Wood Sailing Pavilion Venue  | Varsity sport(s)  | Non-varsity sport(s)

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Zesiger sports and fitness center | Squash | Dodgeball, Floor Hockey, Soccer, Triathlon, Parkour, Spikeball, Tsegball
Swimming
Water polo
Alumni Pool & Wang Fitness Center | – | Thriatlon
Johnson Athletic Center | Fencing | Cricket, Figure Skating, Ice Hockey, Soccer
Tennis
Track and field
Rockwell Cage | Basketball | Archery, Badminton, Basketball, Volleyball
Volleyball
Dupont Athletic Center | Basketball | Air Pistol, Cheerleading, Golf, Gymnastics, Martial Arts, Sport Pistol, Table Tennis, Wrestling
Fencing
Rifle
Volleyball
Henry Steinbrenner Stadium | Football | Rugby, Soccer, Ultimate Frisbee
Lacrosse
Soccer
Track and field (outdoor)
Fran O'Brien Field | Baseball | –
Briggs Field | Softball | –
Dupont Tennis Courts | Tennis | Tennis
J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble | Tennis | Tennis
Walter Wood Pavilion | Sailing | –
Richard Resch Boathouse | Rowing | Rowing
Briggs Practice Fields | – | Rugby, Soccer, Ultimate Frisbee

## References

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1. ^ "Colors - MIT Graphic Identity". Retrieved May 25, 2016.
2. ^ "CoSIDA Academic All-America All-Time Recipients". MIT. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
3. ^ "NCAA Elite 90 Award All-Time Recipients". MIT. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
4. ^ Cohen, Rachel (May 18, 2010). "MIT the No. 1 jock school? You're kidding, right?". Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-25.
5. ^ Powers, John (April 24, 2009). "MIT forced to cut 8 varsity sports". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on April 30, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
6. ^ "Tim the Beaver Mascot History". MIT Division of Student Life. 1998. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
7. ^ "From cancelled to champions: The strange history of MIT Football". MIT News. 19 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
8. ^ Cohen, Ben (2014-11-23). "How Players at MIT Engineered a Football Team". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
9. ^ "The MIT Beaver Call". Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
10. ^ "MIT, Wisconsin-La Crosse win 2023 DIII track & field championships | NCAA.com". www.ncaa.com.
11. ^ "1902 Technique" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
12. ^ Facilities on Mitathletics.com
13. ^ Dept. of Athletics (Aug 2012). "2012–13 Quick Facts" (PDF). MIT. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2015-10-01. "Intercollegiate Athletics: 33 varsity sports."

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