MIT Engineers

MIT Engineers
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;
Website	mitathletics.com

Last updated May 30, 2025

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

Men's sports	Women's sports
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

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

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

Team

Sport	Association	Division	Year	Opponent/Runner-up	Score
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

Name	Sport	Event	Division	Year
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

Ice hockey

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

Sources:^[12]^[13]

Venue	Varsity sport(s)	Non-varsity sport(s)
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
Rockwell Cage	Volleyball	Archery, Badminton, Basketball, 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

↑ "Colors - MIT Graphic Identity" . Retrieved May 25, 2016.
↑ "CoSIDA Academic All-America All-Time Recipients". MIT. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
↑ "NCAA Elite 90 Award All-Time Recipients". MIT. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ "Tim the Beaver Mascot History". MIT Division of Student Life. 1998. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
↑ "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.
↑ 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.
↑ "The MIT Beaver Call". Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
↑ "MIT, Wisconsin-La Crosse win 2023 DIII track & field championships | NCAA.com". www.ncaa.com.
↑ "1902 Technique" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
↑ Facilities on Mitathletics.com
↑ 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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[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.

[TimBeaver-6] "Tim the Beaver Mascot History". MIT Division of Student Life. 1998. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2012-11-22.

[:0-7] "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.

[The_MIT_Beaver_Call-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.

[facil-12] Facilities on Mitathletics.com

[Athletics-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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