November is Championship Month for Several MIT Squads

Cambridge, Mass. – Several teams representing MIT athletics had impressive showings at their respective Championship tournaments during the month of November.

Both the men and women cross country teams are headed to Waverly, Iowa for this Saturday’s NCAA Division III National Championships. After each squad captured the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) crown, the men were victorious at the New England Regional Championships , hosted by Williams College. Paul Welle placed sixth overall for Tech, who had two other runners in the top 12 of the meet.

The women punched their ticket to Iowa thanks to an eight large bid, and will head to Nationals on the legs of a fourth place finish in Williamstown. Tania Morimoto and Alina Gatowski placed eighth and ninth, respectively to pace the Engineers, who are currently ranked 7th in the nation. This is the first time in school history that both the men and women have qualified as a team for the National Championships.

After winning the Division III Eastern Championships at Connecticut College at the end of December, the MIT water polo team came home to host the Northern Division Championship, where they came into the tournament as the 3rd ranked team. Despite falling to Fordham in the third place match, the Engineers still earned a berth into the College Water Polo Association Eastern Championships, held Friday, November 19th to Sunday, November 21st at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The Engineers are again the fourth seed in the tournament and will play top seeded Princeton at 11:30 AM on Friday. Each team is guaranteed a game each day, so Tech will be fighting for position in the pool all weekend.

Finally, the MIT coed sailing team ended a very successful fall season by placing 13th at the 2010 Atlantic Coast dinghy championships, hosted by the Naval Academy. The Engineers were one of 18 teams from up and down the East Coast who had qualified for the championship weekend thanks to previous finishes, including a seventh place finish at last month's Erwin Schell Trophy.

Congratulations to all of the MIT fall teams and good luck to those still competing and the winter sports that are about to kick off their campaigns.

More Coverage on the Fall Championships at MIT Fall Championship Central.

Healthy Halloween Open House

This year's healthy halloween open house was a great success!  Thank you everyone that joined us for the fun. Here are some pictures of the event for you to enjoy.

Healthy Halloween

Tech Tip

The holiday season is right around the corner and scam artists and spammers will be out in full force to contaminate your computer, hi-jack your information or make offers that seem too good to be true.  You have to be strong and use common sense.  The adage "if it sounds too good to be true ..." applies in the electronic age more than any other time.  If an email is out of character for someone you know, question it, they should know that something has happened to their email.  Delete suspicious or unknown emails with attachments, it only takes a milisecond to hit the delete key as you go through your daily email.  Be sure to empty deleted items from time to time.

The end of the year is a good time to do some email filing. For example, select all those messages in your inbox from January 2010 to August 2010 and move them to a subfolder within Outlook, Entourage or OWA.  This could speed up your email retrieval and actually make it easier to find that one email that will answer all your project questions. Did you know that the search in Outlook, Entourage and OWA is quite robust and will allow you to search in all your email folders at one time?

Club Sports

MIT Triathlon has wrapped up a great season.  Their recent outing in the Max Performance race series gave them a first place finish.  In the Northeast College Triathlon Conference(NECTC) three women placed in the top 15 while the MIT team placed fifth in the all-Northeastern conference.
    

Katie Quinn places 1st out of 145 women competitors

MIT Cycling had another championship year.  This is their third year in a row winning the Omnium team award for being best overall at the 2010 Collegiate National Track Championships.

  

 Laura Ralston, Nick Loomis, Zach Labry and Michael Garrett

MIT Graduate Soccer Club earned a spot in the 2010 Cup Final of the Bay State Soccer League, against Mass Premier Soccer. The squad hoped to repeat it's last cup victory, which happened in 2007 and was also against Mass Premier. This time around MIT entered halftime down 1-0, but was outmatched in the second half to lose 7-0.

Graduate Soccer Club vs. Cambridge Arsenal in June

Physical Education

Physical Education wrapped up a very busy and successful fall term.

Physical Education Class backpacking at Mt Tom