# MIT Engineers

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. MIT athletes have won 13 Elite 90 awards, ranking MIT first among NCAA Division III programs and third among all divisions. 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.
| 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 field$^†$ |
| Track and field$^†$ | Volleyball |
| Volleyball | |
| Water polo | |
| Co-ed sports ||
| Fencing – Sailing ||
| † – Track and field 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."
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. 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". The lyric reads:
   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, u 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 | 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". The team has played almost continually since.

## Facilities

* Zesiger sports and fitness center — Squash, Swimming and Diving, Water Polo teams
* Alumni Pool — Swimming and Diving
* Wang Fitness Center — Squash
* Johnson Athletic Center — Fencing, Tennis, Track and Field teams
* duPont's Athletic Center — Basketball, Fencing, Rifle, Volleyball
* J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble — Men and Women's Tennis (indoor)
* duPont Tennis Courts — Men and Women's Tennis (outdoor)
* Rockwell Cage — Basketball and Volleyball
* Henry G. Steinbrenner '27 Stadium — Football, Men's Lacrosse, Soccer, Outdoor Track and Field
* Bob and Eveline Roberts P'10 Field — Lacrosse
* Jack Barry Field — Field Hockey, Women's Lacrosse
* Fran O'Brien Field — Baseball
* Briggs Field — Softball
* Walter C. Wood Sailing Pavilion — Sailings
* Harold W. Pierce Boathouse — Rowing.