Swimming

Coach: Dawn Gerken

Season: November-February

The men’s and women’s teams each have 30 members. They compete
against NEWMAC schools, so stay primarily in New England except when
they travel to national competitions.

2002-2003 triumphs

 The men’s team finished last season with a 9-1 record, its best mark ever en
route to the club’s second consecutive NEWMAC title.
 The women’s team assembled its best record (8-3) ever.
 Five swimmers were invited to compete in the NCAA Division III
Championships, and 13 swimmers qualified for the national championships,
with five earning All-America honors.
 The squads also established five new MIT records.
 Nicholas Sidelnick, who was the 400 individual medley champion at the
NEWMAC Championships, made national news after swimming the English
Channel in August. (In the individual medley, a swimmer follows an order of
all strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. There are three
different classifications—the 100, 200 and 400.)

Other notable accomplishments

 Yvonne Grierson ’90 is the only person ever to be twice named the New
England Division III Woman Athlete of the Year. She also won the 1990
Honda Award as the finest women’s Division III athlete in the nation, an honor
bestowed annually by the American Honda Motor Company for superior
athletic skills, leadership abilities, academic excellence and dedication to
community service.
 Two members of the Class of 2007 on this year’s team achieved NCAA
consideration times in high school. [still awaiting an explanation]
Tennis

Men’s Coach: Jeff Hamilton

Women’s Coach: Carol Matsuzaki
Sports Season: September-October; March-May

Twelve students compete on the men’s team; 13 on the women’s team.

The men’s team competes primarily with New England teams, but its geographical
reach expands when it competes in national championships, and when it travels for
spring training. For two of the last three years, it has qualified for the Intercollegiate
Tennis Association (ITA) Minnesota Court Classic, the national team indoor
championships played in Minneapolis.

The women’s team competes again Wellesley, Clark WPI, Wheaton, Babson,
Smith, Mount Holyoke, Springfield, Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, Vassar, Trinity, Brandeis
and Tufts.

2002-2003 triumphs

 MIT won its fifth straight NEWMAC championship, while carrying two of the
top five ranked singles players in the nation.
 Vitaly Pereverzev ’04 competed for the national title before being eliminated in
the semifinals.
 Evan Tindell ’06 was named National Rookie of the Year after a freshman
campaign that included a New England Division III championship and a No.1
ranking in the Northeast Region.
 The women’s team earned the best win-loss record in the history of the
program (11-1), topping the 10-1 record turned in by the 1984 squad.
 Caroline Tien ’04 won the No. 2 flight at the New England Championships.
She also qualified for the semifinals of the Northeast Region ITA
Championships.

Other notable accomplishments

 Men’s tennis has appeared in four straight NCAA Championships, and in eight
of the last 12.
 During that time, MIT has produced 12 All-Americas, a national championship
doubles team, a New England Division III Championship, and numerous top
10 national rankings.
 In 2002, Jeff Hamilton was named NEWMAC Coach of the Year for the fourth
straight season. In 2000, he was named the NCAA Coach of the Year.
 This season, Evan Tindell ’06 won the ITA’s national singles championship.
He is ranked as the top singles player in the nation.
 The Lady Engineers have won four straight NEWMAC Championships, led by
three-time conference Coach of the Year, Carol Matsuzak
 Throughout the program’s history, many players have qualified individually for
the national championships with an 11th-place position in the 1993 national
rankings serving as the team’s marquee feat.
Basketball

Men’s Coach: Larry Anderson

Women’s coach: Kristi Staub
Season: November-February

The men’s team has 13 members; the women’s team has 14.

2002-2003 triumphs

Women

 With a 14-11 overall record, women’s basketball had its best season ever,
closing at second place in NEWMAC.
 Melissa Hart, who coached the team from 1998 until Kristi Staub succeeded
her this season, was named 2003 NEWMAC Coach of the Year. She is the
first MIT basketball coach to receive this honor. (Hart, who also coached
women’s soccer, earned the NEWMAC soccer coach of the year award in
2001.)
 Crystal Russell ’03 was named 2003 NEWMAC player of the year.

Men

 With a 16-10 record, and a 9-2 home court record, the team qualified for the
ECAC Championship series for the first time in its history.
 It was ranked 11th in the nation in scoring defense and 16th in field goal
percentage.
 Captain Kyle Doherty ’04 was named to the NEWMAC All-Conference Team
for the second year in a row.
 Neal Brenner, Andrew Tasi and Danny Kanamori earned NEWMAC All-
Academic honors.

Both teams competed in the annual Lopata Classic

at Washington University in St. Louis.