Sports and fitness

Senior wins national gold medal in tae kwon do

November 28, 2001

Women should lift weights to gain muscle, fitness expert says

November 14, 2001

Miriam Nelson to give talk on how strong women live well

October 31, 2001

Athletics department seeks input on strategic plan

October 24, 2001

MIT grad chases Silicon Valley dreams in baseball business

July 18, 2001

MIT grad chases low-tech Silicon Valley dreams -- in the baseball business

July 11, 2001

Jennifer Harris Trosper during her senior year at MIT

1989 volleyball captain is first MIT student-athlete to enter Academic All-America Hall of Fame

June 24, 2001

Karen Klincewicz (now Karen Gleason), center, stands ready to go in this photo of a swim meet taken from the 1980 Technique. She always wore her hair in a vertical ponytail like this when she swam. "It was funny. You know how your hair sticks together when you swim," she said.

Professor's swim record broken after 20 years

May 9, 2001

Roger Hu running in his first Boston Marathon. He was photographed by his brother Stanley, a veteran of several marathons.

Who's Hu at the Boston Marathon

April 25, 2001

Professor Candace Royer, recently named as the new head of athletics.

Royer named MIT athletics director

First woman in Ivy League Plus group

January 25, 2001

Royer chosen as athletics director

January 24, 2001

Seniors Cristina Estrada and Craig Heffernan play center for the MIT basketball teams.

Centers get early-season spotlight

December 13, 2000

Albert L. Zesiger (SB 1951) and Barrie R. Zesiger, an MIT Corporation member and co-founder of Zesiger Capital Group, expressed delight at last week's groundbreaking ceremony that their pledge of $20 million would help build the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center.

Sports center breaks ground; to be named after Zesigers

November 1, 2000

Two hundred tons of steel and cement, twice the weight to be carried by the columns of the Sports and Fitness Center, were used in this load test of the first footing for the new center, which will be on the filled land of the MIT campus. Engineers found sand 20 feet down and hollowed out a bulb for the pressure-injected footing for the column of cement to stand on.

MIT Sports and Fitness Center groundbreaking planned for Friday

October 25, 2000

Alumni did well in stiff competition at rowing regatta