Each year at their national convention, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) recognizes National and Regional Coaching Staffs of the Year. This year’s convention was held in New Orleans from December 7 to 11, and was a special one for the MIT softball coaching staff of 2016.
The MIT Physical Education Program’s Health and Wellness courses offer a unique student experience through hybrid coursework: half of the course is instructional physical activity, and the other half is discussion-based.
The stands were filled with cheering fans. Music pulsed through the warm early fall breeze. On this particular Saturday, September 17, 2016, everyone was ready for some football.
You don’t have to spend much time with Coach Anderson before you hear him mention ‘the championship approach,” a simple phrase to describe holding yourself to the highest possible standard in all facets of life.
Alex Knoedler ’18 is pursuing his passion for flying as an AeroAstro student and a Squadron Cadet Commander in the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC), striving to fly fighter jets as a combat or test pilot and ultimately taking this experience to the astronaut corps at NASA.
While coasting in a boat in the middle of the Charles River, it is easy to see the appeal of escaping the demands of MIT to sail between the cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge.
Sasha Soane is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department. With no prior ice hockey experience, he signed up for the physical education course and fell in love. “I wanted a challenge,” said Soane.
