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FOOTBALL
MARK WRIGHT ‘21 BRIAN BUBNA
CHRIS MAUCK ‘20
In a wild regular-season finale in 2019, the
MIT football team captured the program’s
second-straight NEWMAC Championship with
a 43-40 road win at Springfield College. A lastsecond
field goal from Mark Wright ‘21 gave the
Engineers the win and the league’s automatic
bid in the NCAA Tournament. (FULL STORY)
GAME-WINNING TD VS. WPI!
“The reason I chose MIT was to surround myself with thousands of collaborative
students and a brotherhood of a hundred teammates and coaches who have the
drive and passion to excel in all aspects of their lives--and who just love to have fun
while doing so.” - Dennis Gastel ‘22
The National Football Foundation & College
Hall of Fame (NFF) recognized 17 MIT studentathletes
with spots in the 2020 NFF Hampshire
Honor Society. MIT was one of just 17 schools
nationally at all levels to have 10 or more
honorees. (FULL STORY)
At the conclusion of the 2019
season, 15 members of the MIT
football program were named
to the NEWMAC All-Conference
Teams. In addition to Coach
Bubna earning Coach of the
Year honors, MIT also had nine
First Team selections and six
players named to the Second
Team. (FULL STORY)
The Engineers ended the regular season in
a tie with WPI for the league championship,
but earned the automatic qualifier due to a
double-overtime home win over WPI to defeat
the Worcester Engineers for the first time since
1900. Watch the ending and the postgame
interviews here! (VIDEO)
Seven Engineers were named as CoSIDA
Academic All-District performers, while
Andrew Griese ‘20 and Sean Kent ‘20 both
earned Academic All-America accolades.
Griese was named to the First Team and
Kent earned a spot on the Second Team. AJ
Iversen ‘20, Kent and Will Roberts ‘20 were
all two-time Academic All-District performers
and four Engineers were recognized for the
first time in their careers. (FULL STORY)
“Being a student-athlete at MIT is the best
decision I’ve ever made in my life. Not only
are you around some of the smartest and
most driven students in the country, but
you also are competing for championships
every year. It’s amazing how the athletic
department and coaches all prioritize
winning and being first-class programs while
also understanding the rigors that go into the
education here. Aside from that, I’ve met some
of my lifelong friends through sports at MIT.”
- Keithen Shepard ‘21
Brian Bubna enters his third season as the head coach of the MIT football team in 2020. In his
first two seasons at the helm, Bubna has twice been named as the NEWMAC Coach of the Year
after leading the Engineers to back-to-back NEWMAC Championships and NCAA Tournament
berths. (FULL BIO)