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Louise van den Heuvel is a twotime All-American in indoor track and field, earning both distinctions as a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s distance medley relay team. She currently holds the MIT school record in the indoor mile. She is a member of the MIT Student-Athlete Advisory Committee executive committee and treasurer of the MIT chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

School: MIT
Year: 2014
Major: Mechanical Engineering

A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics
American sport has always served as a platform for resistance and has been measured and critiqued by how it responds in critical moments of racial and social crises.
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A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics