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California Institute of Technology

2025 Caltech Track & Field Roster

Thomas MacLean

  • Height 6-0
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Redding, Calif.
  • High School Shasta
  • Events Distance

Biography

Research and STEM Activities

Worked on computation and visualization of invariant manifolds representing space flight trajectories within the planar circular restricted 3-body problem at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (managed by Caltech)... In Summer of 2020 and 2021, led projects directed towards patients in urgent need of appointments...supported medical record database maintenance, formulated medical forms and reports, and created new solutions to optimize stored procedures in order to enhance the efficiency and reliability of the digital systems at a local health care facility...Applied principles of set theory and logic to devise reliable solutions for our health center with the mission of patient service at the forefront.

Prior to Caltech

Academic Honors: National AP Scholar... Shasta Math Society President and team Captain (2018-2021)... Science Bowl A Team (2018-2021)... 2020 Regional Finalist, Physics and Math team lead... Model UN Research award 2020 at Berkeley Model UN for paper proposing marketable business solutions to solve the international gender gap... Shasta High School Student Government (2019-2021) and Student Body Vice President (2020-21)... Key Club Active Member (2018-2021).

Athletic Honors: USMC Distinguished Athlete 2021... CK Stevens Award 2021... Russell DeForest Award 2021... 4 Years varsity cross country... SHS Cross Country Captain... 1st place in all 2021 XC races... Shasta County Champion (2020/2021)... 2019 Junior Boys XC All-MileSplitCA Team Honorable Mention... Top junior at Northern Section Finals... Individual CA State Championship qualifier... 1st-Team All-Northern Section and 1st-Team EAL All-League (2019)... 1 year varsity tennis and 3 years varsity track... SHS Track and Field Captain... Placed top 5 in Northern Section of California in the 1600m and 3200m (2021).

Personal

Son of Debbie and Tim... Younger brother to Ashley... Has a blue belt in Kung Fu... Favorite part about Caltech is the research opportunities and connections...Likes being a Caltech athlete because of the supportive community and the ability to grow with a program that is also growing and becoming increasingly competitive.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022First-Year

    Distance
    6'0"
  • 2023Sophomore

    Distance
    6'0"
  • 2024Junior

    Distance
    6'0"
  • 2025Senior

    Distance
    6'0"