Happy Beaver Invitational 2024

Cambridge, MA
Hosted by MIT Club

Meet Information

3rd Annual MIT Happy Beaver Invitational

Date: Sunday, April 7, 2024

Time: Events begin at 10 am. Teams may arrive no earlier than 9 am.

Results from Last Year here

This year's results here

Registration: Please submit all entries via MileSplit. 

  • Registration Opens: 10:00 pm, Wednesday, February 14th
  • Registration Closes: 11:59 pm, Thursday, April 4th

Entry Fees:

  • $20/athlete for all athletes who register before deadline (no cap for teams) 

Race day registration will be available for $30 until the start of the meet or one hour before the desired event, whichever is earlier.

Max 4 events per athlete. 

Payment: Please pay through MileSplit UNLESS registering day of. If there are any problems, please contact mitrc-exec@mit.edu.

Alternative Payment Methods: 

Venmo the entry fees @paigeyeung (pcy@mit.edu)

Write a check made out to MIT Running Club and pay at the meet

Tentative Order of Events: The order of events is (with women's events preceding men's):

3,200-meter relay (4 800-meter relay)

5,000-meter run

Womens 100-meter hurdles and mens 110-meter hurdles

100-meter dash prelim

Mile run

100-meter dash final

1600m Racewalk (unofficial)

400-meter dash

3200-meter run

300-meter hurdles

200-meter dash

800-meter run

Wheelbarrow relay (4 x 25-meter relay)

400-meter relay (4 100-meter relay)

1,600-meter relay (4 400-meter relay)

Spectator Admission: Free

Check-in: You may check in with the clerk up to 60 minutes before your event. Please check in no later than 20 minutes before your scheduled event time, or you will be scratched. We will run up to 5 minutes ahead of the listed schedule. We will release a schedule after registration closes. 

Heat Sheets: Heat sheets will be posted in the facility and emailed out to participants after registration closes. 

Restrooms/Locker Rooms: There will be restrooms next to the track as well as inside the Z-center. Anyone not racing immediately should use restrooms inside the Z-center.

Parking: Parking is available in the Westgate Parking Lot, 282 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139 (6 min walk to the track). Each team will get 1 free reserved parking spot if arriving before 10 am. Please collect a parking ticket from Westgate and bring it to the check-in table for instructions for having it validated. Additional parking is available in Albany Street Garage, 20 Albany Street, Cambridge MA 02139. See this document for more parking details.

Awards: At clerk table: Trophies to first place men's and women's team.

Accessibility: The facility is ADA accessible. Call or email ahead for ground-level entrance.

Contact: mitrc-exec@mit.edu, 2406869841 (Bryant Ndongmo), 4082562003 (Paige Yeung)