The CMS-ence of Morgan Blevins

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Senior Morgan Blevins will be competing in her final SCIAC event this weekend, as the CMS Track and Field teams prepare to host the 2019 conference championships on Saturday and Sunday at the Burns Track Complex. As a distance runner, she has put a lot of miles into her training over the years, but her mileage pales in comparison to the astronauts she worked at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston this summer.

An engineering major at Harvey Mudd, Blevins held an internship with the Aerospace Corporation from May through August this past year, which sent her to Houston to do contracting work at the Johnson Space Center. 



"I had a really wonderful time there," Blevins said. "I was in the EVA (ExtraVehicular Activity) Hardware/Space Suit department, so I got to work with a lot of flight hardware, which was a lot of fun, and meet some astronauts. Plus train my summer in the Houston humidity."

On campus, she is the leader of her Harvey Mudd engineering team, which works on cancer cell detection techniques for for City of Hope, a local biomedical research center. Balancing out her serious academic pursuits, she also is a member of the 5C's Without a Box Improv group, regularly performing improv comedy around the five campuses. And, of course, she spends a lot of time in her running shoes training for competition. 

Blevins is part of a women's cross country and track and field senior class that has the chance to go a perfect 8-for-8 winning SCIAC championships over the last four years, by capturing one more title this weekend at home. Blevins actually did not compete for CMS as a freshman, but joined the squad as a sophomore after finding that she missed competing, "I was always so envious when I saw the team run by," she explained. Joining the cross country and track teams has made her collegiate experience even more worthwhile. 

"Being an Athena has been really awesome," she said. "It's meant that I've kind of had a family here on the track, and the trails. It's also connected me with a lot of students at CMC and Scripps, who I wouldn't have otherwise gotten to connect with."

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