Evan Balizado enters his first year as Illinois Tech's assistant cross country/track & field coach in 2023
Balizado, a Chandler, Arizona native, and came to Illinois Tech in 2018 as a student-athlete, completing his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and M.S in Biomedical Data Science in May 2023. He was a member of the Cross Country and Track Programs for all 5 years and was an 8x NACC All-Conference Selection (1 XC, 7 Track). Balizado broke 4 school records and currently hold the 800m school record and co-holds the 4x400m school record. He was a Captain for 2 years and was on the Dean's List 3x. Additionally, Balizado created the Track and Field and Cross Country Record Books in 2018. At IIT he served on the Executive board of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee learning to be a voice for the athletes at IIT.
Additionally he served on the Executive Board of the Biomedical Engineering Society and his Senior Design Project won first place in Biomedical Engineering, creating an affordable hearing screening test for underprivileged communities. Balizado completed two internships at IIT with the most recent at Becton Dickinson doing new product development in their surgery division.
