Ali Gibbs - 2025 - Women's Volleyball - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2025 MIT Women's Volleyball Roster

Choose a Player:

Ryan Boyles

Max Berkowitz

Kyle Prudhomme

Chris Aduama

Gil Talbot

Career Highs:

Kills: 14 vs. Emerson (Nov. 12, 2024 – NEWMAC Quarterfinal)
Aces: 4 – Three times, last vs. Williams (Oct. 26, 2024)
Digs: 5 vs. Whittier (Sept. 15, 2023) and Smith (Nov. 17, 2024 – NEWMAC Championship)
Blocks: 9 vs. Oglethorpe (Sept. 3, 2022) and Tufts (Oct. 26, 2024)

Accolades:

2024:

2023:

Played in 100 sets, recording 165 kills, 77 blocks, 65 digs, and 39 aces
Ranked seventh in the NEWMAC in hitting percentage (0.319) and ninth in blocks (77)

2022:

Played in 52 sets, recording 96 kills, a .360 hitting percentage, 57 blocks, 18 digs, and 16

Before MIT:

Graduated from Hathaway Brown School
Ohio All-District Second Team, Ohio District 1 Honorable Mention, Ohio District 2 Honorable Mention, OSHAA District 2 First Team
AVCA All-Ohio First Team All-American, AVCA All-Region Team, AVCA Best and Brightest First Team
Three-year captain and varsity letterwinner
Two-time team MVP and received the HB Offensive Specialist Award once
Also played basketball and lacrosse
Cum Laude, Hathaway Brown High Honors
National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholarship regional finalist
Hispanic Scholarship Fund YLI attendee, MIT Mathroots Summer Program
HB Business and Finance Start Up Program (shoe traction device start-up business)
Research at Allegheny Hospital: Neurotization in sensate autologous breast reconstruction
Breast Reconstruction Shadow at West Penn Hospital (Pa.)
Empower Sports Volleyball clinic leader
Get Gritty Cleveland board member
HB Yearbook chief photo editor

Personal:

Research: UROP in Feng Lab studying exploring possible neural networks of Alzheimer’s
Research: MIT Sports Lab – researching the history of aesthetic sports to predict upcoming scoring changes in BMX competitions
Research: MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship group studying the impact of Covid-19 on Opioid Epidemic relief focused startups
Alpha Phi sorority
Favorite Sports Memory: “Competing in the NCAA tournament and making the Elite 8 last year.”

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:

Club:

Why I Chose MIT:

“I chose MIT because it truly provides me the best of everything! MIT allows me to compete alongside a group of driven, empowered, and intellectual women while receiving a world class education. Furthermore, Boston is a center of academia, innovation, and tradition. With a strong focus in STEM, the biomedical companies and hospitals surrounding MIT provide me with cutting-edge research and career opportunities that I have always wanted to pursue. Lastly, I have found the immensely collaborative MIT community to be the perfect culture for me, and I believe there is no better place than MIT to thrive.”