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2024-25 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

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Emily Ball

  • Height 5-7
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Des Moines, Iowa
  • High School Dowling Catholic
  • Event Throws
  • Major Chemistry

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS)


Accolades (Indoor): 
  • NCAA Qualifier - Shot Put (2023-24) 

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - Shot Put, Weight Throw (2023-24)

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - Shot Put (2025)

  • USTFCCCA All-America First Team - Shot Put (2025)

Accolades (outdoor):

  • NEWMAC Champion - Discus, Hammer, Javelin (2023-24)

  • NEWMAC Champion - Discus, Shot Put (2025)

  • NEWMAC All-Conference First Team - Discus, Hammer, Javelin (2023-24) 

  • NEWMAC First Team All-Conference - Discus, Shot Put (2025)

  • NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team - Shot Put (2023-24) 

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - Shot Put, Discus, Hammer Throw, Javelin (2023-24)

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - Shot Put; Discus; Hammer Throw (2025)

  • USTFCCCA First Team All-America - Discus (2025) 

  • NCAA Qualifier - Discus, Javelin (2023-24) 

  • All-America First Team - Discus (2023-24)

  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team

  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2025)

Accolades: 

  • NEWMAC Field Athlete of the Year (2023-24)  

  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2023-24) 

  • USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (2023-24)

2024-25:

  • Competed in 21 meets this indoor and outdoor track season 

  • Threw a career best in the shot put at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, throwing a 14.19m, placing 6th

2023-24: 

  • Competed in 20 meets  

  • Finished seventh in the discus and 18th in the javelin at the NCAA Outdoor National Championship 

  • Placed second in the discus and hammer throw at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship  

  • Won the discus, hammer, and javelin throw at the NEWMAC Championship  

  • Placed 19th in the shot put at the NCAA Indoor National Championship 

  • Finished second in the weight throw at the New England D3 Indoor Championship 

2022-23:

  • Competed in 18 meets  

  • Placed seventh in the discuss at the NCAA Outdoor National Championship 

  • Finished sixth in the discus at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championship 

  • Placed second in the discus and third in the hammer throw at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship  

  • Won the discus and javelin throw at the NEWMAC Championship 

  • Placed fourth in the weight throw at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

2021-22:

  • Competed in 17 meets

  • Finished third in the hammer throw at the NEWMAC Championship

  • Placed third in the discus at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship

Before MIT:

  • First place in discus at the USATF 2019 IA State Meet

  • No. 23 high school discus thrower nationally in the 2020 season

  • Third place in discus in Class 4A at the 2021 IA State Meet

  • Fifth place in discus at the 2021 HS Drake Relays

  • PR of 145 feet, 11 inches in the discus

  • Three-time varsity letter winner

  • Also played softball and volleyball

  • Class valedictorian

  • Member of the National Honor Society

  • National Merit Scholarship Finalist

  • Mock Trial Club Member and Team Co President

  • Member of the Band and Choir

  • Math Club Co-President as a Junior and Senior

  • Student Ambassador

  • 2021 Governor's Scholar Award

  • Presidential Honor Roll all semesters

  • Seal of Biliteracy

Personal:

  • Majoring in chemistry with a concentration in music

  • Research: Organic Chemistry selective catalysis in the Wendlandt laboratory

  • Music Director for Centrifugues A Capella

  • Burton-Conner MedLinks Residential Director

  • MIT Concert Choir Member

  • First Year Associate Advisor

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:

  • “Throokies (thrower cookies) before meet days. Fun team bonding and competition fuel.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    Throws
    5'7"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Throws
    5'7"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Throws
    5'7"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Throws
    5'7"