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2022-23 MIT Women's Lightweight Crew Roster

Kathleen Love

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Arlington, Va.
  • High School Yorktown

Biography

2022-23:
- Pocock Racing Shells Lightweight All-American
- IRA All-Academic Team
- CRCA Scholar-Athlete
- Competed in all seven regattas, including in three different boats at the Knecht Cup
- Rowed in the stroke seat of the LW4 that defeated Gordon, as well as the LW4 that won gold at the Dad Vail and finished second at the IRA National Championship
- Was in the stroke seat of the Collegiate 2x that placed second at the Head of the Charles

2021-22:
- CRCA Scholar-Athlete
- IRA All-Academic Team
- Competed in nine regattas
- Rowed in the No. 4 seat of the V4 that won the Dad Vail and the IRA National Championship, while also rowing in the No. 3 seat of the V4 that won Head of the Charles

2020-21:
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019-20:
- Competed in two fall regattas before the spring season was cancelled
- Rowed in the No. 2 seat of the V4 that was first at the CRI Classic
- Was in the No. 2 seat of the lightweight 4 that finished second at the Head of the Charles

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Racing in Italy at the Under-23 World Rowing Championships in 2022

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning MIT LWRW's first national title with my teammates at the IRA National Championships 2022

Off the River at MIT:
- Majoring in biological engineering with a concentration in music
- Conducted HIV research in the Shalek Lab at MIT
- Summer intern at JURA Bio
- Member of the MIT Chamber Music Society
- Involved with UA Sustain and Camp Kesem

High School: 
- Rowing with the TBC Racing Club
- Three-time recipient of the Coach's Award
- 2019 Outstanding Rower Award
- 2019 Washington Post All-Met Rowing Honorable Mention
- First place in the women's 18 year old 2000m at the Mid Atlantic Erg Sprints
- First place in the lightweight 8+ at the 2017 Virginia State Championship
- Third place in the lightweight 8+ at the 2017 Stotesbury Cup
- Seven-time overall varsity letter winner
- Member of the National Honor Society
- National Merit Scholarship recipient
- First place at the 2018 Herndon Memorial Science Competition
- First place in the Microbiology category at the 2016 Virginia State Science Fair

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

    5'7"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    5'6"
  • 2021-22Junior

    5'7"
  • C

    2022-23Senior

    5'7"
    C