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2022 MIT Women's Soccer Roster

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24 Karenna Groff

  • Position F
  • Height 5-4
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Weston
  • Hometown Weston, Mass.
  • Major Biological Engineering

Biography

Career Highs
Goals 4 vs. Worcester State (October 1, 2019)
Assists 3 at Mount Holyoke (October 10, 2018)
Points 8 vs. Worcester State (October 1, 2019)
Shots 10 Three times - Most recently vs. Coast Guard (October 22, 2022)

In the Record Books (At the Conclusion of Career):
- Second fastest hat trick in DIII History (51 seconds vs. Worcester St., 9/4/2018)
- Tied for program record for goals in a game (4 vs Worcester State, 10/1/2019)
- Ranks second in career goals (50)
- Ranks second in career points (128)
- Fourth in career assists (28)
- Tied for fourth most goals in a season (17 in 2019)
- Tied for fifth for points in a season (41 in 2019)


Accolades:
- 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year
- NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist (2022)
- Nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award (2021)
- NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week (10/4/21,10/28/19, 9/7/22)
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Year (2021)
- NEWMAC First Team All-Conference (2022, 2021, 2019)
- NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team (2018)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) 
- NEWMAC Tournament MOP (2021)
- NEWMAC Female Student-Athlete of the Year (2021)
- NEWMAC 25th Anniversary Team Member
- Division III Commissioner's Association Student-Athlete of the Year (2021)
- CoSIDA Academic All-District (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
- CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American (2021)
- CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-America (2022, 2020)
- United Soccer Coaches First Team All-Region (2022, 2021)
- United Soccer Coaches Second Team Scholar All-Region (2022)
- United Soccer Coaches Third Team Scholar All-American (2022)
- United Soccer Coaches First Team Scholar All-American (2021)
United Soccer Coaches All-New England First Team (2019)
- Second Team All-American (2021)
- Third Team All-American (2022)
- New England Women's Intercollegiate Soccer Association's (NEWISA) Senior Bowl (2021)
- NEWISA All-New England First-Team (2022,2021, 2019)
- NEWISA All-Region (2018)


2022:
- Team Captain
- Led the team in assists
- Finished second in goals and points
- Appeared in 23 matches
- Scored three game-winning goals


2021: 
- Team Captain
- Made 23 starts while appearing in 24 matches
- Finished second on the team in goals (11), assists (8) and points (30)
- Tallied two goals and two assists on October 2 against Wheaton


2020:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19


2019: 
- Registered a career high 17 goals and seven assists for 41 points
- Led MIT and NEWMAC in goals and points, ranked second in assists
- Tied single match program record with four goals against Worcester State on October 1
- Scored at least one goal in eight of ten matches from September 28 - October 26
- Helped MIT lead NCAA Division III as a team in goals against average (.162), save percentage (.941) and shutout percentage (.833)
- Offensively as a team ranked in the top ten nationally in goals, shots on goal per game, points, shots per game and assists
- Helped MIT break ten team records and to its third straight NEWMAC title
- Led MIT to its highest ranking in program history at No. 5 in the United Soccer Coaches D3 National Poll


2018: 
- Posted 13 goals and five assists for 31 points
- Ranked first in points, second in goals, fourth in assists on the team
- Her first career goal came in her first collegiate game, a 1-1 tie against Carleton on August 31
- Posted her first collegiate hat trick which came in a span of 51-seconds, the second fastest hat trick in Division III women's soccer history
- Notched her first collegiate assist on September 18 at Salem State
- Was part of a team that won its second straight NEWMAC Championship


Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in biological engineering
- Taught in Vilanova, Spain through Global Teaching Labs
- Translational epilepsy research in the Sahin Lab at Boston Children's Hospital
- Public health research on the impact of COVID-19 in slums through MIT SIS in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- Maternal mortality reduction research for WONDER Women's Health & Wellness
-  Bioengineering research creating a cheap, at-home anemia diagnostic
- Completed dopamine sensing research in the Graybiel Lab in McGovern Institute for Brain Research
- EMT for MIT EMS
- Camp Kesem Counselor
- GlobeMed
- Colleges Against Cancer
- Director of Community Service for Alpha Phi
- Gold medalist at 2019 Maccabiah Games
- Research assistant in Sahin Laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital
- Research assistant for Prof. Ceasar McDowell in the MIT Department of Urban Planning and Studies (investigate the impact of COVID-19 in slums in India, Argentina, and Sierra Leone.
- MIT Community Service Fund COVID-19 Grant Recipient
- Co-founder of openPPE, an open-source relief effort to address the global PPE shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Co-President of Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
- Course Developer and Instructor for online edX course (11.S952x) entitled ‘COVID-19 in Slums and Informal Settlements: Guidelines and Responses’ which has been taken by over 1000 learners
- Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
Scholarships:
- 2022: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, American Association of University Women Selected Professions Fellowship (Deferred), MIT Peter J. Eloranta Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Grant, Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
- 2021: MITx Modules Grant, AESOP YA Annual Conference Best Paper Designation 
- 2020: American Academy of Neurology “Neuroscience is Rewarding” Fellowship, MITx Modules Grant, MIT Community Service Fund COVID-19 Grant 


High School:
- A 2018 graduate of Weston High School
- Four-time varsity letterwinner in soccer and basketball
- Four-time Dual County League All-Star in soccer and three-time Dual County League All-Star in basketball
- Two-time Soccer Eastern Mass. All-Star …
- Two-time Soccer All-State
- Soccer League MVP
- Selected to compete for the USA Juniors Soccer Team for the 20th World Maccabiah Games where she won the gold medal in 2017
- Two-time soccer captain
- Basketball 2016 Best Offensive Player Award
- 2016 Basketball Unsung Hero Award
- 2018 Basketball Wildcat Hustle Award
- Boston Herald’s “Basketball Player to Watch"
- 2017-18 basketball captain
- Weston High School Senior Athletic Award winner
- Weston Town Crier Athlete of the Year in 2018
- Theodor Chandler Memorial Award
- Four-time Dual County League Champion
- Racked up 48 goals and 34 assists in soccer during her high school career
- Selected for the GPS FC Bayern 2000 National Team
- 2017 State Cup Champions
- 2017 National Premier League Champions
- National Honor Society
- Was a Research Assistant in Dr. Golby's Lab for Surgical Brain Mapping
- Intern in Graybiel Lab at McGovern Institute for Brain Research
- Team Captain for Relay for Life (American Cancer Society Fundraiser)
- Coach for Weston Youth Soccer
- National AP Scholar
- National Merit Commended Scholar
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- University of Pennsylvania Book Award


Favorite Sports Memory:
- My favorite sports memory was beating Springfield in the NEWMAC Championship in 2021 with a packed Steinbrenner Stadium there to watch. It was an amazing feeling to achieve a major season goal on our home field alongside my favorite people


Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- My favorite moment as an MIT student-athlete was finally meeting our new players in person after our 2020 season was cancelled due to the pandemic. Arriving back on campus for preseason and seeing my overwhelming excitement matched by each and every player on our team reminded me of why I love MIT women's soccer so much. I am incredibly lucky to play with such a wonderful and inspiring group of women. 


Club:
- Global Premier Soccer NPL 

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 21

    2018First Year

    M
    5'4"
    21
  • 24

    2019Sophomore

    F
    5'4"
    24
  • 24

    2020Junior

    F/M
    5'4"
    24
  • 24

    2021Senior

    F
    5'4"
    24
  • 24
    C

    2022Graduate Student

    F
    5'4"
    24
    C