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2023 MIT Women's Soccer Roster

Gil Talbot
(c) Burt Granofsky/MIT
Robert Krawitz

21 Kaitlin Zareno

  • Position F
  • Height 5-2
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Westridge
  • Hometown Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Major Computation and Cognition

Biography

Career Highs
Goals 2 vs. IIT (September 9, 2023)
Assists 1 Nine Times - Most Recently at Williams (October 8, 2023)
Points 4 vs. IIT (September 9, 2023)
Shots 4 at Clark (September 18, 2021)

Accolades: 
- NEWMAC Offensive Athlete of the Week (Sept. 10, 2023) 
- NEWISA Senior Bowl Selection (2023) 
- NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team (2023) 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 20, 2021)

2023: 
- Appeared in 22 games making 18 starts 
- Recorded 17 shots, six goals and one assist for 13 points 
- Tied for fourth on the team in goals (6) 
- Helped the MIT offense lead the NEWMAC in goals scored (75)

2022:
- Played in 10 matches with five starts
- Recorded eight shots 
- Helped the MIT offense lead the NEWMAC in goals scored

2021:
- Played in 13 games making 12 starts
- Tallied four goals and five assists for 13 points
- Scored the game-winning goal against Babson on October 6
- Helped MIT win a program-best 22 games during the season

2020:
- Season Canceled Due to Covid-19

2019:
- Appeared in 15 matches as a first-year
- Registered one goal and one assist for three points
- Posted first collegiate goal and point in 4-0 win at Babson on October 22
- Notched first collegiate assist in 10-0 win at Bridgewater State on September 7
- 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

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Watching the 2018 World Cup semifinals in France

Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Stepping onto the field for my first game back after a season-ending injury in 2021

Off the Field at MIT:
- Majoring in computation and cognition
- ML/AI internship at Second Spectrum
- MEng Research with Tadesse Lab creating accessible healthcare diagnostics
- UROP with Media Lab Personal Robots Group (PRG) researching novel approaches to policy shaping for reinforcement learning agents
- Thread Gordon Engineering Leadership Program
- Alpha Chi Omega VP Public Relations and Marketing
- NEET Autonomous Machines Thread
- Society of Women
- MIT Eta Kappa Nu

High School:
- A 2019 graduate of the Westridge School
- Valedictorian
- Four-time varsity soccer letterwinner
- 2018-19 All-CIF Southern Section selection
- Two-time Captain
- Offensive Player Award
- 2018 Olympic Development Program (ODP) West Region Champions
- 2017-18 Southern California Developmental Soccer League (SCDSL) Flight 1: Champions Division winners
- 2016-17 California Regional League top 4 scoring leaders
- 2014-16 US Soccer Training Centers participant
- US Club Soccer Id2
- Also ran track and competed in the 100-meters and 4x100 relay
- Cum Laude Society
- NJCL Lation Honor Society
- Co-head of Math Club
- Co-head of Science Club
- Robotics and software development squad captain
- Head of Camp Curie: Embrace Curie-osity which is a science camp created to empower female students from socioeconomically diverse backgrounds to pursue STEM
- Math Department Award
- Science Department Award
- Academic Athlete of the Year Award
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- National Merit Finalist

Club:
- Crescenta Valley Soccer Club
- Leading goal scorer and leader in assists

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 21

    2019First Year

    F
    5'2"
    21
  • 21

    2020Sophomore

    F
    5'3"
    21
  • 21

    2021Junior

    F
    5'2"
    21
  • 21

    2022Senior

    F
    5'2"
    21
  • 21

    2023Graduate Student

    F
    5'2"
    21