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2023 MIT Field Hockey Roster

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13 Liberty Ladd

  • Position F
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Falmouth (Maine)
  • Hometown Cornelia, Ga.
  • Major Political Science

Biography

Career Highs
Goals 3 Four Times – Most Recently vs. WPI (Nov. 2, 2023)
Assists 2 vs. Clark (Oct. 5, 2021)
vs. Roger Williams (Oct. 25, 2023)
Points 7 Four Times – Most Recently vs. WPI (Nov. 2, 2023)

Accolades:
- 2023 NFHCA Senior Team  
- NFHCA Scholar of Distinction (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- NFHCA National Academic Squad (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-America At-Large First Team (2023) 
- College Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-District Team (2023) 
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
- NEWMAC All-Conference (First Team – 2021, Second Team – 2022) 
- NFHCA Region I All-Region Second Team (2021, 2022) 
- NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team (2021)

2023: 
- Played in 18 games, started 17 
  Recorded 12 goals, including two game-winners, and four assists for 28 points 
- Scored the game-winning goal in MIT’s 4-1 win over WPI in the semifinals of the NEWMAC Tournament (Nov. 2) 
- Ranked tenth in the NEWMAC in points

2022:
- Played in 17 games, started 15
- Tallied 11 goals, including three game-winners, and one assist for 23 points
- Scored the game-winning goal in MIT’s 1-0 win over WPI in the semifinals of the NEWMAC Tournament (11/3)
- Ranked third in the NEWMAC in goals (11) and fifth in points (23)

2021:
- Played in and started 14 games
- Recorded 11 goals, including three game-winners, and seven assists for 29 points
- Posted three goals and an assist against Gordon (Sept. 1) and Roger Williams (Oct. 13)
- Ranked fourth in the NEWMAC in assists, seventh in goals and points, and eighth in game-winning goals

2020:
- Did not play as the season was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic

2019:
- Played in 11 games, started one
- Only points of the season were a goal against Amherst (Sept. 25)

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Beating Bonny Eagle HS in penalty corners during playoffs in HS

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Scoring the game-winning goal against WPI in the 2022 NEWMAC Semifinals

Off the Field at MIT:
- Pursuing a master’s degree in political science
- Graduated from MIT in 2023 with bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and political science
- Internships: Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project; Office of U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff; U.S. Department of State
- Research: Election Integrity, Political Misinformation, Direct-Write Material Manufacturing
- 2022 Truman Scholar
- MIT Pewter Bowl Award
- MIT Philip A. Trussell Prize
- MIT Field Hockey Most Inspirational
- American Mock Trial Association All-National Attorney and All-Regional Attorney
- Levitch Leadership Lab
- MIT Washington Internship Program student coordinator
- MIT Mock Trial captain
- U.S. Air Force ROTC

High School:
- Was a varsity letterwinner for the field hockey and softball teams at Falmouth High School (Maine)
- Western Maine Conference Class B Honorable Mention, SMAA All-Conference Class A First Team
- Two-time Maine Field Hockey Association All-State Team
- Forecaster Fall Female Athlete of the Year
- SMAA Co-Player of the Year, SMAA All-Conference First Team
- SMAA All-Academic Team, Maine Field Hockey Association All-State All-Academic
- 2018 Miss Maine Field Hockey finalist
- Casco Bay Leadership Conference, Western Maine Conference Student Athlete Leadership Conference representative, SMAA Student Athlete Leadership Conference representative
- Maine Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship
- Alfred H. Stadden Award, Falmouth High School Coaches Award
- Summa Cum Laude
- National Merit Scholarship finalist
- High Honor Roll
- Princeton Book Award, Civic and Social Studies Book Award
- Air Force ROTC Type 1 Technical Scholarship
- Delta Scholarship Fund Award
- Improvisation Club, Robotics, Math Team, Ocean Bowl, Civics Club, student ambassador, Speech and Debate Team, Theatre Company, Student Adventures in Learning (SAiL) Committee, Women’s Rights Advocacy Club
- Math, science, government, and American history tutor
- Maine State Board of Education member
- Environment Maine member
- United States Youth Senate Program alternate
- Falmouth Youth field hockey and soccer volunteer
- Parish of the Holy Eucharist Vacation Bible School volunteer
- American Legion Auxiliary Girls State
- American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation
- Bipartisan Policy Center internship
- Featured student speaker at the 2018 Federal Department of Education’s National Blue Ribbon Award Banquet in Washington D.C.

Club:
- Coastal Field Hockey Club

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 19

    2019First Year

    D
    5'8"
    19
  • 19

    2020Sophomore

    D
    5'8"
    19
  • 13

    2021Junior

    F
    5'9"
    13
  • 13

    2022Senior

    F
    5'9"
    13
  • 13

    2023Graduate Student

    F
    5'9"
    13