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2025-26 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

Katherine Pagorek

  • Height 5-5
  • Year First Year
  • Hometown Apex, N.C.
  • High School Cardinal Gibbons
  • Event Distance
  • Major Mechanical and Ocean Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS)


2025-26:

  • Two top 5 finishes
  • Personal best of 5:40.80 in the Mile at the Beantown Challenge
  • Personal best of 10:46.24 in the 3000m at the Harvard Invitational
  • Personal best of 11:41.36 in the 3000m Steeplechase at the UConn Dog Fight, where she placed first
  • Personal best of 18:25.85 in the 5000m at the 2026 New England Division III Indoor Championship

Before MIT:

  • Varsity letter-winner in cross country and track and field
  • Team MVP
  • Crusader Award
  • Academic-Athletic Award
  • 2-Time NCHSAA Team Cross Country State Champions
  • NXR Southeast Team Champions
  • NC #15 All-Time 2000m Steeplechase
  • Peer Tutor
  • Quiz Bowl varsity member
  • community volunteering
  • Apostello
  • All-A Honor Roll
  • AP Scholar with Distinction
Personal: 
  • Favorite Sports Memory: Going to NXN during senior year cross country season