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2025-26 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

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Katie Kempff

  • Height 5-8
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown St. Charles, Ill.
  • High School St. Charles East
  • Event Jumps, Hurdles
  • Major Aerospace Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Career Statistics (TFRRS)


Accolades (Indoor): 

  • USTFCCCA All-Region - Pentathlon (2022-23); High Jump (2022-23, 2023-24)

Accolades (outdoor):

  • All-New England D3 - High Jump (2022-23)

  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team (2025)

Accolades: 

  • USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete (2022-23) 

2024-25:

  • Competed in 17 meets this indoor and outdoor track season 

  • Acchieved career bests in the Long Jump and Triple Jump.

2023-24: 

  • Competed in 17 meets 

  • Finished 11th in the high jump at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 

  • Placed third in the high jump and seventh in the 100m Hurdles at the NEWMAC Championship 

  • Finished seventh in the high jump at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

2022-23: 

  • Competed in fifteen meets 

  • Finished 13th in the high jump at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championship 

  • Placed fifth in the high jump at the New England D3 Outdoor Championship 

  • Finished third in the high jump at the NEWMAC Championship 

  • Placed tenth in the high jump at the New England D3 Indoor Championship

Before MIT:

  • All-State and All-Conference

  • Academic All-Conference

  • High School Female Athlete of the Year

  • Sectional Champion and State Final Qualifier

  • Four-year varsity letter winner in both track and field and diving

  • USATF Junior Olympic Qualifier - Heptathlon 

  • Member of the National Honor Society

  • President of the Social Studies National Honor Society

  • Vice-President of the Science National Honor Society

  • Member of the English National Honor Society

  • School Newspaper - Editor-in-Chief 

  • Speed Team - Captain 

  • Peer Leadership - Peer Leadership Advisor 

  • Code Club 

  • Illinois State Senate Youth Advisory Committee

  • Kijana Educational Initiative - Youth Leadership Team 

  • Illinois State Scholar,

  • Illinois Spanish Seal of Biliteracy Award

  • AP Capstone Diploma

  • AP Scholar with Distinction Award

  • AP Scholar with Honor Award

  • English Department Award

  • Human Relations Award

Personal:

  • Majoring in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Spanish

  • Software Engineering Intern at Aerobotics (Cape Town, South Africa)

  • Research into the environmental impact of carbon sequestration monitoring satellite network for the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC)

  • NROTC

  • Little Beavers Running Club

  • Member of Alpha Phi sorority

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:

  • “When my teammates came to support me running a pentathlon at Tufts, even though I was the only one competing”

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    Jumps, Hurdles
    5'10"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Jumps, Hurdles
    5'8"
  • 2024-25Junior

    Jumps, Hurdles
    5'8"
  • C

    2025-26Senior

    Jumps, Hurdles
    5'8"
    C