Leah Schmitz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2015-16 MIT Women's Track and Field Roster

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Height 5-5
Year Senior
Hometown Madison, Wis.
High School Robert M. La Follette
Event Pole Vault
Major Chemical Engineering

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Collegiate Personal Bests
Indoor:
PV - 10', 6" (3.20m)

Outdoor:
PV - 10', 2" (3.10m)

2015-16: NEWMAC Academic All-Conference ... competed in eight indoor meets ... registered a season-best jump of 10', 6" (3.20m) for 13th at the Gordon Kelly Invitational (2/13) ... finished 21st clearing 9', 6.25" (2.90m) at the New England Division III Indoor Championship (2/19-20) ... competed in seven outdoor meets ... finished 10th in the pole vault clearing 10' (3.05m) at the New England Division III Outdoor Championship (5/5-7) ... with her sixth place finish and height of 10', 2" (3.10m), she set a season-best at the Yale Multi Team Invite (4/2).

2014-15: NEWMAC Academic All-Conference ... competed in six indoor meets ... registered a season-best height in the pole vault of 9', 6.25" (2.90m) for 14th place at the Tufts Stampede (1/30-31) ... best placement of seventh came at the Art Farnham Invitational (1/24) at 9', 0.5" (2.76m) ... competed in four outdoor meets ... placed 18th (9'9" - 2.97m) at the New England Division III Outdoor Championship (4/20-5/2) ... season-best height of 10' (3.05m) for eighth place at the Colby Invitational (4/11-12).

2013-14: NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … (Outdoor): competed in the pole vault … finished 12th at the Sean Collier Invitational (4/19) and eighth at Bates (4/12) by clearing 8-06.25 … (Indoor): consistently cleared a season best 9-00.25 at four contests … finished 15th at the Gordon Kelly Invitational (2/8) … claimed 13th at the Tufts Stampede Invite (2/1) … placed 7th at the Art Farnham Invitational (1/25) … and took eighth at Bates (1/11).

2012-13: Did not compete as a freshman.

Off the Track: Majoring in chemical engineering … minoring in energy studies … worked as a Formulation Intern at Covaris Inc. … conducted a UROP at the Hamel Lab studying novel bioreactors … worked at the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics … AAUW Wisconsin local scholarship … Secular Society of MIT … dance troupe ... Burton Second Floor Chair.

High School: A 2012 graduate of Robert M. La Follette High School … Madison city champion in 2012 … was also part of the swimming, cross country and dance teams … National Honor Society … third place in the state TrigStar competition.