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2025 MIT Women's Volleyball Roster

Ryan Boyles
Max Berkowitz
Kyle Prudhomme
Chris Aduama
Gil Talbot

8 Ali Gibbs

  • Position MH
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • High School Hathaway Brown School
  • Hometown Chagrin Falls, Ohio
  • Major Mathematics and Finance

Biography

Career Highs:
  • Kills: 14 vs. Emerson (Nov. 12, 2024 – NEWMAC Quarterfinal)
  • Aces: 4 – Three times, last vs. Williams (Oct. 26, 2024)
  • Digs: 5 vs. Whittier (Sept. 15, 2023) and Smith (Nov. 17, 2024 – NEWMAC Championship)
  • Blocks: 9 vs. Oglethorpe (Sept. 3, 2022) and Tufts (Oct. 26, 2024)
Accolades:
  • 2024 NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team
2024:
  • Played in 72 sets, recording 169 kills, 60 blocks, 37 digs, and 19 aces
  • Ranked sixth in the NEWMAC in blocks per set (0.83) and ninth in blocks
2023:
  • Played in 100 sets, recording 165 kills, 77 blocks, 65 digs, and 39 aces
  • Ranked seventh in the NEWMAC in hitting percentage (0.319) and ninth in blocks (77)
2022:
  • Played in 52 sets, recording 96 kills, a .360 hitting percentage, 57 blocks, 18 digs, and 16
Before MIT:
  • Graduated from Hathaway Brown School
  • Ohio All-District Second Team, Ohio District 1 Honorable Mention, Ohio District 2 Honorable Mention, OSHAA District 2 First Team
  • AVCA All-Ohio First Team All-American, AVCA All-Region Team, AVCA Best and Brightest First Team
  • Three-year captain and varsity letterwinner
  • Two-time team MVP and received the HB Offensive Specialist Award once
  • Also played basketball and lacrosse
  • Cum Laude, Hathaway Brown High Honors
  • National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
  • Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholarship regional finalist
  • Hispanic Scholarship Fund YLI attendee, MIT Mathroots Summer Program
  • HB Business and Finance Start Up Program (shoe traction device start-up business)
  • Research at Allegheny Hospital: Neurotization in sensate autologous breast reconstruction
  • Breast Reconstruction Shadow at West Penn Hospital (Pa.)
  • Empower Sports Volleyball clinic leader
  • Get Gritty Cleveland board member
  • HB Yearbook chief photo editor
Personal:
  • Research: UROP in Feng Lab studying exploring possible neural networks of Alzheimer’s
  • Research: MIT Sports Lab – researching the history of aesthetic sports to predict upcoming scoring changes in BMX competitions
  • Research: MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship group studying the impact of Covid-19 on Opioid Epidemic relief focused startups
  • Alpha Phi sorority
  • Favorite Sports Memory: “Competing in the NCAA tournament and making the Elite 8 last year.”
Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
  • “Sweeping Tufts to make it to Pittsburgh Elite Eight!”
Club:
  • Eastside Volleyball Club
  • Prep Volleyball Frosh 59 List
  • Four-time AVCA Phenom
Why I Chose MIT:
  • “I chose MIT because it truly provides me the best of everything! MIT allows me to compete alongside a group of driven, empowered, and intellectual women while receiving a world class education. Furthermore, Boston is a center of academia, innovation, and tradition. With a strong focus in STEM, the biomedical companies and hospitals surrounding MIT provide me with cutting-edge research and career opportunities that I have always wanted to pursue. Lastly, I have found the immensely collaborative MIT community to be the perfect culture for me, and I believe there is no better place than MIT to thrive.”

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Historical Player Information

  • 8

    2022First Year

    MH/RS
    6'0"
    8
  • 8

    2023Sophomore

    MH
    6'0"
    8
  • 8

    2024Junior

    MH
    6'0"
    8
  • 8

    2025Senior

    MH
    6'0"
    8