Karenna Groff, a former MIT soccer player who won the 2022 NCAA woman of the year award for her work during the COVID-19 ...

2022 NCAA woman of the year and MIT women's soccer graduate student Karenna Groff throws a ball prior to a Red Sox baseball ...

helping to create a new design of masks for essential workers. In 2023, she received the prestigious NCAA Woman of the Year award for her on- and off-field accomplishments. “Really, this ...

Groff majored in biological engineering, and co-founded openPPE in 2020, a project aimed at designing and manufacturing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was named the NCAA woman of the year ...

During her studies, Karenna cofounded openPPE, which helped create a new type of face mask for essential workers ... soccer field earned her the title of NCAA’s 2022 Woman of the Year.