2024-25 Men's Track and Field Roster

Titus Kao
Titus Kao
Titus Kao
Titus Kao
Titus Kao

Jacob Kao

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Acton, Mass.
  • High School Acton-Boxborough

Biography

College Bests
60m: 6.93
100m: 10.70
200m: 21.32
300m: 34.72
400m: 50.63

2024-2025: CSC Academic All-District... Academic All-Ivy League for indoor track and field... Captained Bulldogs for 2024-2025 season... Opened up indoors at Yale Season Opener, placing first in 200m running 21.70... Backed this up with win at Y-D-C in 200m and second place in 4x400m with time of 3:16.68... Outdoors, placed second in 200m at Mark Young Invitational, running 21.59, and third in 100m, running 10.84... Improved further at UMass Ken O'Brien Pre-Conference Qualifier, running 10.79 in 100m and 21.54 in 200m... At Ivy League Outdoor Championships, ran 200m and 4x100m where team placed sixth.

2023-2024: Began season at Y-D-C, achieving second in 200m and placing third in 60m with time of 6.95... Raced 4x400m at David Hemery Valentine Invitational, running time of 3:12.44 to move to fourth all-time at Yale... At Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships, made final of 200m after running 21.81 to qualify... Opened up outdoors at UCF Knights Invite in 4x100m where team ran 41.04 to move to 10th all-time for Yale... Placed first in 200m at Yale vs. Harvard meet in 21.64... At Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Championships, raced in 100m, 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m; set a new 100m college PR of 10.70; team placed fourth in 4x100m in time of 40.99.

2022-23: Opened his season at Yale Season Opener in 300m with a new collegiate record of 34.72s... Placed third overall in Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia tri-meet in new 400m collegiate record of 50.63s... Made final of Harvard-Yale-Princeton tri-meet with time of 6.93s; fourth overall in 200m... Placed 10th at Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invite with new indoor record of 21.45s... Competed at Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships, placing ninth in 200m and 13th in 60m; was member of 4x400 relay that finished fifth...Ran collegiate records in 100m and 200m at HYOC meet with times of 10.71 and 21.32 respectively... Placed eighth in 200m and 11th in 100m at Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Championships; was member of both sprint relays... Represented combined Harvard-Yale team at 2023 Summer Transatlantic Series, winning 4x100m and in doing so breaking the meet record.

2021-2022: Won the Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia tri-meet in 200m in a time of 22.16… Competed in 200m at Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championships, plaqcing 15th… Placed third in Harvard-Yale match 200m… Competed at Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 200m, placing 15th, and was a member of Yale 4x100 and 4x400m teams.

Acton-Boxborough High School: Two-time All American (200m, 4x200 at adidas Indoor Nationals 2021)... Team captain... Boston Globe All-Scholastic… Boston Herald All-Scholastic... Massachusetts 200m State Champion 2021... Six-time all-league... Two-time Team MVP… Set school records in 60m (6.88), 200m (21.17), 300m (34.45), 400m (48.26), indoor 200m (21.54), 4x100 (41.89; also state record), 4x200 (1:28.12; also New England, state record) and 4x400 (3:20.50)… Team was All-State Team Champion Outdoor 2021, D1 State Champions 2021, All-State Team Runners-Up Outdoor 2019.
 
Notes: Loves to rock climb, bake and cook … Sister Emily Kao graduated from Cornell in 2022 ... High school teammate Adam Yang ran for Penn ... High school teammate Samantha Friborg ran for Yale.
 
Why Yale? “At Yale, I see a future of success, growth and learning made possible by the excellent faculty, residential college community and academic resources.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Sophomore

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  • 2022-23Sophomore

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  • 2023-24Junior

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    2024-25Senior

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