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California Institute of Technology

2026 Track and Field Roster

Richard Hoffman (he/him)

  • Height 6-3
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Simi Valley, Calif.
  • High School Westlake
  • Events Distance

Biography

Research and STEM Activities

Was a research intern at CU Boulder in the Autonomous Robots Perception Group under Professor Christoffer Heckman where he worked on autonomous model cars and created neural networks... Completed a UCSB Summer Research program plotting light curve of eclipsing binary SW-LAC using Python... Was a market research intern at Modulus, researching industry-relevant information in the materials science area.

Prior to Caltech

Academic Honors: National Honor Society... USACO participant (Silver)... CALICO Informatics Competition participant (10th).

Athletic Honors: Member of School-Record 4x800 team.

Personal

Chose Caltech because of the close-knit community and the brilliant, passionate and friendly students; also valued the invaluable resources and opportunities provided through the school... In free time likes to play piano and read... Fan of Oreo cookies.

Historical Player Information

  • 2024First-Year

    Distance
    6'3"
  • 2025Sophomore

    Distance
    6'3"
  • 2026Junior

    Distance
    6'3"