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2024-25 MIT Sailing Roster

Mercedes Escandon

  • Height 5-4
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Brick, N.J.
  • High School St. Rose High School

Biography

Career Results
Accolades:
  • NEISA Sailor of the Week (10/9/23)
  • ICSA All-Academic Team (2023-24)
2024-25:
  • Competed in 14 regattas
  • Was part of the crew at the Women's Fleet Race National Championships
  • Helped MIT capture first at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl
2023-24:
  •  Competed in 18 races
  •  Helped the team to a third place finish in the Atlantic Coast Women's Championships First Round as crew
  •  Competed in the Women's Dinghy National Championship and ICSA Women's Team Race National Championship
2022-23:
  •  Crew
  •  Helped the Engineers finish 4th at the Women's Team Race National Championship
  •  Part of the team that won the Franny Charles Team Race
  •  Member of crew that helped lead MIT to a 7th place finish at the College Sailing Women's National Championship
2021-22: 
  •  Competed in 15 regattas during the season
  •  Was part of the crew for 14 races, skippered in the B Division Race during the Charles Invitational
  •  Part of the boat that won both the Ivan Geiger Team Race and the Seahawk Women's Team Race
Before MIT:
  •  Graduate of St. Rose High School
  •  New Jersey Interscholastic Sailing Association Sportsmanship Award 2019-2020
  •  National Honor Society
  •  World Language Honor Society
  •  Student Council - Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Class Treasurer
  •  Summa Cum Laude- Math, Social Studies, Science
  •  Magna Cum Laude- English, Theology
  •  Sister Ann Masarelli Scholar-Athlete Award
Personal:
  •  Mechanical Engineering major
  •  Sigma Kappa
Favorite Sports Memory
  •  Going on road trips with friends for regattas
Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
  •  Traveling to San Francisco and placing 4th at Women's Team Race Nationals

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    5'4"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    5'4"
  • 2023-24Junior

    5'4"
  • 2024-25Senior

    5'4"