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2024-25 MIT Sailing Roster

Samantha Karlson

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Groton, Conn.
  • High School The Williams School

Biography

Career Results
Accolades:
  • 2023-24 NEISA First Team Women's Crew 
  • 2x NEISA Sailor of the Week (9/13/23, 10/9/23)
  • ICSA All-Academic Team (2023-24)
2024-25:
  • Part of the crew in 17 regattas
  • Competed at the ICSA Women's Team Race National Championship
  • Took part in the Open Eastern Championship Semifinals
2023-24:
  •  Member of the crew in 20 races
  •  Helped the team to a first place finish at the Toni Deutsch '58 Regatta and the Franny Charles Women's Team Race
  •  Competed in the Women's Dinghy National Championship and the ICSA Women's Team Race National Championship
2022-23:
  •  Member of the crew in 18 races
  •  Part of the team which won the Franny Charles Team Regatta
  •  Member of team that finished fourth at the Women's Team Race National Championship
  •  Helped B Division Team place third in the College Sailing Western Semifinal
2021-22:
  •  Competed in 18 races as a first-year, all as part of the crew
  •  Member of the Crew at the College Sailing Women's National Championship
  •  Part of crew that finished second at the Staake Team Race (Mar. 26)
  •  Finished second in the A Division at the Charles Invitational (Sept. 12)
Before MIT:
  •  Graduated from The Williams School
  •  Sailing "Sparkplug" Award
  •  Swimming Blues Spirit Award
  •  Sailing Coaches' Award
  •  4th Mid Atlantic Championships 2019
  •  Cum Laude Society
  •  Distinguished Honors Freshman-Senior
  •  National Latin Exam awards (Gold medal 2021)
  • Recipient of the Senior Physics Book Award
  • Math Book Award, and Classics Book Award
  • Award for Intellectual Curiosity (2020)
Personal:
  •  Major is Nuclear Engineering
  •  Yttrium Hydride Material Research through the NSE under Professor Mike Short
Favorite Sports Memory:
  •  My favorite sports memory was during an event at Yale, as we were in an intense downwind jybe battle with a Yale boat and going back and forth for about half the leg.
Favorite Memory as an MIT Student Athlete: 
  • My favorite moment as an MIT student athlete was at Women's Team Race Nationals this year, because we all thought it would be a ton of fun and bring good vibes if we all wore matching Hawaiian shirts. I remember doing the cotton eyed joe dance in those shirts right before the first race to get everyone excited.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    5'5"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    5'5"
  • 2023-24Junior

    5'5"
  • 2024-25Senior

    5'5"