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2024-25 Men's Swimming and Diving Roster

Ryan Boyles
Gil Talbot

Aaron Zhu

  • Height 6-2
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Chelmsford, Mass.
  • High School Chelmsford
  • Event IM, Breast
  • Major Business Analytics; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Biography

Accolades:

  • NEWMAC All-Conference:
    •  2023-24: 200 Back (2nd)
  • 3x NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24)
  • NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team (2023-24)
  • CSCAA Second Team Scholar All-American (2021-22)
  • CSC Third Team Academic All-American (2023-24)
  • CSC Academic All-District (2023-24)
2023-24:
  •  Competed in eight meets throughout the season
  •  Placed second in the 200 Back at NEWMAC Championships

2022-23:

  •  Earned a 8th-place finish in the 200-breast at NEWMACs
  •  Finished 5th in the 200 IM at NEWMACs and 3rd in the 400 IM

2021-22:

  •  Competed in seven events during the season
  •  Finished third in the 400 IM at NEWMACs

2020-21:

  •  Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19

Before MIT:

  •  A 2020 graduate of Chelmsford High School
  •  Valedictorian
  •  Earned four varsity letters in swimming
  •  Four-time Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic
  •  Four-time Chelmsford High Boys Swim and Dive Team MVP
  •  Senior Captain
  •  2020 Boston Globe Boys Swim and Dive Swimmer of the Year
  •  Three-time Merrimack Valley Conference Swimmer of the Year
  •  2020 Chelmsford High Class of 2020 Distinguished Athlete Award
  •  Four-time Individual MIAA D1 Boys Swim and Dive State Champion
  •  Three-time MIAA Boys Swim and Dive North Sectional Individual Champion
  •  Three-time Merrimack Valley Conference Meet Record Holder
  •  Four-time Chelmsford High Boys Swim and Dive School Record Holder
  •  Also competed for SOLO Aquatics where he was a USA Swimming Scholastic All-American, New England Swimming Age Group Record Holder, USA Swimming Junior National Qualifier and a four-time New England Swimming Athlete Representative
  •  National Honor Society
  •  National Science Honor Society
  •  Spanish Honor Society
  •  National English Honor Society
  •  Class Representative
  •  Elected Senior Class Treasurer
  •  Freshman Mentor
  •  RYLA District 7910 Group Facilitator
  •  ACT 36 Award
  •  Harvard Book Award
  •  2020 Chelmsford High Hawthorne House Student of the Year (2020)
  •  AP Scholar with Distinction
  •  NMSC Finalist

Personal:

  • Majoring in Business Analytics; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
  • Software Automation Engineering Intern at iRobot (Summer 2023)
  •  UROP with Professor Dimitris Bertsimas and his graduate students using machine learning techniques on hospital data from Hartford Hospitals and UMass Chan Worcester Hospitals to predict occurrences of rapid response events based on medical data (Summer 2022-present)
  • UROP with Professor Jim Orlin to create class materials for an undergraduate class at MIT (15.053: Optimization Methods for Business Analytics) (Summer 2021)
  • MIT Swim and Dive Class of 2024 Class Representative
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for 15.053 Optimization Methods for Business Analytics
  • MIT Associate Advisor
  • MIT Baker House Residential Peer Mentor

Favorite Sports Memory:

  •  Winning the 200 Medley Relay at Massachusetts D1 High School State Championships as a freshman with my teammates who I had grown up with since I started swimming

Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:

  •  Cheering on my teammates at our post-season meets (BU Open Invite, NEWMAC Championships, NCAAs)

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    IM, Breast
    6'2"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    IM, Breast
    6'2"
  • 2022-23Junior

    IM, Breast
    6'2"
  • 2023-24Senior

    IM, Breast
    6'2"
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    IM, Breast
    6'2"