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2025-26 MIT Sailing Roster

Ellie Pinto

  • Height 5-3
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Chicago, Ill.
  • High School Academy of Notre Dame de Namur

Biography

Career Results
2024-25:
  • Saw action on the crew in 16 regattas
  • Competed at the Open Fleet Race National Championships
  • Helped MIT take third at the Hatch Brown Trophy
2023-24:
  •  Member of the crew in 13 races
  •  Helped the team to a first place finish at the Harvard Invitational and the BU Invite
  •  Helped the team to a third place finish in the Nickerson Trophy
  •  Competed at the ICSA Open Team Racing National Championship
Before MIT:
  •  2019 Boats ‘n Bingo, Chicago – 1st (420)
  •  2022 Skyline Regatta, Chicago – 1st (C420)
  •  2022 Sail JAX Regatta, Jacksonville – 5th (C420)
  •  National Honor Society
  •  Mock Trial
  •  Summer camp counselor
  •  Columbia Sailing School instructor
  •  Distinguished Honor Roll
  •  STEM Scholar
  •  Chinese Club President
  • Mathletes Captain
  • Volunteer Math Tutor
Personal:
  • Mechanical Engineering major with a concentration in Biological Engineering
  • Chinese minor
  • UROP in Chemical Engineering Department
  • Sigma Kappa
  • Camp Kesem
Favorite Sports Memory:
  • Our last race on the first day of Open Team Race Nationals 2024. It was 8pm, the sun had set and we pulled out the win on the last leg

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24First Year

  • 2024-25Sophomore

    5'3"
  • 2025-26Junior

    5'3"