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2024-25 MIT Sailing Roster

Gil Talbot

Julius Heitkoetter

  • Height 5-11
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Austin, Texas
  • High School Lake Travis High School

Biography

Career Results
Accolades:
  • ICSA All-Academic Team (2023-24)
2024-25:
  • Saw action in 15 races
  • Helped the Engineers place first overall at the Staake Trophy
  • Skipper at the Open Fleet Race National Championships
2023-24:
  •  Participated in 15 races as both skipper and crew
  •  Helped the team to a first place finish in the George Warren Smith Trophy Race, as well as a second place finish at the BU October Invite
  • Competed in the Atlantic Coast Open Championship Finals and the ICSA Open Team Racing National Championship
2022-23:
  •  Saw race action as both the skipper and crew
  •  Skipper of A Division boat that took second at the Warren Smith Trophy
  •  Finished 6th in the A Division and 7th in the B Division at the College Sailing Open Eastern Semifinal
2021-22:
  •  Appeared in 11 regattas as a first-year
  •  Was the skipper in four races and crew in seven
  •  Member of the crew that finished second at the Staake Team Race (Mar. 26) 
  •  Was the skipper of the Engineers' boat that claimed second at the Tufts Invitational (Sept. 18)
Before MIT:
  • Graduate of Lake Travis High School
  • Salutatorian
  • 100+ Hours of Community Service Award
  • Jessie McIlroy Smith Bowl (outstanding achievement in sailing)
  • US Sailing Chubb Championship Sportsmanship Award
  • Concordia University Missionary-Youth-Retreat Acceptance and Scholarship.
  • 2 state Championships
  • 7th at Baker and 15th at Mallory
  • C420 Sailing: Double handed Texas State Champions (2017, 2018, 2019), 4th at Bemis Champs, 6th and 4th at Sears Junior Champs, 15th at C420 Nationals 2019
  • National Honors Society Academic Chair and member
  • Vice President of Technology for LTHS Orchestra Program
  • Co-founder and President of LTHS Sailing Team
  • LT Scholar
  • AP Scholar
Personal:
  • Majoring in artificial intelligence and decision making
  • Internship at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology
  • Experimental Teilchenphysik, working with CMS data gathered from the CERN LHC.
  • Cello Ensemble
Favorite Sports Memory
  •  Sailing with Team Texas for C420 North Americans in San Francisco
Favorite Memory as an MIT Student Athlete:
  •  Bonding with the team and practicing hard over spring break.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    5'11"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    5'11"
  • 2023-24Junior

    5'11"
  • 2024-25Senior

    5'11"