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2023-24 MIT Sailing Roster

Maks Groom

  • Height 6-1
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Seattle, Wash.
  • High School Ingraham

Biography

Career Results


Accolades:
- ICSA All-Academic Team (2022-23)


2023-24:
- Skipper in 18 races
- Competed in the ICSA Open Team Racing National Championship and Open Dinghy National Championship
- Helped the team to fourth place finishes in four races, including the Sharpe Trophy Team Race and the Wood Trophy Race

2022-23:
- Skipper
- Helped the C Division Team to a victory in the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup
- Member of team that finished fourth at the Harvard Invitational
- Skipper of B Division boat that finished 7th in the College Sailing Open Eastern Semifinal 


2021-22:
- Skippered the MIT boat in 15 regattas
- Skipper of the boat that raced in the College Sailing Open Semifinal and finished 13th in the B Division
- Skippered the Engineers' boat to a second place finish in the A Division at both the Charles and Harvard Invitational in September


2020-21:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19


On Dry Land at MIT:
- Major is mathematics
- Minor in public policy
- Development Intern, Flexcompute (Summer 2022)
- UROP in AeroAstro with Prof. Qiqi Wang on computational aeroacoustics methods. Focus on mid fidelity methods for prediction of interaction noise for urban air mobility concepts.
- Maxwell Foundation Scholarship


High School:
- A 2020 graduate of Ingraham High School
- Four-time varsity letterwinner in sailing
- Three-time MVP Skipper
- Placed second in A division NWISA Fleet Race Championship 2019
- Also competed for the Sand Point Youth Sailing Team
- President of the Ingraham Sailing Club
- National Merit Scholarship
- Ingraham Departmental Scholar in Mathematics
- President's List and Dean's List at North Seattle College

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    6'1"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    6'1"
  • 2022-23Junior

    6'1"
  • 2023-24Senior

    6'1"