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2023-24 MIT Sailing Roster

Matthew Elliott

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Waterford, Mich.
  • High School West Bloomfield

Biography

Career Results


Accolades:
- ICSA All-Academic Team (2022-23, 2023-24)


2023-24:
- Competed as a skipper in 9 out of 14 races participated in
- Competed as a member of the crew in the NEISA Open Team Race Championship and the Eastern Open National Semi-Final
- Helped the team to a second place finish at the BU October Invite as skipper

2022-23:
- Competed in eight races during the season
- Helped the B Division Team to a fifth-place finish at the Warren Smith Trophy
- Skipper


2021-22: 
- Appeared in 10 regattas as the skipper
- Helped the boat finish first in the A Division at the Central Series Four Race on April 17
- Skippered boat that finished fourth in the A Division at the Harvard Invitational oon Sept. 11


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


On Dry Land at MIT:
- Majoring in aerospace engineering
- Business management minor
- Space Habitat Design Engineer and Project Manager at SAGA Space Architects 
- Manufacturing Engineering Intern for E-Motors Lab at General Motors (Summer 2021)
- Aerospace Engineering Intern at Williams International (Summer 2022)
- UROP through the MIT AeroAstro Department in the Engineering Systems Lab working on the PEARL project
- Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program
- UPOP
- MIT Cru
- Athletes In Action


High School:
- A 2020 graduate of West Bloomfield High School
- Earned four varsity letters in sailing
- Four-time Scholar-Athlete
- Placed third at the Michigan State Laser Championship in 2018 and 2019
- Also competed for the Pontiac Yacht Club Summer Race Team
- National Honor Society
- Captain of varsity sailing team
- Executive of the Chemistry Club
- President of the Chemistry Olympiad
- HOSA
- Jazz Band
- Elks Most Valuable Student Scholarship Recipient
- Sun Unity Scholarship 2019
- GPYC Youth Nautical Foundation Scholarship Recipient

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    6'0"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    6'0"
  • 2022-23Junior

    6'0"
  • 2023-24Senior

    6'0"