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2024-25 MIT Sailing Roster

David Curtis

Sam Bruce

  • Height 5-8
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Annapolis, Md.
  • High School Severn School

Biography

Career Results


Accolades: 

  • NEISA Second Team Open Skipper (2022-23)
  • NEISA First Team Open Skipper (2023-24)
  • ICSA Honorable Mention All-American Skipper (2022-23)
  • ICSA All-Academic Team (2022-23, 2023-24)
2024-25:
  • Saw action in 16 regattas as the skipper
  • Took first at the Staake Trophy
  • Skipper at the Open Fleet Race National Championship
2023-24:
  •  Skipper for 19 races
  •  Competed as a skipper for a third place finish in the Captain Hurst Bowl
  •  Competed as a skipper in the Atlantic Coast Open Championship Finals, Open Dinghy National Championship, and the ICSA Open Team Racing National Championship

2022-23:

  •  Skipper for 16 events
  •  Led MIT to a 2nd-place finish at the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup
  •  Skipper in the A Division of the Open New England Fleet Race Championship where MIT finished 12th
  •  Helped Engineers to a 6th-place finish in the College Sailing Open Eastern Semifinal and a 14th-place finish in the National Championship
  •  Skipper for second-place Engineers in the A Division of the Harry Anderson Trophy

2021-22: 

  •  Skippered 16 races during the year
  •  Helped lead the team to a second-place finish at the Staake Team Race
  •  Led the A Division team to a fourth-place finish in the College Sailing Open Western Semifinal 

2020-21:

  •  Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19

Before MIT:

  •  A 2020 graduate of Severn High School
  •  Valedictorian
  •  Earned four varsity letters in sailing
  •  2nd place at 2019 ISSA Mallory Championship
  •  6th Place at 2018 and 5th place at 2019 ISSA Baker Championship
  •  1st place at 2016 Opti World Championship Team Racing
  •  3rd place at 2019 Buzzards Bay Regatta c420
  •  3rd place at 2019 Orange Bowl c420
  •  National French Honor Society
  •  National Honor Society
  •  Cum Laude
  •  Mu Alpha Theta Math honor society
  •  Severn School Cyberpatriot club member; president 2019-2020
  •  Severn School historical society founder and editor
  •  2019 Capital Gazette Outstanding Achievers Award

Personal:

  •  Graduate student pursuing a master in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  •  Major is electrical engineering and computer science
  •  Engineering intern at SiriusXM. Engineering intern at Syntonics
  •  Member of the Sandbox program
  •  Teaching Assistant for the class "How to Make Almost Anything"
Favorite Sports Memory:
  •  Becoming team racing world champions at 2016 optimist worlds.
Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
  • Winning the first race at 2022 college nationals

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21First Year

    5'8"
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    5'8"
  • 2022-23Junior

    5'8"
  • 2023-24Senior

    5'8"
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    5'8"