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2025-26 MIT Women's Openweight Crew Roster

Elizabeth Wright

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Fair Haven, N.J.
  • High School Rumson Fair Haven Regional
  • Major Economics and Mathematics

Biography

Accolades:
  • 2023-24 CRCA Scholar-Athlete
  • Patriot League Academic Honor Roll (2022-23, 2023-24)2x
  • Honorable Mention Patriot League Boat of the Week (April 17, 2024) 
2023-24:
  • Appeared in nine events 
  • Was the #5 seat of the Club 8+ “B” that finished ninth at the Head of the Charles (10/21)   
  • Was the #5 seat of the Collegiate 2V8+ (2V) that finished first at the Head of the Fish (10/28)  
  • Was the #5 seat of the 2V8+ that finished first at the Knecht Cup (4/14)   
  • Was the #5 seat of the 2V8+ that finished first at the Holy Cross Invite (4/20)   
  • Was the #5 seat of the 2V8+ that finished first in the Grand Final at the New England Rowing Championship (5/4)   
  • Was the #5 seat of the 2V8+ that finished second at the Patriot League Championship (5/17)
2022-23:
  • Appeared in nine events, six as a member of the V4+
  • Was the #7 seat of the 2V8+ that finished fourth at the Quinsigamond Snake Regatta (10/15)
  • Was the #3 seat of the V4+ that finished second in the Petite Final at the Knecht Cup (4/15)
  • Was the #3 seat of the V4+ that finished third in the Grand Final at the New England Rowing Championship (5/6)
  • Was the #3 seat of the V4+ that finished first in the Petite Final at the Patriot League Championship (5/12)
Before MIT:
  • Attended the 2022 USRowing Youth National Championships in the Youth 2x
  • Won the Women's Varsity 2x at the Garden State Scholastic Championships
  • Placed second in the Varsity 2x at Mid-Atlantic Youth Championships in May 2022
  • Rowed in the grand final of the 2022 Stotesbury Regatta in the Senior 2x, where she placed fifth
  • Won two letters each in rowing and swimming
  • AP Scholar with Distinction
  • High Honors student
  • Mathematics Department Senior Award
  • Chinese Department Senior Award
  • Member of the National, Mathematics, Science, English, Social Studies and Chinese Honor Societies
Personal:
  • Majoring in Economics and Mathematics with a Concentration in Chinese
  • Intern at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Research Assistant in the Economics Department
  • Amphibious Achievement Director of External Relations
  • Secretary of the Science Policy Initiative
  • Simmons Hall Secretary
Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete: 
  • Coming from behind to take third in the 4+ at NERC

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    5'7"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    5'6"
  • 2025-26Senior

    5'7"