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2025-26 MIT Women's Openweight Crew Roster

Nina Navabi

  • Height 5-6
  • Class First Year
  • Hometown Potomac, Md.
  • High School Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
  • Major Mathematics with Computer Science

Biography

Before MIT: 
  • Rowed varsity crew and played soccer
  • Double Qualifications to Youth Nationals
  • Silver in Mid-Atlantic Championship 8+ 2V
  • 2022 Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta - 1st place - 2v 8+
  • 2023 Bill Braxton Regatta - 1st place - 2V 8+
  • 2021 Most Improved Player of the Season (Soccer)
  • DC National Rowing Club & TBC Racing
  • Cum Laude Society - Stone Ridge Chapter
  • Leader - MESA Middle Eastern Student Alliance
  • Co-Founder and Leader - Game Lounge Club
  • Co-Founder & Leader - Rowing Club
  • Co-President - Girls Who Code, Leader - R. I. S. E. Rights in Special Education
  • Presidential Scholar Candidate 2025
  • The White House, Merit Scholarship (4 years)
  • Stone Ridge School (2021 - 2025), Highest Honors - Stone Ridge School 9th - 11th grade (2021 - 2024)
  • The Americas Scholarship - St. Andrews University Scotland - SAECSummer 2023
  • Merit Scholarship to Study Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science
  • Gold Award - National German Exam 2022
  • AATG / PAD National German Exam Scholarship
  • American Association of Teachers of German
  • Finalist / Winner Summer Study Program - 2022
  • AP Scholar with Honor Award 2024
  • Seal of Biliteracy - German
Personal:
  • Favorite Sports Memory: Bonding with my teammates during regattas
Favorite Memory as an MIT student-athlete: 
  • Meeting and having fun with the older MIT athletes