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2022-23 MIT Women's Openweight Crew Roster

Portia Gaitskell

  • Height 5-11
  • Class Senior
  • High School Lincoln School
  • Hometown Barrington, R.I.
  • Major Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Biography

2022-23:
- Patriot League Boat of the Week (April 5)
- Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
- CRCA Scholar-Athlete
- Appeared in 11 events, all as a member of the V8+
- Was the #7 seat of the V8+ that finished first at the Quinsigamond Snake Regatta (10/15)
- Was the #7 seat of the Club 8+ “A” that finished sixth at the Head of the Charles (10/22)
- Was the #7 seat of the V8+ that finished third at the Head of the Fish (10/29)
- Was the #6 seat of the V8+ that finished second in the Grand Final of the Cal Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic (4/2)
- Was the #6 seat of the V8+ that finished first in the Grand Final at the New England Rowing Championship (5/6)
- Was the #6 seat of the V8+ that finished third in the Grand Final at the Patriot League Championship (5/12)

2021-22: 
- CRCA Scholar-Athlete
- Patriot League Academic Honor Roll
- Rowed in the V8 in all 10 regattas, starting in the No. 7 seat for the first two before moving to the No. 1 seat
- Was in the V8 that was sixth at the Head of the Charles and finished fourth in the Grand Final at the Knecht Cup
- The V8 also captured three races during the season


2020-21:
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic
- Patriot League Academic Honor Roll


2019-20: 
- Competed in two fall regattas as the spring season was cancelled
- Finished sixth at the Head of the Charles in the club singles event
- Rowed in the No. 5 seat of the V8 at the Head of the Fish as the team was first out of 17


Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Winning Head of the Fish in 2019


Off the River at MIT:
- Majoring in electrical engineering and computer science with a concentration in economics
- Microsoft Software Engineering Intern
- Zoox Perception Software Engineer
- Automatic Document Processing with Amar Gupta's lab in CSAIL
- Super UROP in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with the Computation Design and Fabrication Group in CSAIL
- Member of Sigma Kappa
- Co-President of the Global Research and Consulting Group


High School:
- Rowed for the Narragansett Boat Club
- Four-year letter winner in crew, along with three in cross country and two in basketball
- Fourth at the 2016 NEIRA in the 1V 4+ and 11th in 2017
- Ninth at the 2019 NEIRA 1V
- Placed third at the 2018 Head of the Charles in the Club 1x
- 2018 US Presidential Scholar

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

    5'10"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    5'10"
  • 2021-22Junior

    5'11"
  • 2022-23Senior

    5'11"