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2023-24 MIT Women's Fencing Roster

Marina Ten Have

  • Height 5-7
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Nerima, Japan
  • High School The American School In Japan
  • Weapon Foil
  • Major Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making

Biography

Top Finishes
The Big One Invitational 41st place (November 4, 2023)
New England Championship n/a
NCAA Northeast Regional Championship n/a


Accolades:
- NFC Academic All-Conference Team (2022-23, 2023-24)
- USFCA All-Academic Team (2022-23, 2023-24)
- USFCA Scholar of Distinction (2023-24)


2023-24 [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Finished in 41st place at The Big One Invitational (11/4)

2022-23 [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 1-10
- NFC record: 1-7


Favorite Sports Memory:
- When our high school team went to Hawaii for a XC race - even though we didn't win we ran into the ocean at the end and it was so refreshing and fun.


Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Eating cake at our last fencing practice last year.


Off the Fencing Strip at MIT:
- Majoring in artificial intelligence and decision making with a minor in urban planning and a concentration in Chinese
- Internships: PlayStation; Nikkei Japan; Complutense University of Madrid's Computational Neuroscience Lab; AmadeusCode (engineering intern)
- Research: 3D scene generation
- Research: Designed the ML training website for RIskMap Japan
- Research: UROP with the Kara Black Hole Group, analyzing black hole outbursts over 20 years to learn more about the geometry and behaviors of the black hole corona
- Research: Member of the 2022 NASA RASC-AL MIT team, and helped design a Mars ISRU architecture mission concept
- First place overall and Best in Theme at the 2022 NASA RASC-AL competition
- MIT Japanese Society of Undergraduates design director
- Board Member of the Infinite Magazine (MIT's student-run fashion and art magazine)
- Treasurer of the Film & Video Productions club
- Participated in the MISTI-Spain the summer between freshman and sophomore year
- Was a member of MIT's cross country and track and field team in 2021-22


High School:
- Graduated from the American School in Japan
- School record holder in the 1,500m and the 3,000m
- Two-time cross country MVP in 2019 and 2020
- 2020 Track and Field MVP
- 2019 Track and Field Most Improved
- First place in the 2018 and 2019 DODEA Pacific Far East Track and Field Girls 3200m
- First place in the 2019 and 2020 Kanto Plain Finals Track and Field 3200m, along with second place in 2018
- Won the 2020 International School Bangkok Cross Country Invitational
- Won the 2019 Asia Pacific Cross Country Invitational in 2019 while finishing second in 2017 and 2018
- Finished first at the 2018 DODEA Pacific Far East Cross Country meet and the 2019 Kanto Plain XC Finals
- Member of the National Honor Society
- Cross country team captain
- Filmmaking (documentary and short films)
- Human Rights Club Leader
- TEDxYouth@Tokyo Head of PR
- Daruma Art and Literary Magazine Publicity Director
- iGEM competition
- Mentoring at classroom for immigrants in Japan
- Math Excellence Award (2018, 2019 (2x), 2020)
- Science Excellence Award (2020)
- Social Studies Excellence Award (2019)
- Spanish Excellence Award (2018, 2019, 2020)
- Interlochen arts summer program Merit Scholarship (2018, 2019)

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Foil
    5'7"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Foil
    5'7"