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2020-21 MIT Women's Fencing Roster

Miriam Rittenberg

  • Height 5-6
  • Year Sophomore
  • Hometown Brookline, Mass.
  • High School Brookline
  • Weapon Sabre
  • Major Biological Engineering

Biography

Top Finishes
The Big One Invitational Ninth Place (November 2, 2019)
New England Championship n/a
NCAA Northeast Regional Championship n/a

2020-21
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic
- NFC Academic All-Conference Team
- USFCA All-Academic Team
- USFCA Scholar of Distinction

2019-20 [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 12-9
- NFC record: 5-6
- Captured ninth place at The Big One Invitational (11/2)

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Fencing with members of the Cuban national team at Pomme de Terre.

Off the Fencing Strip at MIT:
- Majoring in biological engineering
- Researched RNA origami in the Bathe lab
- MIT Effective Altruism president
- MIT Student Information Processing Board secretary

High School:
- Graduated from Brookline High School
- 2018 Massachusetts High School Saber Team State Champion
- Most Valuable Player and three-time varsity letterwinner
- Brookline High School Lincoln Medal in Physics, Brookline High School Lincoln Medal in Math

Club:
- International Fencing Club

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

    Sabre
    5'6"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Sabre
    5'6"