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2020-21 MIT Women's Fencing Roster

Nisha Devasia

  • Height 5-0
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Nashua, N.H.
  • High School Nashua
  • Weapon Sabre
  • Major Computer Science and Comparative Media Studies

Biography

Top Finishes
The Big One InvitationalT-14th Place (November 2, 2019)
New England Championshipn/a
NCAA Northeast Regional Championshipn/a

 

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

2019-20 [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 10-14
- NFC record: 6-3
- Tied for 14th place at The Big One Invitational (11/2)

2018-19: [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 5-2
- NFC record: 3-1
- Ranked 33rd at The Big One Invitational (10/28)

2017-18: [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 0-5
- NFC record: 0-3
- Tied for 46th place at The Big One Invitational (11/4)

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Winning my first bout at a real meet!

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Cheering for the men's saber team at the Duke invitational meet - we beat Duke!!!

Off the Fencing Strip at MIT:
- Majoring in computer science and comparative media studies
- Was a software engineering intern at PlayStation and Twitch
- An undergraduate researcher in the MIT Media Lab and the MIT The Education Arcade
- Researched creativity studies using interactive games
- Conducted a UROP in the political science department researching election and data science
- Was an intern in the MIT STEP Lab where she added a feature to platforms for a location based augmented reality smartphone game
- Xbox Women in Gaming Scholarship
- Rewriting the Code Fellow
- GEL
- UPOP
- UROP
- Associate Advisor
- East Campus 2019 CPW Chair
- East Campus Hall Chair
- Dorm government
- MIT Ohms

High School:
- Graduated from Nashua High School
- Salutatorian
- National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta
- National Merit Scholar
- The Fountainhead Essay Contest finalist
- 2016 Japan-America Friendship Scholar
- 2016 Reischauer Scholar
- 2015 Math Prize for Girls
- State AP Scholar and National AP Scholar
- Two-time AIME qualifier, two-time NACLO semifinalist

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18First Year

    Sabre
    5'0"
  • 2018-19Sophomore

    Sabre
    5'0"
  • 2019-20Junior

    Sabre
    5'0"
  • 2020-21Senior

    Sabre
    5'0"