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2021-22 MIT Women's Fencing Roster

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Tesla Wells

  • Height 5-3
  • Year Graduate Student
  • Hometown Phoenix, Ariz.
  • High School North
  • Weapon Epee
  • Major Astronautical Engineering

Biography

Top Finishes
The Big One Invitational First Place (November 7, 2022)
New England Championship Tied for Third Place (March 4, 2017)
NCAA Northeast Regional Championship 12th Place (March 11, 2018)


Accolades:
- USFCA Division III All-America Epee Second Team (2021-22)
- NFC Epee All-Star First Team (2019-20)
- USFCA Northeast All-Region Honorable Mention (2019-20)
- USFCA Northeast All-Region Division III Team (2021-22)
- NFC Academic All-Conference Team (2020-21, 2021-22)
- USFCA Scholar of Distinction (2021-22)
- USFCA All-Academic Team (2021-22)


2021-22 [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 22-9
- NFC record: 19-6
- Ranked 25th at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship (3/13)
- Finished first at The Big One Invitational (11/7)


2020-21
- Did not compete as the season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic


2019-20 [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 55-25
- NFC record: 27-6
- Finished 15th at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship (3/8)
- Tied for third place at The Big One Invitational (11/2)


2018-19:
- Was not a member of the team


2017-18: [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 13-20
- NFC record: 5-6
- Finished 12th at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship (3/11)
- Ranked 10th at the New England Championship (2/24)
- Placed 17th at The Big One Invitational (11/4)


2016-17: [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
- Overall record: 30-20
- NFC record: 11-3
- Ranked 20th at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship (3/12)
- Tied for third at the New England Championship (3/4)


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Getting a top 8 at summer nationals!


Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- One of my teammates improving over her time at MIT and eventually getting a victory against a Division I school :)


Off the Fencing Strip at MIT:
- Pursuing a master’s degree in astronautical engineering
- Received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering with a minor in computer science and a concentration in music from MIT in 2020
- Interned at Millennium Space Systems
- Enterprise software engineer at SpaceX
- Was an intern at Immedia Semiconductors
- Also interned at SIFT
- Studying multi-agent robotics in the Model-Based Embedded Robotic Systems Lab
- Conducted satellite engineering research at the MIT STAR Lab
- Researched autonomy for high risk environments
- MIT Corporation's Joint Advisory Committee Member
- Student Government
- Title IX Ambassador
- DormCon
- East Campus president (2018)
- DSL student representative
- Rocket Team
- Spinning Arts
- Infinite Magazine
- WoopGaroo Magazine
- WMBR


High School:
- Graduated from North High School
- National Merit Scholar
- Student government officer


Club:
- Marx Fencing Academy
- Placed 24th in the USA during the 2016 Olympic season
- Was eighth in Senior Women’s Epee (Division 1-A) at the 2016 Summer Nationals
- Absolute Fencing All-Academic Team Scholar

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17First Year

    Epee
    5'3"
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Epee
    5'3"
  • 2019-20Senior

    Epee
    5'3"
  • 2020-21Redshirt

    Epee
    5'3"
  • 2021-22Graduate Student

    Epee
    5'3"