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2022-23 MIT Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Gil Talbot
Gil Talbot
Brian Foley

Katelin Du

  • Height 5-2
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Scarsdale, N.Y.
  • High School Scarsdale
  • Event Diving
  • Major Nuclear Science and Engineering

Biography

Collegiate Personal Bests
1-Meter (6 Dives) 407.39
1-Meter (11 Dives) 458.40
3-Meter (6 Dives) 372.06
3-Meter (11 Dives) 450.20

Accolades:
- NEWMAC Diver of the Week (12/6/21, 11/21/22)
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21)
- CSCAA Second Team Scholar All-American (2022-23, 2021-22)
- CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention (2019-20)


In The MIT Record Books:
- One Meter Dive: 
458.40 (5th)


NEWMAC All-Conference:
- 2021-22: 1-Meter Dive (Second Team)


2022-23:
- NCAA Diving Regional Qualifier
- Finished 3rd at NEWMACs in both the 1 and 3-Meter board
- Also finished in 3rd at the MIT Invite on the 3-Meter board


2021-22:
- NCAA Diving Regional Qualifier
- Competed in seven events during the season


2020-21:
- Season Cancelled Due to Covid-19


2019-20:
- NCAA Division III Northeast-North Diving Regional Qualifier
- NCAA Regionals: 3-Meter (14th), 1-Meter (17th)
- NEWMAC: 1-Meter (6th), 3-Meter (7th)
- Invite: 1-Meter (4th), 3-Meter (8th)


Out of the Pool at MIT:
- Majoring in nuclear science and engineering
- Has a concentration in Japanese
- Research Assistant at Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Summer 2022 - Interned at X-energy in Rockville, MD. A nuclear energy startup working on a Generation IV small modular pebble bed reactor. Worked on analysis team in reactor physics simulations.
- UROP with Professor Benoit Forget in the Nuclear Science and Engineering department on modeling and simulating nuclear reactor physics
- Computational Reactor Physics Group working with Prof. Benoit Forget on OpenMC Monte Carlo neutronics simulation code.
- Archery Club


High School:
- A 2019 graduate of Scarsdale High School
- Placed in the top-14 at the NYSPHSAA Swimming & Diving Championship
- Also competed for the New York Dive Club
- Scarsdale High School Signifier Honor Society
- National Merit Scholarship Finalist


Favorite Sports Memory:
- Training trips in China with my club diving team.
Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- My favorite moments are after NEWMACs in the spring when I get to watch the swimmers run off the 5m platform

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First Year

    Diving
    5'3"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Diving
    5'3"
  • 2021-22Junior

    Diving
    5'2"
  • 2022-23Senior

    Diving
    5'2"