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2024-25 MIT Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Gil Talbot

Stella Shipps

  • Height 5-6
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Cedar Park, Texas
  • High School Cedar Park High School
  • Event Fly
  • Major Chemical Engineering

Biography

Accolades: 
  • NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022-23)
2023-24:
  • Competed in seven meets
  • Placed second in the 100 Free against Bowdoin
2022-23:
  • Finished 12th in the 200-fly at the MIT Invite
  • Took 7th in the 200-fly at the BU Winter Open
2021-22:
  • Competed in six meets
  • Finished 8th in the 200-Free at NEWMACs
Before MIT
  • Graduate of Cedar Park High School
  • Most Valuable Swimmer 2019-2020
  • District Champion 100 Fly 2020-21
  • National Honor Society
  • Mu Alpha Theta
  • President of Black Student Union
Personal:
  • Majoring in Chemical Engineering
  • UROP in Kiessling Lab
  • Working with the Kiessling group to study the effects of fucosylated polymers on Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
  • Researched the bioactive properties of peptides extracted from food waste at the University of Alcalá.
  • Kappa Alpha Theta
  • President of MIXED @ MIT
Favorite Sports Memory:
  •  Breaking 2 minutes in the 200 freestyle for the first time.
Favorite Memory as an MIT Student Athlete:
  • Jumping off the diving board after the team won NEWMACs

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First Year

    Fly
    5'6"
  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Fly
    5'6"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Fly
    5'6"
  • 2024-25Senior

    Fly
    5'6"