Elissa Lin
| Year: | Sophomore |
| Hometown: | Potomac, Md. |
| High School: | Georgetown Day School |
| Major: | Human Evolutionary Biology |
| House Affiliation: | Cabot |
Freshman • 2012
Coxed for the novice lightweight eight all season … Aided
the novice eight in a third-place finish at EAWRC Sprints …
Helped sweep Princeton and MIT … Contributed to the novice
eights efforts against Georgetown and the Radcliffe second varsity
eights.
Before Harvard
Was a coxswain for Georgetown Day School for three years …
Awarded Most Valuable Player in crew (2008) and the Coach’s
Award (2011) … Earned the Fran Young Math Award and the
National Merit Scholarship … Was ranked as high as No. 1 in
table tennis in the state of Maryland.
Personal
Hobbies include cooking, traveling and hiking … Father,
Paul ’83, and two uncles, Patrick ’84 and Perry
’89, attended Harvard University.

