PRIOR TO TUFTS: Attended Santa Barbara High School in Santa Barbara, California...Competed in sailing all throughout high school as well as surfing and occasional spikeball...Finished 3rd in high school PCC's, A fleet...Placed 1st as bowman in 2024 Soling Dickson Cup...Placed 21st out of 129 as the skipper in 2024 c420 Nationals...Named 2024 SBYSF Double-Handed Dinghy Champion (Old Man and the Sea Perpetual Award).

PERSONAL: Parents Jon and Heidi Ziskind...Has one sibling, Zoey...His father was a professional and collegiate champion...His mother was a collegiate sailor...His sister currently sails for Harvard...Economic and entrepreneurship major...Worked at Channel Islands Surfboards adn hopes to start and run a company...Chose Tufts because "It’s pretty much the best school on earth, in in other words, like me, it’s pretty much GOATED."