Members

President

Andrew Yin is a boss. He skydives a lot and packs a lot of parachutes.

Vice President

Will Savage is a Junior studying Communications. He started skydiving in January of 2016 because a friend persuaded him to and has accrued over 190 jumps since. Will likes skydiving because of the comradery and unique perspective of the world it gives you. When he’s not jumping, Will likes skiing, photography, cracking jokes, and complaining about the weather. He hopes to one day fly camera for tandems and become an AFF instructor.

Treasurer

Michelle Nguyen

Secretary

Ethan Beattie is an engineering student from Massachusetts. Ethan began his skydiving career in 2017 in order to meet skydiving legend John Spear. When he is not jumping, Ethan can be found performing his duties as a member of the UConn Space Force R.O.T.C. Despite being an absolute snack, Ethan is committed to his true love, Isabel.

Will Howard is a senior Materials Science and Engineering student. He earned his license the summer of his freshman year after completing his first tandem in September of 2015. Since earning his license he has accumulated over 200 skydives. If the weather is nice and you can't find him at the dropzone he is probably flying around the northeast as a private pilot.

Thomas Pietruszewski is a junior is the Psychological Sciences program at UConn. He got his A license in the fall of 2016 and has since made over 80 jumps. He was inspired to skydive by the mid-air fight scene between James Bond and Jaws in the Moonraker (1979). His goals for skydiving are to be the very best, like no one ever was.

Meghan Ryan

Hailey Voyer is a junior studying physiology and neurobiology. She made her first tandem for her 18th birthday in 2015, and has since made 70 jumps. She is currently training for the UConn 4-Way team to compete at the 2017 collegiate competition. In her free time, she enjoys taking long naps and eating chicken nuggets.

Rhianna Sullivan

Christie Kosecki

Lia Young

Alex Teskey enjoys all types of skydiving, especially crw (where you smash your fully functioning parachute into another one!). He recently got his tandem rating and has been loving every minute of it. He is a jumper at Skydive Danielson, making sure UConn Skydiving is represented at all of the CT dropzones.

Doug Hendrix is a grad student studying Materials Science and Engineering. He made his first tandem jump in September of 2011 and got licensed that following semester. He has accrued over 1600 jumps since. Doug thoroughly enjoys 4-way formation skydiving and has several medals in 4-way as well as sport accuracy. Doug hopes to be a well rounded skydiver and eventually get into other air sports. His favorite motto throughout skydiving is "If you ain't first, you're last."

Photographer

Dave Gerstein is a young immigrant from Chile. He got his skydiving license a few weeks ago and has since made over 2000 jumps. His favorites activities include: frolicking in corn fields, listening to heavy metal, and being in pictures. He has been photographing for the paparazzi for the past 10 years and founded the National Geographic. He also enjoys making quirky captions on his website, www.skydivingstills.com. Dave always makes us look good skydiving, no matter what. Proof of this is from almost every picture on this site provided by Dave.