Members

President

Alanna Ward is a Junior double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. After medaling in formation skydiving, she would like to now focus more on Sport Accuracy. In the future, she hopes to get into BASE jumping and HALO skydiving. Outside of jumping out of planes, she enjoys building race cars, fencing, snowboarding, sailing, scuba diving, and really any water activity except waterboarding.

Vice President

Dylan Brockel is a Junior majoring in Materials Science and Engineering who first jumped in the spring of 2025. His favorite things to do in the sky are accuracy landings and tracking jumps, eventually hoping to get into wing-suiting. Outside of skydiving, he snowboards and works alongside the metalworking club.

Treasurer

Aidan Wright is a Senior majoring in Mathematics and Philosophy. Aidan completed his first jump on UConn's tandem weekend in October 2022 and got his A license a year later. He plans on competing in accuracy landing at this year's USPA Collegiate Skydiving Championships. He hopes to one day learn how to fly a wingsuit, but for now, he is focusing on formation skydiving.

Secretary

Allison Alarafi

Sebastian Gorgone

Gabriela Soriano is a PhD student majoring in Biomedical Sciences. She got her A license in fall 2022, and is looking to improve her skills in 4-way formation!! Her goal is to try wingsuiting in the future, and become a coach for new skydivers!!

Carlo Marano is a Senior majoring in Finance. He got his A license in the fall of 2023 after jumping at both tandem weekends in his freshman year. While he loves freefall, flying under canopy is the highlight of his jumps. Aside from learning how to sitfly, Carlo wants to jump with all of friends and family.

Kathryn Ausere is a Sophomore Chemical Engineering student. Her favorite part of skydiving is formations, especially 4-ways, but she also loves fun jumps when the opportunity arises. Her goal is to continue gaining 4-way skills, make a balloon jump, and jump in every country that she visits.

Ellarie Stevens is a Freshman majoring in Sociology. Ellarie made her first tandem in April 2025, got her A license in August 2025, and her B license in September 2025. She plans to compete in this year’s USPA Collegiate Skydiving Championships. Her goal is to improve her canopy work, jump at new places, and out of new aircraft, e.g., helicopters and hot air balloons.

Jodie Chan. She's trying her best.

Shining Yu is an international student from Taiwan majoring in Business Management. He was on the boxing team but decided to switch to a less dangerous sport, so he joined the skydiving team. This is his last semester at UConn, and his goal is to acquire his A-License by the end of November and compete at the USPA Collegiate Skydiving Championships. Wish him luck!

Amelia Smith is a Freshman majoring in Mechanical Engineering. She started skydiving in June 2025 and plans to compete in the upcoming USPA Collegiate Skydiving Championships. She is hoping to learn how to free fly in the future. Outside of skydiving, her interests involve skiing and soccer.

Photographer

Dave Gerstein is a young immigrant from Chile. He got his skydiving license a few years ago and has since made over 4000 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.