Members

President

Fusheng (Ivy) Yang is a PhD student in Statistics. She started skydiving in the summer of 2020 and has enthusiasm for formation skydiving and canopy accuracy. Her goal is to jump into campus one day and become an AFF instructor in the future. In her free time, Ivy enjoys scuba diving and skiing.

Vice President

Alanna Ward is a sophomore double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. She completed her first jump in October 2022. She plans to compete at this year's USPA Collegiate Skydiving Championships and hopes to get into BASE jumping and HALO skydiving in the future. Outside of skydiving, she enjoys building race cars, fencing, snowboarding, sailing, scuba diving, and really any water activity except waterboarding.

Treasurer

Carlo Marano is a junior 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.

Secretary

Aidan Wright is a sophomore 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.

Gabriela Soriano is a senior majoring in molecular biology and biophysics. 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!!

Giavannah (Gigi) Gorgone is a senior majoring in Molecular Biology who got her A license in fall 2021!! She has participated in a handful of indoor 4-way competitions, and enjoys doing crazy exits out of the plane with the rest of the team.

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.