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California Institute of Technology

2026 Track and Field Roster

Jacob Wolmer (He/him)

  • Height 5-10
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Tenafly, N.J.
  • High School Tenafly
  • Events Distance

Biography

Research and STEM Activities

Began work with Dr. Avimanyou Vatsa on Blockchain-Based E-Voting during the summer of 2021... Paper: Retrieval of Data from the Database of a BCT-Voting System, was accepted into the IEEE ISEC Conference, hosted by Princeton University... Poster finalist at Ocean County Jersey Shore Junior Science Symposium for previous year's work with natural language processing... Same project was submitted to the Regeneron Science Talent Search and the New Jersey Academy of Science... Participated in Toshiba Exploravision with Andrew Volynsky, investigating the feasibility of wave-powered carbon capture technology... Worked with Dr. William Grosky, the chairman of Computer Science at the University of Michigan, on research project titled, A Novel Method of Text Encoding For Recurrent Neural Network Text Generation.

Prior to Caltech

Academic Honors: 4 year Highest Honor Roll and AP Scholar With Distinction Award.

Athletic Honors: 2 League Titles in the 3200m and Cross Country, Athlete of the Year Award (2021), 4 Year varsity athlete in Track and Field, Competed in Ironman 70.3 World Championships and 2022 USA Triathalon National Championship.

Personal

Loves to ski, play piano, hike/backpack, and scuba dive... Holds a black belt in karate... Chose Caltech for the academic rigor, small school atmosphere, and internship and research opportunities.

Historical Player Information

  • 2023First-Year

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2024Sophomore

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2025Junior

    Distance
    5'10"
  • 2026Senior

    Distance
    5'10"