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California Institute of Technology

2024 Caltech Women's Water Polo Roster

5 Riya Shrivastava

  • Height 5-7
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Saratoga, Calif.
  • High School Lynbrook
  • Position 2MD
  • Major Computer Science

Biography

Research and STEM Activities:

Completed a software engineering internship at AWS in 2022 working on a full stack project... Completed a summer undergraduate research fellowship (SURF) at Carnegie Observatories in 2021, studying star cluster collisions, black holes, and supernovae... Studied astrophysics at UC Davis through COSMOS program (2018)... Researched variable stars at UC Santa Cruz, created novel algorithm and presented findings at 235th AAS meeting (2019).

Before Caltech:

Academics: National Merit finalist... AP Scholar... Scholar-athlete across 5 seasons for both water polo and swimming... National French contest medalist.

Athletics: Second Team All-League (junior year)... First Team All-League (senior year)... Voted team captain and MVP during senior season.

Personal:

Daughter of Rohit and Rashmi... Older sister to Raina and Raghav... Favorite part about Caltech is the people... Likes being a Caltech athlete because it allows her to play high-level sports and spend time with the team.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021First-Year

  • 5

    2022Sophomore

    ATK
    5'6"
    5
  • 5

    2023Junior

    Center Defender
    5'7"
    5
  • 5

    2024Senior

    Defender
    5'7"
    5