MIT Intecollegiate Athletics 5/4/11: MIT Intercollegiate Athletics: Saxton-Fox Claims Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year Honor. A student-athlete from Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a major Patriot League honor for the first time on Wednesday as junior Theresa Saxton-Fox was named the Rowing Scholar-Athlete of the Year while also landing on a list of 11 rowers that comprised the sport's inaugural Academic All-Patriot League Team. Joining Fox on the Academic All-Patriot League was junior Allison Simi. The Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year award is the highest honor the League bestows upon a student-athlete in each sport. Student-athletes are nominated by their institution and voted upon by the media relations staff at all participating institutions. Saxton-Fox has a long line of athletic, academic and extracurricular achievements at MIT. The native of Wayland, Mass. has accumulated a 4.9 grade-point average on a 5.0 scale (3.92/4.0 GPA). She serves as President of MIT's Engineers Without Borders, which engineers solutions to issues in developing countries. She has overseen projects on water accessibility, alternative cooking fuels and individual shower units for slums as well as fundraising activities. She was awarded a Public Service Center (PSC) Fellowship to travel to Uganda as the team's project manager, where she worked with local customs officials to import solar panels into Uganda. Saxton-Fox is a researcher at the High Power pumped heat exchanger lab at MIT and a team member in the Design and Manufacturing II Lab.