Makenna Stretz

Overview

Makenna brings a strong mix of competitive pedigree, academic performance, and demonstrated leadership capacity — including winning the 2025 NCAA National Championship and MPSF title at Stanford. In MAP, she contributed meaningfully to a 5-person project focused on Morgan Stanley’s Parametric Custom Core Strategy, conducting market segmentation work and evaluating product viability for high-net-worth athletes and entertainers. She communicates with confidence, consistently interviews well, and shows initiative in live environments.

Beyond athletics, she has meaningful experience across retail operations, nonprofit administration, and venture pitch competitions. In high school she founded and chaired the AAPLE Corporate Giving Committee, raising $110K in scholarship funds — a commercial signal that indicates persuasion ability, resilience, and follow-through. Paired with 550+ hours of community leadership service and strong coursework in economics, managerial accounting, data & CS, she profiles as a young professional with drive, curiosity, and upward momentum.

Strengths

• National Champion athlete with proven competitive discipline and pressure tolerance.
• Strong interview performance across three rounds — polished communication and confidence.
• Hands-on experience designing HNW wealth solutions and evaluating parametric investment strategy fit.
• Leadership under real stakes — raised $110,000 in corporate funding and led 30 peers in pitch execution.
• Versatile background across sales, budgeting, Excel inventory, and operational management.
• Initiative-driven — thrives when given ownership, deadlines, and room to execute creatively.

Areas for Development

• Continue growing formal finance toolset (valuation, modeling, market assessment frameworks).
• Writing and presentation flow can tighten — clarity improves when structure is defined upfront.
• High upside — consistency will scale further as systems and technical reps increase.

Projection

A Round 2–3 MAP prospect with meaningful upside. Makenna has the competitive fire, leadership evidence, and early exposure to HNW wealth work where athlete-to-wealth translation matters. With continued technical development and deeper financial training, she projects as a long-run asset for a wealth management team who values initiative, energy, and client-facing drive — the type who gets better every quarter she’s in seat.