About
I'm John Skiermont, a rising senior at Southlake Carroll High School committed to study economics at Brown University, class of 2031. I'm also committed to play soccer for Brown, a goal I've worked toward for most of my life.
I've always liked making things. It started with art when I was young, and evolved into building tools. When I went through the college recruiting process myself, I saw how confusing and opaque it was for most athletes, so I built AthleteMatch, a platform to help student-athletes find the right college fit. That experience made something click: the problems I care about most are ones I've lived.
Now I'm focused on the intersection of economics, data, and sports. I'm drawn to markets with unusual incentive structures: transfer fees, NIL deals, professional contracts, and to building tools that make financial and economic data easier to reason about.
Eventually I want to work in investment banking or economic research, ideally somewhere that takes sports seriously as a domain. For now I'm building, writing, and trying to get better at both.