2025-26 Men's Track and Field Roster

Alex Mader

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown San Francisco, Calif.
  • High School Lick-Wilmerding

Biography

Collegiate Bests:
1500m - 4:00.32
Mile - 4:21.88
3000m: 8:18.63
5000m - 14:22.35
8K (XC) - 25:51.4

2024-2025: Did not compete during cross country... Opened indoors with a PR in mile at River Hawk Invitational, running 4:21.88... Raced 3000m at Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational... Began outdoors at Sam Howell Invitational, running 14:27.00 to place seventh... Set 1500m PR of 4:00.32 at Mark Young Invitational... Placed first in 5000m at UMass Ken O'Brien Pre-Conference Qualifier... Raced 5000m at Ivy League Outdoor Championships, where he ran 14:36.49. 

2023-2024: Began cross country season at Codfish Bowl, where he ran PR of 25:51.4 to place ninth... Indoors, opened up with a 3000m at Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White meet... At Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships, raced 3000m, placing 11th with time of 8:19.83... Began outdoors at Raleigh Relays, where he raced 5000m... Raced 5000m at Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Championships, where he set a PR of 14:22.35.

2022-2023: Did not compete in cross country... Opened up his indoor season by winning 3000m heat at Boston University Valentine Invitational in a new PR of 8:18.63... Placed 16th overall in Ivy League Indoor Championships over 3000m... Outdoors, competed in 1500m at Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet. 

High School: Two-time MVP, cross country and track and field...High school record holder 1600m/3200m/5k...SF prep record holder in 3200m...2021 D5 state champions... Two-time section champions

Why Yale? "I chose Yale because I felt Yale’s culture of embracing multidimensionality would allow me to fully pursue both my athletic and academic goals.”

Personal: Father was on crew team and mother ran cross country at Williams College... Founded an air quality education and relief organization that received $10,000 in funding... Interned on California State Senator Josh Becker’s environmental team... Played piano all four years in high school orchestra.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

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  • 2023-24Sophomore

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  • 2024-25Junior

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  • 2025-26Senior

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