2025-26 Women's Rowing Roster

Mady Novotná

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Breclav, Czech Republic
  • High School Sportovní Gymnázium Pardubice

Biography

2024-25: Sat in the seven seat in the third varsity eight that took down Ohio State and Rutgers… Was in the seven seat of the third varsity eight that defeated Syracuse and Cornell… Sat in the seven seat of the third varsity eight that took down Dartmouth… Was the five seat of the third varsity eight that defeated Princeton… Sat in the five seat in the third varsity eight that took down Harvard-Radcliffe and Boston University… Was in the five seat of the third varsity eight that won a gold medal at the Ivy League Championship.

2023-24: Sat in the bow seat of the third varsity eight that won a bronze medal at the Ivy League Championship.

Before Yale: Won silver and bronze medals at Coupe de la Jeunesse in 2019… Won a bronze medal at European Rowing Indoor Championships 2020 in U19… Won gold medal at the 2020 European Rowing Indoor Championships in 4x500m U19 mixed relay… Fourth-place finish at 2020 European Rowing Junior Championships in Serbia on quadruple scull… Fifth place at 2020 European Coastal Challenge in Italy. 
 
Why Yale? “Yale is the best match for me in what I’m looking for. It allows me to study and row simultaneously at the highest level.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

    5'9"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    5'9"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    5'9"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    5'9"
  • 2024-25Junior

    5'9"
  • 2025-26Senior

    5'9"