Margaret Hedeman

Six-Under 19, 2018; Under 23, 2021-22; Senior, 2023, 2026; Olympic, 2024

Finished fifth in the eight at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Finished third in the eight at the 2024 World Rowing Cup II. Finished second in the eight at the 2023 World Rowing Championships. Won gold in the eight at the 2022 World Rowing Under-23 Championships. Reached the final of the Island Challenge Cup at the 2022 Henley Royal Regatta. Finished ninth in the quadruple sculls at the 2021 World Rowing Under-23 Championships. Won gold in the four at the 2018 World Rowing Junior Championships.

Helped Yale to a fifth-place team finish at the 2022 and 2023 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships. Finished sixth in the varsity eight at the 2023 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships. Finished eighth in the varsity eight at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships. Finished eighth in the varsity eight at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships. Finished second in the under-19 single sculls at the 2017 USRowing Club National Championships. Won gold in the under-17 single sculls at the 2016 USRowing Club National Championships. Raced in Community Rowing’s eight at the 2016-2018 USRowing Youth National Championships.

Margaret as the recipient of Yale University’s 2019 Chris Ernst Award and 2023 Anne Warner Award. She was a 2020, 2022, and 2023 CRCA Scholar Athlete and a 2023 First-Team All-Ivy selection. Margaret was the recipient of Yale's 2023 Robert D. Gries prize for senior thesis in history and was a CRCA Scholar Athlete in 2020, 2022, and 2023. She began rowing in 2014 at Community Rowing, Inc. (CRI) on the Charles River in Boston. The Brachiosaurus is her favorite animal, followed by cows. Margaret is grateful for her two sisters, Catlin and Lizzie, as well as her parents, Rena and Rick. Her host family in Princeton (Jane, Martin, Leif, and Erik) is the best.