2025 Women's Rowing Roster
Roster
Jayden Schmaltz
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Lakeshore
- Hometown:
- Stevensville, Mich.
2025 (Senior): CRCA National Scholar-Athlete Award recipient … Academic All-Big Ten … In the 2V8, finished second in its semifinal heat (7:02.44) to advance to the A Final, where it finished sixth (6:48.24) at the at the Sunshine State Invitational (3/28-29) … At Eastern Michigan (4/5), earned an open-water victory over the hosts (6:36.6) in the second varsity eight … Was in the second varsity eight at the Big Ten Invitational (4/18-19), finishing fourth by four-tenths of a second in the first race, ( 6:39.374) – ahead of Ohio State and SMU; MSU tied for fifth in a dead heat in its second race with Clemson ( 6:43.569) and rebounded with a third-place heat finish on Saturday morning in a time of 6:46.077 behind Oklahoma and SMU … Clocked in a time of 7:47.47, raced in the second varsity eight and finished third to Indiana and a length back on Notre Dame at the Dale England Cup (4/26) … In the second varsity eight at IRA sprints (5/4), took the victory in the petite final (7:16.653, open water over second-place Drexel) after narrowly missing the grand final in the morning heats … In the 2V8, won the Petite Final at the Big Ten Championships (5/17-18), finishing seventh overall in a time of 6:33.436, a full second ahead of UCLA (6:34.420).
2024 (Sophomore): Academic All-Big Ten … Advanced to the Grand final in the Varsity Eight at the Sunshine State Invitational (3/29-30) after a fourth-place semifinal finish (7:14.14), and then took sixth in the Grand Final (6:44.17) ... In the varsity eight, finished second to host Michigan (6:45.96) (4/6) ... In the varsity eight, finished fourth to Alabama, Wisconsin and Clemson (6:47.34), third behind Indiana and Notre Dame and ahead of SMU (6:47.79), and fourth ahead of Oklahoma (6:37.81) at the Big Ten Invitational (4/19-20) ... At Indiana for the Dale England Cup (4/27), finished second to host Indiana in the varsity eight (6:55.3) ... In the varsity eight at Sprints (5/5), finished fourth in the morning prelims behind Northeastern, Columbia and Rhode Island (7:08.34) and finished fourth in the petite final (7:16.82) behind George Washington, URI, and Boston College ... In the varsity eight, finished sixth at the Big Ten Championships (5/19), clocked in a time of 6:33.221 .
Prior to MSU: Four-year member of the Lakeshore track & field team … Played three years of volleyball and two years of basketball … Captain of the cross-country team her senior year.
Personal: Daughter of Shelly and Kenneth Schmaltz … Has a brother, Jackson and a sister, Jossalyn … Majoring in environmental engineering and aspires to help find new ways to reduce pollution and create a healthier, more sustainable environment … Has run two half-marathons with her father.
