Background
He is the grandson of retired corporate executive and civic leader Emory Williams.
He is the grandson of retired corporate executive and civic leader Emory Williams.
Jamie was educated at The American Boychoir School "95, Choate Rosemary Hall, Connecticut "99, and Stanford University "05 from where he has a Bachelor of Science and an Master of Science in Bioengineering. He originally enrolled at Northwestern University, where he began rowing in 2001 before transferring to Stanford. He matriculated in 2005 at Christ Church, Oxford where he studied cardiac energetics and earned a doctoral degree in 2010 from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics.
He attends Johns Hopkins Medical School as part of the National Institutes of Health (United States) Medical Scientist Training Program.
He is currently a diagnostic radiology resident at Johns Hopkins University.
Both universities had extremely strong intakes that year, with Cambridge boasting several world champions and the Oxford crew including Olympic silver medallists Barney Williams and Jake Wetzel. International Rowing He sat in the three seat of the United States Coxless Four, which came 7th at the World Championships in Seville. He occupied the two seat a year later when the Four came 10th at the Olympics in Athens.
After taking a break from international rowing, Jamies competed in the single scull at the World Championships at Dorney Lake, Eton.
He finished 12th. In preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the United States quadruple scull first competed in the 2008 World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland. Olympics World Championships World Cup In the summers of 2006 and 2009, Schroeder competed for his college - Christ Church - in one of Oxford"s annual inter-collegiate competitions, Summer Eights.
In 2006, Christ Church - stroked by Schroeder - rose one place in the bumps charts to fourth. In 2009, the crew, with Schroeder at five, started third, but "bumped" on the first two days of the competition, and finished "Head of the River" for the first time since 1985.
At Oxford University, James was a member of Oxford University Boat Club and took part in the Boat Race in 2006.