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2024-25 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

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Jack Donovan

  • Position Backstroke / Freestyle
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Newcastle, Calif.
  • High School Del Oro H.S.

Biography

2024-25: Three-time individual finalist at 2025 Big 12 Championships in the 50 free (10th, 19.56), 100 back (16th, 48.07) and 100 fly (19th, 47.77)...200 free relay champions at Big 12s (1:17.28)...Swam a personal best and Arizona's third-best season time in the 50 free at Big 12 Championships (19.56)

2023-24: Relay finalist at 2024 Pac-12 Championships in the 200 free relay (1:15.97, 3rd place, NCAA ‘A’ cut)... Swam a personal best at the 2024 Pac-12 Championships in the 50 free (19.60; NCAA B cut).

2022-23: Swam three personal bests at Pac-12's in the 50 free (19.79; NCAA B cut), 100 back (46.61; NCAA B cut) and the 100 fly (47.63)… Swam a personal best in the 200 back (1:49.68) at the Minnesota Invitational.

2021-22: Swam four personal bests at the Pac-12 Championships in the 50 free (20.11), 50 back (22.06), 100 back (47.70; NCAA B cut), and the 200 back (1:49.95). 

Before Arizona: Attended Del Oro High School in Newcastle and lettered two years in swimming...First team All-Conference, All-District and All-Region freshman and sophomore year...Four-time All-American...Also swam for Wolverine Aquatics for ten years under coaches Chris Breitbart, Kainoa Pistorius and Steve Skidmore...Finalist at USA Futures Swimming Championships...USA Swimming Scholastic All-American.
 
Personal: Jack Donovan, son of Bill and Amy Donovan, originally from Newcastle, CA…Has one sister, Abby…Father, Bill, played football for Humboldt...Chose Arizona because “Great swimming and it allowed me to pursue the degree I wanted.” 

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

  • 2022-23Sophomore

    Backstroke / Freestyle
    6'0"
  • 2023-24Junior

    Backstroke / Freestyle
    6'0"
  • 2024-25Graduate Student

    Backstroke / Freestyle
    6'0"
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