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Maddie Donohoe

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Lights, Camera, Action: Olympian Erica Sullivan Talks About College Swimming, Paris 2024 & A Career In Film
The last time Erica Sullivan swam on the world stage, she won an Olympic silver medal in the inaugural women’s 1,500-meter freestyle at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Her teammate, Katie Ledecky, won the historic race and could have easily overshadowed ...
Oct 25, 2023
The Beat Goes On: Olympic Silver Medalist Jay Litherland Talks Swimming & Making Music
Ask Jay Litherland for his lucky number, and he might say 3. The 28-year-old Olympic silver medalist is one of triplets and has citizenship in three countries. His dad, Andrew Litherland, is from New Zealand; mom Chizuko is from Japan, where the triple...
Oct 24, 2023

Athlete Bio

Height

5'11"

Hometown

Annandale, VA

Education

Bishop O'Connell High School (Arlington, Va.) ‘18 University of Virginia (verbally committed in 2018)

Personal

Daughter of Susan and Chris Donohoe...Started swimming at 4 so she could swim at the neighborhood pool...Played soccer, basketball and dance...At 11 was diagnosed with alopecia, an autoimmune system disease that targets hair...Most prized possession are family pictures...Hobbies include painting, traveling and spending time with her friends.

Career Highlights

2018 Speedo Champions Series – North, 1st (800m free, 400m free, 1,500 free)
Potomac Valley Senior Short Course Championships, 1st (1,650yd free, 1,000yd free, 200yd free, 200 back)
2017 USA Swimming Winter National Championships, 3rd (1,650yd freestyle)