Career Accolades

  • IRCA All-America First Team (2026)
  • IRCA All-America Second Team (2025)
  • All-MPSF (2026)
  • MPSF Freshman of the Year (2025)
  • IRCA Scholar-Athlete (2026)
  • MPSF All-Academic (2026)

As a Sophomore (2026)

  • IRCA All-America First Team
  • All-MPSF
  • IRCA Scholar-Athlete
  • MPSF All-Academic
  • Rowed all 14 races in the 1V8 boat, primarily in the No. 7 seat
    • Among five rowers to race on the 1V8 all season
  • Raced nine times in the No. 7 seat, three at No. 6 and two at No. 8
  • Rowed in the No. 6 seat at the IRA Championships
    • Stanford placed sixth overall, securing its 11th top-six finish in program history and just second since 2010
  • Rowed in the No. 7 seat at the MPSF Championships, placing third

As a Freshman (2025)

  • IRCA All-America Second Team
  • MPSF Freshman of the Year
  • Rowed in 14 of 15 races in the 1V8 boat
  • Was in the No. 7 seat 12 times and the No. 5 seat twice - in heats and the semifinals at the IRA Championships
  • Helped Stanford to ninth place overall at the IRA Championships

International

  • Won gold in the No. 3 seat with Great Britain in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2026 U23 World Championships in Duisburg, Germany
  • A year prior, was stroke for Great Britain in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2025 U23 World Championships in Poznan, Poland, finishing fourth
  • Competed for Great Britain in the quadruple sculls at the 2024 U23 World Championships in St. Catharines, Canada
    • Rowed in the No. 3 seat as the team placed sixth in the A final
  • Selected to the British quadruple sculls team that competed at the 2023 Coupe de la Jeunesse, a regatta comprising 16 European nations
    • Earned silver by rowing in the No. 2 seat for the runner-up British boat at the 2023 Coupe de la Jeunesse  

Prior to Stanford 

  • Won the 2024 Open Championship Singles at the National Schools’ Regatta, the most prestigious race for British single scullers in the kingdom
  • In winning the National Schools in Nottingham, he broke a course record that had stood for 17 years
  • Eighth in the February 2024 trials for the Great Britain U23 team, as the second-fastest U23 sculler at the age of 18
  • Won the B final in the single sculls at the April 2024 Great Britain trials
  • Captured the bronze medal at the British Universities and Colleges Sport regatta, becoming the youngest-ever to medal

Personal

  • Parents are Dawn and James Donovan-Davies
  • Has a sister, Amelie
  • Earned DISE Qualification at Hartpury, a diploma in sporting excellence
  • Suffered with osteomyelitis, which prevented him from competing in sports during his early teenage years
Elliott Donovan-Davies
2025-26