Jon Sakovich

Jon Sakovich
Personal information
Full name Jonathan Dehe Sakovich
Nickname(s) "Jon"
National team  Guam,  United States
Born (1970-06-26) June 26, 1970
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 163 lb (74 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Saipan Swim Club
College team University of Florida

Jonathan Dehe Sakovich (born June 26, 1970) is a former competition swimmer from Saipan who has represented Guam and the United States at international events. At the 1988 Olympics he represented Guam, where he set the Guam records in the 400-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle and 400-meter individual medley, all three of which still stand as of May 2009.

Sakovich accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Randy Reese and coach Skip Foster's Florida Gators swimming and diving teams in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1989 to 1992. During his NCAA career, he received seven All-American honors. Sakovich graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in health and human performance in 1997.

Later in his swimming career, he represented the United States in such international competitions as the 1995 Pan American Games.

As of 2014, he is an assistant swimming coach at the Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida.

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