Donovan Ramirez

Position:
Jumps
Height:
5-11
Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
Odessa, Texas
High School:
Compass Academy Charter School

2024-2025
Indoors – coming off a full year of medical redshirt, Donovan competed in 4 meets, with early higlights of finishing 10 th at the TTU Red Raider Invitational triple jump and 6 th at the TTU Jarvis Scott Invitational with a personal best leap of 49 1.75/14.98m in the TJ. Finished the indoor season by finishing 4 th in the TJ with a jump of 49-1/14.96m.
Outdoors – competed in 5 meets, opening the season with a 2 nd place finish at the ACU Wes Kittley Invitational with an outdoor personal best of 48-0.5. A slight injury slowed the middle part of the year, but a strong finish to the year saw Donovan finish 5 th in the TJ at the WAC Championship, held at UTA, with a jump of 47-0.75/14.34m.

2023-2024
Indoors and Outdoors – medical redshirt

2022-2023
Indoors – competed in 4 meets for ACU, including finishing 7th the TTU Red Raider Open triple jump, 3rd in the TTU Jarvis Scott long jump, and ended his first indoor season placing 11th in the TJ and 12th in the LJ at the WAC Championship. Outdoors – competed in 4 meets outdoors as well, opening the season at the Wes Kittley Invitational finishing 3rd in the TJ and 6th in the LJ. Followed that by placing 5 th in the TTU Masked Rider TJ and finished his freshman campaign at the WAC Championships – placing 12th in the TJ and 10th in the LJ.

Before ACU
Donovan was 2nd team all-district in basketball as a senior before having a huge T&F season that moved him into the upper echelon of high school jumpers in America. At the Region I-3A meet in the spring of 2022 held at ACU’s Elmer Gray Stadium, he placed 1st in the triple jump and 2nd in the long jump. His triple jump of 49- 10.75 earned him the #10 best jump in the U.S. for high school jumpers in 2022 and his jump of 24-0 in the long jump placed him #52 in the U.S. He later placed 2nd in the LJ and 3rd in the TJ at the 3A state meet. In his HS junior year, he placed 2nd at the 3A state meet in the TJ and narrowly missed going to state in other events by placing 4th in both the LJ and the 110 hurdles. He left Odessa Compass Academy as the school record holder in both the LJ and TJ.

Personal
Graduated in 2022 from Odessa Compass Academy Charter School, where he was President of the National Honor Society. At ACU, Donovan is a Education major with an emphasis in HS History. His parents are Steven and Courtney Ramirez and Cassie Stacey.

Why did you choose ACU? For the opportunity to be surrounded by like-minded believers who were willing to push me to be a better athlete every single day in training.

What is your favorite thing about ACU? My favorite thing has to be the amazing friends that have come into my life. They have allowed me to open myself to new things and created the environment for me to be able to grow as a person.