Jon Sakovich
Olympic athlete
1970 –
Who is Jon Sakovich?
Jonathan Dehe Sakovich 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 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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