Mike Donahoe '79

A 6-foot-4 floor general at the guard position, Dr. Mike Donahoe
helped the Grove City College men's basketball team earn two NCAA Division III
Championship Tournament invitations during his career.
As a senior in
1978-79, Donahoe helped the Wolverines advance to the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional
by leading the team in both scoring and assists. He averaged 14.2 points per
game that year and concluded his career as the ninth-leading scorer in program
history with 1,051 points.
The Mount Lebanon, Pa., product earned
All-Tournament honors as a senior at the NCAA Tournament at Albright College in
Reading, Pa. Under the direction of head coach John Barr, Grove City finished
the season with 18 victories, the second-most in program history.
That
year, Donahoe became Grove City's initial CoSIDA First Team Academic
All-American in men's basketball.
As a freshman during the 1975-76
season, Donahoe helped Grove City to a 16-6 overall record and the program's
first NCAA Division III Tournament invitation. A four-year starter for Grove
City, he led the Wolverines in assists in each of his four seasons.
Grove
City compiled a 57-35 overall record during his four years, including 28 wins
against scholarship-level programs. He is one of only a handful of Wolverine
athletes to have competed in multiple NCAA Tournaments.
Donahoe capped
his career at the College by earning Sportsman of the Year for 1978-79. Donahoe
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology and earned his medical degree at
Hahnemann University in 1983.
He works as associate chief for clinical
programs in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at
the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.