Laura Donlevy joined the Stony Brook swimming & diving coaching staff at the beginning of the 2023-24 season as announced by head coach
Mark Anderson. She has since entered her second season with the program in 2024-25.
This past season under the assistance of Donlevy, Stony Brook swimming and diving found their most success at the ECAC Championships, earning 16 top five finishes.
Sara DiStefano,
Natalia Chornomidza, and
Mykayla Lavery swept the 1-meter dive competition as DiStefano captured victory in the 3-meter dive.
Francesca Baber earned four individual wins, as the team of
Michelle Vu,
Brenna Mowrey,
Alanna DePinto, and Baber claimed first place in the 400-freestyle relay. The Seawolves earned their lone win of the season over Manhattan as DiStefano broke the 1-meter dive program record with a score of 304.45. To close out the season at the CAA’s, DePinto captured the 100-breastroke program record with a time of 1:03.99 and
Aili Talcott with the 200-breaststroke program record, logging a time of 2:20.28. Finding success in the pool and in the classroom, the team earned CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honor as
Clara Armstrong and
Sara Baxter were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.
In 2023-24, the Seawolves earned a pair of regular season victories before a second-place finish at the ECAC Championships. Donlevy helped guide the Stony Brook squad to a 3-3 overall record on the season. At the CAA Championships, Baxter, Conway, DePinto, and Vu broke the program record in the 400-medley relay. At the conclusion of the season, Armstrong, Baxter,
Mary Kate Conway, and
Jocelyn Lichwick all earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors as the Seawolves’ squad was selected to the CSCAA Scholar All-America Team.
Donlevy brings prior coaching experience at both the collegiate and high school levels and has worked in education and physical education throughout her career. Prior to joining the Stony Brook staff, she came from The Stony Brook School where she was the aquatics director and the head coach of both the boys and girls varsity swim teams since 2021. She managed all operations of the swim program while also creating a positive team culture that emphasized unity and good sportsmanship.
Under Donlevy's guidance, five athletes broke Stony Brook School records while the girls team placed fourth and the boys team placed seventh at the NYSAIS championships. Nearly all of her athletes posted their best times at the Eastern Championships.
Before The Stony Brook School, Donlevy was a physical education and aquatics teacher at Convent of the Sacred Heart School, an all-girls school in New York City, for seven years. She also served as the middle school swim coach from 2016-19.
She has made previous collegiate coaching stops at Towson (2013-14) and Wagner (2011-13), both in assistant coaching roles. At Towson, she helped the team to a CAA Championship in 2014 and three individuals qualified for the NCAA Championships. At Wagner, she led a pair of top-three finishes at the NEC Championships and also guided the 2013 NEC Co-Outstanding Swimmer of the Year in Amanda Lucia.
She graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a Bachelor's degree in history, where she was a member of the swim team for three years and received a Master's in Secondary and Special Education from Wagner in 2013.
