Bio
Infielder Jordan Donahue makes the trek to Sioux City all the way from Hawaii, where the native of Miliani, O’ahu spent the last four seasons playing for the University of Hawaii. In four years with the Rainbow Warriors, Donahue, who bats left and throws right, played in 183 games, slashing a line of .302/.401/.403 with five home runs and 89 RBI. He also swiped 31 bases in his four-year career at Hawaii.
In 2025, Donahue played 38 games, making 37 starts at shortstop while hitting .295 with three homers and 22 RBI with the Warriors. He finished the season strong on an eight-game hitting streak with four multi-hit games and was named Big West Player of the Week the last home series weekend of the year. He would hit .455 (15-for-33) over the final eight games with three home runs while driving in 12 runs. Donahue belted a grand slam home run for UH to propel the team into the Big West postseason in the final regular-season game. He would finish the season being named to the Big West Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
His Junior season, Donahue finished second on the team at the plate, hitting .349, and was the team leader with 68 hits. He would hit a pair of long balls and knock in 30 runs while finishing third on the team, scoring 43 runs and stealing 10 bases in 51 games. Donahue would start 50 games at short for Hawaii in 2024 and would post an 18-game hitting streak during the season, the fourth longest ever by a UH hitter and the longest since 1998.
In 2023 Donahue made 41 starts at shortstop and would appear in a total of 45 games at UH. He would hit .246 with 17 RBI while scoring 30 runs. Donahue was lethal at home, hitting. .324 with 12 RBI on the island for the University of Hawaii. He would finish his sophomore season by being named to the Big West Academic Honor Roll and Big West Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
Donahue would arrive on the University of Hawaii campus for his red-shirt Freshman season in 2022 from Oregon State University. He would hit .298–good for second on the team—in 49 games with 20 RBI for Hawaii. He would spend one season at Oregon State in 2021 but was as a red shirt did not ever play for the Beavers.
During his college career, Donahue played summer ball in 2021 with Bend of the West Coast League, La Crosse in 2022 and 2023 in the Northwoods League, and at Mahoning Valley in the Major League Draft League in 2024. Over the course of his summer seasons, he played in 93 games, hitting .251 with 33 RBI with a slash line of .251/.403/.281.
A native of Honolulu, Donahue attended Damien High School where he helped lead the school to the 2018 state championship and runner up in 2017. In his senior season in 2018, he led the state of Hawaii in hits, runs and stolen bases. Donahue was named the Hawaii D-II Player of the Year in 2018 while also winning the local Interscholastic League of Honolulu and team’s state crown. While at the University of Hawaii he was joined on the team by his cousin Kyson Donahue, and his brother Christian played at Oregon State and played in the Chicago Cubs organization. His father Timo played in the Cleveland system after a career at the University of Washington.