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Sun Devil Swimming Association's Ron Johnson Men's Swimming Scholarship

Sun Devil Swimming Association's Ron Johnson Men's Swimming Scholarship

Learn more about your impact

When you give to the Ron Johnson Men's Swimming Scholarship, you provide scholarship support for student-athletes and honor the memory of Johnson, who served as head coach for 18 years, from 1976 to 1993. Under Johnson, who died in 2009, the men's program finished in the top 10 six times.

Impact of Donor Support

  • The cost for an out-of-state student-athlete to attend ASU for one year is $71,660 on average between tuition, team travel, equipment, sports medicine, food and nutrition and tutoring/academic resources.
  • Arizona State ranked No. 1 in the Pac-12 Conference for the second year in a row in 2023 for Academic Progress Rating which tracks achievement in the classroom year over year ahead of Stanford, Cal, USC and UCLA.
  • Some more metrics that show just how much these hard-working student-athletes have achieved with your support: 3.3 average GPA (fall 2022), 76% of student-athletes received “Scholar Baller” status (3.0 GPA or higher), 110 student-athletes with a 4.0 GPA and 138 Academic All-Americans since 2000, which ranks second in the Pac-12 during that stretch.

Our family believes in giving back and sharing the blessings we have received financially and through our time."

Dave Derminio

’74 BS in business, former ASU golfer who supports student-athletes through the Derminio Family Sun Devil Golf Scholarship

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