Andrew Donlin

He played American football, basketball and baseball for the Wayzata High School.

He attend the United States Air Force Academy in 2011.

He attended at walk-on tryout for the football team they encouraged him that he should play handball. Later he joined the USAFA Team Handball.

In 2012 he played the 2019 IHF Trophy Tournament PATHF–North America Zone in Mexico City with the United States national junior handball team. They lost the small final 38–40 against Canada.

In 2014 he became top scorer with 27 goals at the 2014 USA Team Handball College Nationals - Men's Division. They won the bronze medal.

At the 2015 Summer Universiade the USAFA Team Handball club represented the national team. He was captain of the team. They had additionally one student from the Colorado State University.[1][2] The were 13th out of 13 teams.

He finished the academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management.

In July 2015 after graduation he was assigned as Acquisition Program Manager at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles.

In 2016 he made his United States national handball team debut at the 2016 Pan American Men's Handball Championship. The team reached the eight place out of 12. His United States national beach handball team was at the same year at the 2016 Beach Handball World Championships this was the first World Championships appearance for the US and Donlin was the top scorer of the team.

At the 2018 Pan American Men's Beach Handball Championship he was the top scorer of the tournament and the team got the bronze medal.

He was in sixth in scoring at the 2018 Men's Beach Handball World Championships.

He played for the Los Angeles THC at the 2019 USA Team Handball Nationals - Men's Open Division (Winner).

In November 2018 he became member of the United States Air Force World Class Athlete Program.

In December 2018 he played his first game for TSV Bayer Dormagen (DE).[3]

He played at the 2019 Pan American Games.

They won the 2019 Nor.Ca. Men's Beach Handball Championship which qualified for the 2019 World Beach Games The team were 5th placed at the 2019 IHF Emerging Nations Championship.

He played for the Los Angeles THC at the 2019 North American and the Caribbean Senior Club Championship (3th) and 2019 USA Team Handball Nationals - Men's Elite Division (4th).

In August 2019 he joined CB Ademar León a professional Liga ASOBAL club. He became the first American handball player how played at a European international league the 2019–20 EHF Cup. They were eliminated in the group stage.

In 2020 he was awarded with the 2019 United States Air Force Athlete of the Year title.

He is the oldest of four children and his sister, Colleen Donlin, is a NCAA Division I swimmer at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 2020 he extended his contract. The club doesn't pay him anything because he is payed via the World Class Athlete Program.[4]

• Profile at USA Team Handball
• Profile at European Handball Federation
• Profile at United States Air Force World Class Athlete Program
• Profile at LinkedIn