2025-26 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Keaton Jones

  • Events Backstroke/Multi
  • Height/Weight 6-3 / 200
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Gilbert, Arizona
  • High School Higley HS
  • Major Undeclared
  • Instagram keatonjones_swim

Biography

Accolades
  • ACC team championship (2025)
  • 3x CSCAA All-American
    • 2025: 200 back
    • 2024: 200 back, 200 free
At Cal
2024-25 (So.) 
  • Swam in six event during 2024-25 season
  • Had eight individual top five finishes
  • Finished fifth in the 200 back at the ACC Championships (1:39.81)
  • Posted two NCAA B-times during the season: 
    • 500 free (4:16.76) at Minnesota Invitational
    • 200 back (1:39.76) at Minnesota Invitational
    • 200 free (1:32.97) at ACC Championships
  • Recorded a personal best in two events at NCAA Championships
    • 500 free (4:13.62)
    • 200 back (1:38.29)
  • Placed 9th in the 200 back at NCAAs
2023-24 (Fr.) 
  • Placed 10th in the 200 back at the NCAA Championships (1:38.46)
  • Finished 9th in the 200 free at NCAAs (1:34.91)
  • Won the 500 free in a dual meet against Arizona 
  • Took second in the 200 back at the Minnesota Invitational (1:40.23) 
High School/Club/National/International
  • Participated at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore as a member of Team USA
  • Had two top five finishes at the 2025 USA Swimming National Championships
    • 100 back - 4th (53.79)
    • 200 back - 2nd (1:54.85)
  • Competed in the 200 back for Team USA at the 2024 Summer Olympics and took fifth place with a time of 1:55.39
  • Graduated from Higley High School in Gilbert, Ariz. 
  • Named the No. 5 recruit in SwimSwam.com's "Way Too Early List of Top-20 Boys"
  • Named the No. 9 overall recruit for the 2023 class by SwimSwam.com. 
  • Won gold in the 200m backstroke at the TYR Pro Swim Series on May 19 
    • Defeated Cal alum, Ryan Murphy 
  • Became the first American to break an ice swimming world record
    • Set records in the 50m backstroke and 100m butterfly at the 5th Ice Swimming World Championships this week in Samoens, France.
  • Two-time Division I Arizona Swimmer of the Year
  • Set a USA Swimming National Age Group Record in the 13-14 200-backstroke as a freshman, qualifying as one of the youngest at the Olympic Trials in 2021.
  • He won at the Junior Nationals.
  • He medaled at the Junior Pan Pacs in August 2022.
  • Named to the Junior National Team three years in a row.
  • Holds all of Higley's school records. 
  • Swam Swim Neptune and coach Alex Popa
 
Personal
  • Full name is Jackson Keaton Jones
  • Born Oct. 13, 2004. 
  • Parents are Elizabeth and Randy Jones. 
  • Has one sister. 
  • His grandfather played football for the Oklahoma Sooners
  • hobbies include rubix cubes, traveling, and eating good food. 

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

    Backstroke/Multi
    6'3" 200 lbs
  • 2024-25Sophomore

    Backstroke/Multi
    6'3" 200 lbs
  • 2025-26Junior

    Backstroke/Multi
    6'3" 200 lbs