Jake became the first Irish diver to win a global junior medal (1m springboard silver) at the 2022 World Junior Championships in Montreal where he was just 16.10 points off gold, and also won 1m bronze at the 2022 European Juniors. A native of Bradford and based in Leeds, the Yorkshire teenager has competed for Ireland since he was 10 and qualifies through his maternal grandmother from Dublin. He made his Irish senior debut at the 2023 European Games, finishing 10th in the 3m final despite being the youngest in the field. He was 44th on his World Championship debut in 2023 and still only 18 at this year’s Worlds in Doha in February where he finished 17th in the semi-finals, not far off the top 12 who got automatic Olympic qualification. Still in with a chance of making Paris through nation places, Jake skipped this summer’s European Championships to continue training and, two days after his 19th birthday, got word of his Olympic qualification.