Donald made his Australian representative debut aged seventeen in 2012 selected in a junior coxless four to contest the 2012
Junior World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. That four rowed to a ninth place finish. In 2017 he rowed in the Australian coxless four at the
World Rowing U23 Championships in Plovdiv and raced to a gold medal and an U23 world championship Donald made his first national senior squad appearances in the Australian men's eight in 2018 at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz and at the WRC III in Lucerne where the Australians took a silver medal 0.14 seconds behind Germany. The stage was set for the close competition that played out at the
2018 World Championships in Plovdiv. In their heat the Australian eight finished 5/100ths of a second behind the USA and then in the final, Germany dominated and took gold but 2/10ths of a second separated 2nd through to 4th and the Australians took silver, a bowball ahead of Great Britain with the US out of the medals. Donald rowed in the bow seat and came home with a silver world championship medal. In 2019 Donald was again selected in the Australian men's eight for the 2019 international representative season. The eight placed 5th at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and 6th at WRC III in Rotterdam. ==References==