Pac-12 represented by 314 Olympians at Tokyo Games

FULL LIST OF PAC-12 TOKYO OLYMPIANS (SORTABLE)

SAN FRANCISCO – Constructing upon its unparalleled Olympic historical past, the Pac-12 might be represented by 314 previous, current and future college students and present coaches competing on the 2020 Olympic Video games in Tokyo. The entire variety of Olympic athletes, which incorporates representatives from each Pac-12 establishment, leads all conferences.

The Pac-12’s current total of 314 competing athletes is greater than all however 11 of the Nationwide Olympic Committee delegations collaborating within the Video games (United States, Japan, Australia, Germany, China, France, Nice Britain, Italy, Canada, Russian Olympic Committee, Spain). In all, Convention-affiliated athletes will symbolize 52 Nationwide Olympic Committees in 28 sports activities. When together with alternate athletes and training staffs, the dimensions of the Pac-12 delegation grows to 359.

Extra Convention athletes will compete for the USA in Tokyo than some other Nationwide Olympic Committee. Of the 613 athletes on the U.S. Olympic Staff, 122 are previous, current or future college students of Pac-12 member establishments, making up 20 % of the Staff USA roster. These 122 college students embody 112 who competed or are slated to compete on the varsity stage whereas an undergraduate and 6 club-sport athletes.

Along with the USA, the Pac-12 could have a minimum of 10 competing athletes on the rosters of three different Nationwide Olympic Committees in Canada (30), Australia (25) and Italy (10).

Of the 314 Pac-12 Olympians throughout 28 sports activities, 53 will compete in observe and area, 51 in swimming, 41 in water polo, 39 in rowing, 20 in softball, 19 in basketball, 16 in golf and 11 in soccer. Amongst quite a lot of notable storylines, softball is again on the Olympics for the primary time since 2008 and options six groups with 15-person rosters, making the Convention accountable for 22.2 % of all softball Olympians in Tokyo. The truth is, of the Pac-12’s 314 whole Olympians, 191 are girls (60.8 %).

Each Pac-12 establishment is sending a minimum of 4 Olympic athletes to Tokyo, not together with alternates. USC has probably the most Olympians competing with 62, adopted by STANFORD (53), CALIFORNIA (46), UCLA (39), WASHINGTON (31), ARIZONA STATE (23), ARIZONA (21), OREGON (19), UTAH (7), COLORADO (5), OREGON STATE (4) and WASHINGTON STATE (4). Relating to the U.S. Olympic Staff, there are ten colleges which have 10 or extra student-athletes competing in Tokyo and half are from the Pac-12 in Stanford, UCLA, California, USC and Oregon.

Including in alternate athletes and members of teaching staffs, USC has the biggest delegation amongst Pac-12 colleges with 64, adopted by Stanford (63), California (54), UCLA (49) and Washington (35). The Pac-12 might be represented by 24 former athletes and present coaches who will function coaches for groups and particular person Olympians on the Video games. Eight present Pac-12 coaches and former Pac-12 student-athletes might be head coaches in Tokyo, together with six for Staff USA in California’s Dave Durden (males’s swimming), Stanford’s Thom Glielmi (males’s gymnastics), UCLA’s Karch Kiraly (girls’s volleyball), UCLA’s Adam Krikorian (girls’s water polo), Stanford’s Greg Meehan (girls’s swimming) and UCLA’s John Speraw (males’s volleyball).

Whereas the Opening Ceremony will happen Friday, July 23, competitors for the Pac-12 begins this night with softball and ladies’s soccer getting underway. The Convention could have representatives in every of the three softball video games on faucet beginning with Australia and Japan at 5 p.m. PT, adopted by the USA in opposition to Italy at 8 p.m. PT and Mexico in opposition to Canada at 11 p.m. PT. Pac-12 athletes might be on the sector in three of the six girls’s soccer video games scheduled on the primary day of Olympic competitors. America faces Sweden at 1:30 a.m. PT, Canada takes on Japan at 3:30 a.m. PT and Australia and New Zealand match up at 4:30 a.m. PT.

Three Pac-12 Olympians are at present scheduled to hold their delegation’s flag through the Parade of Nations in Friday’s Opening Ceremony: USC swimmers Robert Glinta of Romania and Yakov Toumarkin of Israel, and Arizona swimmer Felicity Passon for the Seychelles.

The Pac-12 is coming off an immensely successful Summer Games five years ago in Rio. Counting medals gained as a part of the identical relay, boat or group as one collective medal, athletes with Pac-12 ties gained 55 medals in 12 sports activities in Rio, together with 25 golds. If the Convention was a rustic, it could have completed fifth within the total medal rely behind Russia (56) and fourth in gold medals after Nice Britain (27) and China (26).