Former WSU athletes competing at 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris

A composite featuring Butch T. Cougar holding a WSU Cougars flag at the podium for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Seven former WSU athletes will represent six countries in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games (composite featuring images by WSU Photo Services and Isabelle Harsin / Paris 2024).

Seven former Washington State University athletes will represent their countries in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, which officially begin tomorrow in Paris, France.

The group of former WSU athletes will be competing in men’s and women’s track and field, women’s rowing, women’s soccer, and men’s basketball. The Cougar contingent will represent six countries spanning the globe:

  • C.J. Allen, Team USA, track and field
  • Trinity Rodman, Team USA, women’s soccer
  • Maribel Caicedo, Ecuador, track and field
  • Jasneet Nijjar, Canada, track and field
  • Charisma Taylor, The Bahamas, track and field
  • Josh Hawkinson, Japan, men’s basketball
  • Ieva Adomavičiūtė, Lithuania, women’s rowing

More information about the former Cougars representing their countries in this year’s summer Olympics is available on the WSU Athletics website.

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