The University of Alabama will have two current student athletes and 13 alumni competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics bwginning this weekend. Those athletes will represent a total of 13 different countries.
The athletes to have played/currently play for Alabama are as followed:
Kalia Antoniou (Cyprus, swim and dive), Luisa Blanco (Colombia, women’s gymnastics), Kristian Gkolomeev (Greece, swim and dive), Daniel Haugh (USA, men’s hammer throw), Victor Johansson (Sweden, swim and dive), Shelby McEwen (USA, men’s high jump), Anton McKee (Iceland, swim and dive), Stephanie Meadow (Ireland, women’s golf), Kyle Micallef (Malta, swim and dive), Samuel Ogazi (Nigeria, track and field), Shallon Olsen (Canada women’s gymnastics), Tarsis Orogot (Uganda, track and field), Jareem Richards (Trinidad & Tobago, track and field), Erin Routliffe (New Zealand, women’s tennis), Portious Warren (Trinidad & Tobago, women’s shot put)
The two current student athletes are Samuel Ogazi (Nigeria) and Tarsis Orogot (Uganda). Ogazi and Orogot are both sprinters on Alabama’s track and field team. Ogazi will compete in the men’s 400m, while Orogot will be competing in the men’s 200m.
Only two of the 15 athletes are representing the United States: Daniel Haugh in the men’s hammer throw and Shelby McEwen in the men’s high jump.
In gymnastics, Luisa Blanco, who just finished her fifth and final year at Alabama, will be representing Colombia. Blanco won over 30 athletic and academic accolades in her time in Tuscaloosa, including an NCAA championship in 2021 for the balance beam.
Erin Routliffe will be making history by being the Alabama women’s tennis team’s first olympic athlete. She will be representing New Zealand. In her time at UA, Routliffe was a two time doubles champion with partner Maya Jansen and made two NCAA singles championships, as well.
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39 Days
July 23, 1969: Don Hutson, Alabama’s famed end of the 1930s, was named to the all-time college football team, as the sport began its celebration of its 100th year. Hutson was one of 11 players chosen to the squad.
July 23, 1982: Gerald Wallace, who had a long NBA career stemming from 2001-02 to 2014-15, was born on this date in Sylacauga, Ala.
July 23, 2018: Alabama dedicated its latest facility, the dining hall and nutrition center as part of the Mal Moore Athletic Facilities. The state-of-the-art addition of 25,000 square feet cost approximately $15 million. The area where the players used to eat in the football building was converted into a recruiting room the size of a large football, and featured both major individual awards and recent national championship trophies. “When Coach Saban talks about recruits, what they expect when they visit Alabama, they expect us to be the best,” Director of Athletics Greg Byrne said during the dedication.
“When Coach Saban talks about recruits, what they expect when they visit Alabama, they expect us to be the best.”
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