VIDEO: Parade honors the University of South Carolina women’s basketball team
A parade to honor the University of South Carolina women’s basketball NCAA national championship victory was held in downtown Columbia on April 14, 2024.
In epic fashion, former South Carolina track star Quincy Hall won the men’s 400 meters for the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
Hall pulled ahead in the final seconds and finished with a time of 43.40 seconds, just .04 seconds ahead of runner-up Matthew Hudson-Smith of Brittan.
Hall, who turned 26 last week and is originally from Kansas City, ran for the Gamecocks beginning in the 2019 indoor season after starting his college career at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. In his first season in Columbia, he set a new program record in the indoor 400. He was the 2019 outdoor NCAA champion in the 400 hurdles and was named an indoor All-American in the 400 in 2020.
This marks the first individual gold medal for any former South Carolina athlete at the 2024 Olympics. Former Gamecocks basketball star A’ja Wilson advanced to the quarterfinals with Team USA and is in position for her second straight gold medal, the eighth straight for the U.S. women’s team.
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Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at [email protected] and follow her on X, formerly known as Twitter, @Lulukesin
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