Gators in the 2008 Olympics

[wellerross]

Answer to gatormonkey

Yes, there are other schools that have that many athletes in the Olympics... the school that has the most athletes as far as I know is The University of Tennessee with 17 athletes, 9 male and 8 female. Here is a list of those athletes.

Males:
Jangy Addy - Decathlon (Liberia)
Octavia Alesi - 100m Butterfly (Venezuela)
Andrew Bree - Breaststroke (Ireland)
Anthony Famiglietti - Steeplechase
Gary Kikaya - 400m dash (Congo)
Tom Pappas - Decathlon
Jonas Persson - Freestyle Swimmer (Sweden)
Leigh Smith - Javelin
Jevon Tarantino - Diving


Females:
Monica Abbott - Softball
Tamika Catchings - Basketball
Kara Lawson - Basketball
Christine Magnuson - Swimming
Fabiola Molina - Swimming (Brazil)
Candace Parker - Basketball
Dee Dee Trotter - Track
Rhian Wilkinson - Soccer (Canada)

 

[O-town Gator]

Matt LaPorta won a bronze as a member of our USA baseball team.

 

[O-town Gator]

Overall our GatorOlympians hauled in 14 total medals, 3 of them gold: http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20080825/NEWS/152020/1016&title=Gators_at_the_Games__Final_haul_is_14_medals

 

[Leakfan12]

Overall our GatorOlympians hauled in 14 total medals, 3 of them gold: http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20080825/NEWS/152020/1016&title=Gators_at_the_Games__Final_haul_is_14_medals

Actually five were gold. Locthe won two of them and two bronzes.