Pacific Northwest to Paris: Full list of Washington athletes competing in 2024 Olympic Games

Audrey Kwon and Keana Hunter are part of the eight-woman squad hoping to get Team USA onto the Olympic podium for the first time in 20 years. Both women will be making their first appearances at the Olympics.

Kwon is a Stanford student who grew up in Seattle and took up the sport when she was 8 years old, according to her Team USA bio. She now trains and lives in Los Angeles. Kwon trained with Seattle Synchro Club during her time in western Washington.

Hunter, a graduate of Issaquah High School and Bellevue College, also lives and trains down in Los Angeles. The last time the U.S. had an artistic swimming team qualify for the Olympics was in 2008.

On the hardwood, a legion of men and women will be competing who currently or at one time called Washington state home.

Josh Hawkinson was born in Shoreline and played at Shorewood High School before staying in state and playing collegiately at Washington State University in Pullman. He eventually took his talents to Japan, where he has played professionally since 2017. Hawkinson became a Japanese citizen in 2023 and will play for the nation in the Olympics.

Hawkinson is joined by Rui Hachimura, who grew up in Japan but played collegiately at Gonzaga University, one of the many former Bulldogs who will be on a basketball team in Paris.

Hailey Van Lith, out of Cashmere High School, will be part of the U.S. 3x3 Olympic Team. She was part of a team that won gold at the 3x3 World Cup in 2023 and has played collegiately with the University of Louisville and Louisiana State University.

While Hawkinson and Van Lith will be the only basketball players who were born and raised in Washington, quite a few other athletes from the state's college and professional teams will be in Paris.

Gonzaga head coach Mark Few will be an assistant for the U.S. men's basketball team, which will feature the sport's biggest names like LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry. 

Team Canada has yet to announce its final 12-man roster for the Olympics, but former Gonzaga players Andrew Nembhard and Kelly Olynyk figure to make the final cuts. Nembhard just finished a breakout season with the NBA's Indiana Pacers, while Olynyk spent time with the Utah Jazz and Toronto Raptors in 2023-24.

Filip Petrusev is currently helping Team Serbia prepare for the Olympics after playing two seasons at Gonzaga. Petrusev now plays professionally for Olympiacos Piraeus in Greece.

In women's basketball, Team USA will feature two players with Washington ties. Kelsey Plum became the all-time NCAA leading scorer during her time at the University of Washington before Caitlin Clark snapped the record this past season. Plum is now a two-time WNBA champion with the Las Vegas Aces and previously won a gold medal in the 3x3 competition in Tokyo.

Jewell Loyd has become one of the WNBA's top scorers during her near-decade with the Seattle Storm. The former top draft pick likely will start for Team USA, which hopes to capture an eighth-consecutive gold medal in Paris.

With two gold Olympic medals under her belt from the 2014 and 2018 Games, former Seattle Storm player Breanna Stewart will play for Team USA’s women’s basketball in Paris. Stewart now plays for the New York Liberty.  

Current Storm head coach and former player Noelle Quinn will be an assistant coach for the Canadian women's basketball team in Paris.

Team Australia, affectionately known down under as the "Opals," will have two current Storm players and a former franchise icon on its Olympic roster. Defensive stalwart Ezi Magbegor and sharpshooter Sami Whitcomb both were named to the final roster in early July, along with former WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson, who unretired from the game several years ago and heads to her fifth Olympic Games in 2024 at the age of 43.

Nevin Harrison became the first American to win a gold medal in sprint canoe at the Tokyo Olympics. To make it even more impressive, she was just 19 years old when she won gold. Harrison will be back on Team USA for the 2024 Olympics, representing Roosevelt High School and the city of Seattle.

On the men's side, two UW products will be making a push for gold. Aaron Small and Jonas Ecker both are headed to Paris to compete together in K2, a sprint kayak event with two rowers in each boat. Small was raised in Seattle and Ecker grew up in Bellingham.

Adrienne Lyle, born and raised on Whidbey Island, will be making her third Olympic appearance in Paris. Lyle represented the U.S. Olympic Team for the first time in 2012 and brought a silver medal in Dressage home from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She and her horse, Helix, will again push for a medal in the Dressage event.

Several players with Washington ties will be golfing for international glory. UW golfers CT Pan, Nick Taylor and Carl Yuan are all competing in this summer’s Olympics. Pan, who is from Bellevue, represents Taiwan, Taylor is representing Canada and Yuan is golfing for China.

Jordan Chiles was born in Oregon and trained for much of her youth in Vancouver, Wash. After winning a silver medal in the team event at the Tokyo Olympics and a gold medal at the 2022 World Championships, Chiles will be back on Team USA for the 2024 Olympics.

There will be no shortage of local connections on the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team at the Paris Olympics. Michael Callahan, the men's rowing coach at UW, will also be the head coach for the men's eight boat in Paris. His team will feature four UW rowers: Evan Olson, Pieter Quinton and Chris Carlson, with Rielly Milne serving as the coxswain.

In the women's eight, former Husky Christina Castagna will be in the boat. In the pairs race, UW's Jess Thoennes earned her spot on Team USA after being cut from the women's eight squad. Teal Cohen of UW will be in the quadruple sculls for Team USA.

Former Husky Lori Dauphiny will coach Team USA women’s pair. Dauphiny, a UW graduate, has spent the past 27 years coaching the Princeton women’s open crew. She also coached the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team.

Two-time Olympian Adrienne Martelli, another UW graduate and associate head coach for women’s rowing at UC Berkley, will be the sweep coach for Team USA.

In the double sculls, UW's Ben Davison will be wearing the Red, White and Blue in Paris. Jacob Plihal, who hails from Vashon Island, will be the U.S. representative in the single sculls.

Twins Patrick Rocek and Aisha Rocek, both Huskies, are representing Italy in the lightweight quad scull for both men and women.

Logan Ullrich, who rowed for UW, will represent New Zealand in the coxless four.

Simon Van Dorp and Gert-Jan Van Doorm, both former Huskies, will represent the Netherlands in single sculls and men’s eight, respectively.

Former UW rower Jacob Dawson is representing Great Britain in the men’s eight and fellow former Husky rower Holly Dunford is also representing Great Britain in the women’s eight.

Tabea Schendekehl, a former UW rower, is representing Germany in the quad sculls. Former Husky rower Phoebe Spoors is representing New Zealand in the women’s four.

Danielle Hansen, former UW rower and coach, is representing the USA in women’s PR3 mixed four spare.

Former WSU Cougar Ieva Adomaviciute will row in the women’s pair for Lithuania.

Two members of the National Women's Soccer League's (NWSL) Seattle Reign will be going for gold in Paris. Jordyn Huitema and Quinn will both be part of Team Canada, which won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Quinn was part of that gold medal squad while Huitema was an alternate.

Trinity Rodman attended WSU, but her collegiate career was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rodman turned professional, now playing for the Washington Spirit, and earned a spot on the U.S. Women’s national soccer team.

Josh Atencio, a midfielder for the Seattle Sounders FC, is an alternate for Team USA. 

Matt King, from Snohomish and Glacier Peak High School, will be part of the 4x100 freestyle relay in Paris. The U.S. won the gold medal in this event at the Tokyo Olympics.

Tolu Young, who grew up in University Place and attended Curtis High School, will swim for Fiji at the Paris Olympics.

CJ Allen, who was born in Bremerton and competed collegiately at WSU, will be in the 400-meter hurdles in Paris.

Marisa Howard of Pasco earned her spot in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Olympic Trials. In the same event on the men's side, Kenneth Rooks of Walla Walla finished first at the Trials despite a fall and will be part of Team USA.

Shoe company Brooks, which is headquartered in Seattle, has several athletes from its "Brooks Beasts" team competing in events at the 2024 Olympics. Brandon Miller is in the 800-meter race for Team USA, while Nia Akins is in the same event on the women's side. Josh Kerr is also part of Brooks' team and will represent Great Britain in the 1,500-meter.

Quite a few athletes who went to college at either UW or WSU will be in the Olympics for their respective home countries.

Katie Moon, who trained in Pullman, is representing Team USA in the pole vault.

Charisma Taylor is a former WSU Cougar who will run for the Bahamas in the 100-meter hurdles. Fellow WSU product Maribel Caicedo will also run the 100-meter hurdles for Ecuador.

UW's Sam Tanner will run for New Zealand in the men's 1,500-meter race, as will fellow Husky Kieran Lumb for Team Canada. Jasneet Nijjar from WSU will also be part of Canada's contingent on the 4x400 relay.

Brian Fay, a former Pacific-12 Conference champion at UW, will be with Team Ireland for the 5,000-meter race in Paris. Joining him from the Irish contingent is Sophie O'Sullivan, who is a UW product and will run the 1,500-meter race.

Louie Hinchliffe, who attended WSU, is on Team Great Britain in the men’s 100-meter race.

Gianna Woodruff, who attended UW, is running for Panama in the 400-meter hurdles.

Izzi Batt-Doyle, who ran for UW, is representing Australia in the 5,000-meter race.

Former Husky Tamari Miyashiro is the assistant coach for Team USA’s volleyball squad. Miyashiro earned a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games.