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UCLA Sends 57 To 2004 Olympic Games

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Former Bruin, Gail Devers, qualifies for fifth Olympic team.
Keeping up with its unprecedented Olympic tradition, UCLA will send 57 players and coaches to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. UCLA is expected to have several athletes competing for other countries in sports that have not named their teams yet, so please check back periodically for updates to this list.

Over the past nine decades prior to the 2004 Games, 387 men and women athletes, coaches and trainers have represented UCLA in the Summer Olympic Games. The first two Bruin Olympians participated in 1920, just one year after the founding of the university. Edward S. Butler competed in the long jump and Clyde A. Swendsen was a member of the water polo team.

The Bruins have had at least one competitor in every Olympics since 1920 with one exception (1924), and UCLA athletes have won a gold medal in every Olympics since 1932 with the exception of 1980 (boycott). Overall, the Bruins have won 195 medals - 98 gold, 51 silver and 46 bronze.

In 1932, UCLA athletes captured their first gold Olympic medals, winning five gold, one silver and three bronze medals. The gold medals were won by John E. Biby Jr., Richard F. Moore and William H Cooper, three of the 12 crew members of the eight-meter yacht Angelita, skippered by Owen Churchill, and by gymnasts Ray Bass (rope climb) and Dallas Bixler (high bar). Dr. Phillip R. Erenberg earned a silver medal in club swinging, while George G. Jefferson (athletics-pole vault), Thomas F. Connolly (gymnastics-rope climb) and Edward Carmichael (gymnastics-vaulting horse) won bronze medals.

2004 Olympians (57)

SportCountryAthleteEvent
Baseball GreeceNick Theodorou
Mike RiskasAsst. Coach
M. BasketballU.S.A.Larry Brown, former UCLA head coachHead Coach
M. Beach VolleyballU.S.A.Stein Metzger, Jeff Nygaard, Kevin Wong (alternate)
AustraliaMark Williams
NorwayBjorn Maaseide
W. Beach VolleyballU.S.A.Holly McPeak, Elaine Youngs, Annett Davis (alternate), Jenny Johnson Jordan (alternate)
M. GymnasticsU.S.A.Steve McCain alternate
W. GymnasticsU.S.A.Mohini Bhardwaj, Tasha Schwikert (alternate)
CanadaKate Richardson
W. SoccerU.S.A.Joy Fawcett, former UCLA head coach
MexicoIris Mora
SoftballU.S.A.Lisa Fernandez, Amanda Freed, Tairia Mims, Stacey Nuveman, Natasha Watley
AustraliaTanya Harding
M. SwimmingGuamDan O'Keeffe100m fly
W. SwimmingSwedenMalin Svahnstrom800m relay
SingaporeNicolette Teo100m/200m breast
M. TennisBahamasMark Knowles Doubles
PolandMarcin MatkowskiDoubles
Track & FieldU.S.A.Amy Acuffhigh jump
Shelia Burrellheptathlon
Gail Devers100m hurdles
John Godinashot put
Joanna Hayes100m hurdles
Monique Henderson4x400m Relay Pool
Sheena Johnson400m hurdles
Mebrahtom Keflezighi10000m Marathon
Bob Larsen, former UCLA head coachDistance Coach
Michelle Perryheptathlon
Seilala Suadiscus
Trinidad & TobagoAto Boldon100m, 200m, 4x100m Relay
Great BritainMalachi Davis400m, 4x400m Relay
South KoreaYoo Kimpole vault
M. VolleyballU.S.A.Erik Sullivan
W. VolleyballU.S.A.Wiz Bachman
M. Water PoloU.S.A.Brandon Brooks, Brett Ormsby, Adam Wright
W. Water PoloU.S.A.Guy BakerCoach
Robin Beauregard, Gabrielle Domanic (alternate) Natalie Golda, Thalia Munro, Nicolle Payne, Kelly Rulon, Amber Stachowski
AustraliaKelly Heuchan