Updated: 8:50 PM EDT Jul 20, 2021
WLWT Digital Staff
WLWT Digital Staff
The pandemic-delayed 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo are almost upon us. Dozens of local athletes are vying for their shot at Olympic glory. Below is our working list of athletes from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. The athletes are listed alphabetically, by state. We'll be updating their bios periodically as well.NOTE: We'll be updating this list throughout the coming weeks. Have an athlete we missed? Shoot us a note at web@wlwt.com.OHIOZach Apple: SwimmingBirthplace: Trenton, OhioHometown: Trenton, Ohio Current residence: Washington, D.C.Zach Apple will compete in the 100-meter freestyle at the summer games.An Edgewood High School graduate, the 24-year-old will compete in his first Olympics.Apple finished second in the 100 free at 47.72 during the qualifiers, behind Caeleb Dressel.Adelaide Aquilla: Track and FieldBirthplace: Rocky River, OhioHometown: Rocky River, OhioCurrent residence: Columbus, OhioHunter Armstrong: SwimmingBirthplace: Dover, OhioHometown: Dover, OhioCurrent residence: Dover, OhioAnavia Battle: Track and FieldBirthplace: Inkster, MichiganHometown: Inkster, MichiganCurrent residence: Columbus, OhioSimone Biles: GymnasticsBirthplace: Columbus, OhioHometown: Spring, TexasCurrent residence: Spring, TexasYes, the GOAT has Ohio ties. Born in Columbus, reigning Olympic champion Biles says she's aware of the pressure and she welcomes it.It's a delicate dance, one that will take center stage when the 24-year-old American steps in front of the world in Tokyo. No pressure. All she has to do is somehow one-up her staggering performance in Rio de Janeiro, when she won five medals (including four gold) and entered the rarified air of Olympic royalty reserved for the likes of Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Nadia Comaneci.Yes, it's a lot. Then again, whatever bar is set for her by others pales in comparison to the bar Biles sets for herself. It's why she found herself in tears at the U.S. Olympic Trials, when an off night in the finals left her frustrated and angry.“I feel like anything rather than my best will tick me off,” Biles said.Nick Bruce: CyclingBirthplace: Youngstown, OhioHometown: Youngstown, OhioCurrent residence: Youngstown, OhioBruce, a BMX biker, started riding at 10 years old. He's known for landing the first flair tailwhip to tailwhip back (flair windshield wiper) and for landing the first 360 double tailwhip to downside tailwhipMindy Cook: GoalballBirthplace: Celina, OhioHometown: Columbus, OhioCollege: Ohio State University In 2016, a co-worker invited Mindy to a goalball practice at the Ohio State School for the Blind. She attended her first goalball tournament in Michigan as a pool player in 2017 and fell in love with the sport and the goalball community at that tournament and has been playing ever sinceMegan Courtney: Volleyball (alternate)Birthplace: Dayton, OhioChristina Clemon: Track and fieldCollege: Ohio State UniversityAnnette Echikunwoke: Track and FieldCollege: University of Cincinnati Former University of Cincinnati track and field national champion Annette Echikunwoke qualified for a spot on the Nigerian Olympic Team for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.She broke her own African record and threw a personal best in the hammer throw when she threw 75.49 meters on May 22, 2021, in Tucson, Arizona. It also was an Olympic qualification mark, qualifying her for the Tokyo Olympics next month.She went on to compete in the hammer event at the Nigerian national trials, where she finished in first with a 72.07 meter throw, winning her first national trials title.Echikunwoke won the 2017 NCAA Indoor Track and Field title in the weight throw, becoming only the fifth individual national champion in Bearcats history. All four of UC's previous individual national titles came in the swimming pool, making her the only track and field national champion in school history.Echikunwoke currently is a volunteer coach for the Bearcats.Tom Davis: CyclingBirthplace: Montpelier, OhioHometown: Fremont, IndianaA Paralympian, Davis is a combat-wounded veteran who has been cycling since 2021. He joined the U.S. Army in 2002 and reached the rank of Staff Sergeant. On June 3, 2006, he rode shotgun in a Humvee as it drove through Ramadi, the most dangerous city in Iraq at the time. While turning, the truck ran over an improvised explosive device. The blast threw the truck two stories in the air.Taylor Farmer: ShootingBirthplace: Toledo, OhioHometown: Castalia, OhioThe 2018 USA Shooting Paralympic Athlete of the Year, Farmer shot her first pistol in 2012. She's a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado SpringsJenna Fesemyer: Track and FieldBirthplace: Akron, OhioHometown: Ravenna, OhioFesemyer, a triplet, was born without a left leg and hip socket because of a rare congenital disease called proximal femoral focal deficiency. She became involved in wheelchair track in 2013 when the Ohio High School Athletic Association added wheelchair events to the state track meet.Nate Fish: Coach, BaseballCollege: University of Cincinnati Former Bearcats baseball player Nate Fish will head to Tokyo as the third-base coach for the Israeli National Baseball Team.Fish, dubbed the most interesting man in baseball, has played and coached in more than 20 countries since playing for UC from 1999-2002.Most recently the manager of the Savannah Bananas Premier Team, Fish has spent significant time in Israel as the director of the national baseball program.He coached for Israel during its fifth-place finish in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.Todd Frazier: BaseballFormerly of the Cincinnati RedsFrazier was a fan favorite during his stint with the Cincinnati Reds (2011-2015), even winning the 2015 MLB Home Run Derby on his home field in Cincinnati. After 11 MLB seasons, Frazier was designated for assignment by the Pittsburgh Pirates. Vanessa Gilles: SoccerCollege: University of Cincinnati Former University of Cincinnati soccer standout Vanessa Gilles was one of 18 athletes nominated to represent Canada for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.Gilles, a center back with the national team, is one of the most decorated players in UC women's soccer history.She will make her Olympic debut in July.Gilles has six previous caps with the Canadian national team, including five starts. The 2017 American Athletic Conference Co-Defensive Player of the Year plays professionally with Girondins de Bordeaux in France's top division.Anthony Gose: BaseballBirthplace: Bellflower, CaliforniaHometown: Bellflower, CaliforniaCurrent residence: Columbus, OhioBlake Haxton: RowingBirthplace: Columbus, OhioHometown: Columbus, OhioCollege: Ohio State UniversityHaxton chose rowing in high school when his friends and family really wanted him to give it a try. He gave in a was hooked within a few weeks. He contracted necrotizing fasciitis in the spring of his senior year of high school. The infection and subsequent complications required surgeons to amputate his legs. He lists making the U.S. National Team as his most memorable achievement.Max Holt: VolleyballBirthplace: Cincinnati, OhioHometown: Cincinnati, OhioCurrent residence: Orange County, California Max Holt has earned a spot on the United States men’s volleyball squad.It will be the second Olympic appearance for the Purcell Marian High School graduate. Holt was inducted into his high school’s athletic hall of fame in 2017.He previously won a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.Carlin Isles: RugbyBirthplace: Akron, OhioHometown: Massillon, OhioCurrent residence: Chula Vista, California Reggie Jagers: Track and FieldBirthplace: Cleveland, OhioHometown: Cleveland, OhioCurrent residence: Cleveland, OhioDelante "Tiger" Johnson: BoxingBirthplace: Cleveland, OhioHometown: Cleveland, OhioCurrent residence: Cleveland, Ohio Oshae Jones: BoxingBirthplace: Toledo, OhioHometown: Toledo, OhioCurrent residence: Colorado Springs, ColoradoToledo-native Oshae Jones is heading to her first Olympic games as part of the U.S. Women’s Boxing team.She’s now just a few fights away from standing on that top step with a gold medal around her neck. For her, this climb all started while young.“It was my first day, but I just naturally beat her with a jab like, that was all I knew,” Jones said.Jones never knew her calling was in the ring until her dad told her one day at the gym to “wrap up.”“He showed me how to wrap up. He showed me how to put them the wraps on my knuckles. Then he made me spar a girl! And she was there for like two years already,” Jones said.Jones was a natural out of the gate. Five years later, her career was taking off climbing the ranks and the organizations.“My first year, which was 2016-2017, my first elite year I went to Nationals. So, they say if I do this, like, three more times till the Olympics, then I can go. So, I was just like, 'Oh, why not,' you know? I'm already winning, why not really, you know, put my best foot forward,” Jones said.Jones says while growing up, it wasn't hard for her to avoid trouble, but it was always nearby. Her experiences in the ring will allow her to change what's going on outside of it.“I'm just not satisfied with the lifestyle that I have right now. Seeing what I'm around or the gang-banging and the drugs, I just want a better life for me and my family so that's motivation,” Jones said.Emmy Kaiser: Wheelchair TennisBirthplace: CincinnatiHometown: Ft. Mitchell, Ky.High School: Saint Henry District High School College: Thomas More College At the age of 5, Kaiser found wheelchair tennis when organizers at a local wheelchair tennis exhibition handed her a tennis racket. She resides at Fort Mitchell, Kentucky and is living with spina bifida.Lee Kiefer: FencingBirthplace: Cleveland, OhioHometown: Lexington, KentuckyCurrent residence: Lexington, KentuckyMark Kolozsvary: BaseballPlays within Cincinnati Reds organizationA catcher, Kolozsvary was drafted by Cincinnati in the seventh round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft.He was assigned to the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts to begin the 2021 season.Joe Kovacs: Track and fieldBirthplace: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Hometown: Nazareth, PennsylvaniaCurrent residence: Columbus, OhioHenry Leverett: ShootingBirthplace: Bainbridge, GeorgiaHometown: Bainbridge, GeorgiaCurrent residence: Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State University)Jack Leverett II: ShootingBirthplace: Bainbridge, GeorgiaHometown: Bainbridge, GeorgiaCurrent residence: Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State University)Rose Lavelle: SoccerBirthplace: Cincinnati, OhioHometown: Cincinnati, OhioCurrent residence: Tacoma, WashingtonCincinnati native Rose Lavelle is heading to Tokyo with the U.S. Olympic women's soccer team. U.S. women’s national team head coach Vlatko Andonovski named the 18-player roster for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.Eleven players who were on the USA’s roster for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil make a return, while 17 players who were members of the USA’s 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup championship team were named to the roster for Tokyo.Lavelle, a Mount Notre Dame alumna, who was a breakout star at the 2019 World Cup, will be a first-time Olympian, along with Abby Dahlkemper, Tierna Davidson, Emily Sonnett, Adrianna Franch and sisters, Sam and Kristie Mewis.Kevin Love: BasketballBirthplace: Santa Monica, California Hometown: Lake Oswego, OregonCurrent residence: Cleveland, OhioBrittni Mason: Track and FieldBirthplace: Cleveland, OhioHometown: Richmond Heights, OhioBorn with Erb's Palsy affecting her left shoulder and arm, Mason played a wide range of sports while growing up in northeast Ohio, such as gymnastics, swimming, dance, basketball and track.Derrick Mein: ShootingBirthplace: Paola, KansasHometown: Paola, KansasCurrent residence: Marengo, OhioClayton Murphy: Track and FieldBirthplace: Greenville, OhioHometown: Akron, OhioCurrent residence: Akron, OhioKatie Nageotte: Track and FieldBirthplace: Cleveland, OhioHometown: Olmsted Falls, OhioCurrent residence: Pullman, WashingtonGrace Ann Norman: Paratriathlon Hometown: Jamestown, OhioA 2016 Paralympic Gold Medalist, Grace was born with congenital constriction band syndrome in her left leg at birth, which resulted in the amputation of her left leg and right big toe below the knee when she was young. Norman competed in track & field and cross country in high school, where she became the first female amputee to finish on the podium at a high school track & field state championship.Duke Ragan: BoxingBirthplace: Cincinnati, OhioHometown: Cincinnati, OhioCurrent residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado Duke Ragan has been fighting for this moment his entire life.“I FaceTimed my mom and told her dreams come true,” Ragan said. “I told her I'm going to the Olympics and she just busted out in tears.”Ragan grew up in Cincinnati's West End before graduating from Western Hills High School in 2015. Ragan has been swinging, training and winning for years, now punching his ticket to the Olympics by earning a spot on Team USA.“I got the call saying that I'm qualified and it's like a dream come true. This is all I ever wanted, it was always my goal to go to the Olympics, especially to win gold," Ragan said.The goal is to win gold, but his motivation is much bigger than that.Duke has been training with his family in Cincinnati, before making the trip to Tokyo for the 2020 games where he's ready to represent them and his hometown on the biggest stage.“There’s a lot of boxers in the world, also for me to be the standout guy on the USA team and being number one and representing my country and of course from Cincinnati, Ohio, so it's a big motivation for me because I know a lot of people wish they can be there," he said. "A lot of guys don't really get their talent especially from Cincinnati so I just want to put on for these guys and give them motivation and hope."Lawrence Sapp: SwimmingCollege: University of Cincinnati Sapp began swimming at age five with his summer swim club and became a member of USA Swimming in 2013. He was first diagnosed at age 2 with a developmental delay and by age 18 he was diagnosed with autism and an intellectual impairment. Lawrence has an excellent memory and can be characterized as extremely athletic, hard-working and honest.Kyle Snyder: WrestlingCollege: Ohio StateDavid Taylor: WrestlingBirthplace: Reno, NevadaHometown: St. Paris, OhioHometown: State College, Pennsylvania Jordan Thompson: VolleyballHometown: Edina, Minn.College: University of Cincinnati Former University of Cincinnati volleyball player Jordan Thompson has been selected for the 2020 U.S. Olympic women's indoor volleyball team.Thompson has been with Team USA in Italy this month while they get ready for the Olympics with the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Rimini, Italy.Former UC assistant coach Erin Virtue (2007-10) is a member of the USAV coaching staff.Thompson will become the first former UC student-athlete to compete in an Olympic volleyball event, the 17th former Bearcat in the Olympics, the 10th for Team USA and the first since Mary Wineberg (track & field) in 2008.Jacob Wukie: ArcheryBirthplace: Massillon, OhioHometown: Oak Harbor, OhioCurrent residence: Chula Vista, California Alec Yoder: GymnasticsBirthplace: Indianapolis, IndianaHometown: Indianapolis, IndianaCurrent residence: Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State University) Former Ohio State Buckeye Alec Yoder will also be heading to Tokyo as the individual specialist.KENTUCKYBam Adebayo: BasketballCollege: University of KentuckyCurrently playing for the Miami Heat, Adebayo played for the University of Kentucky for one season (2016-17). He was named a member of the 2021 U.S. Men's Basketball Team.Marcelo Acosta: SwimmingCollege: University of Louisville Acosta will represent El Salvador in Tokyo. A Louisville graduate, he played a major role for the Cardinals in his senior 2018-2019 season, finishing with All-American honors in the 1650 free for the second straight season with a sixth place finish in a time of 14:38.92 at the NCAA Championships.Ronnie Baker: Track and FieldBirthplace: Louisville, KentuckyHometown: Louisville, KentuckyCurrent residence: Fort Worth, TexasAndrej Barna: SwimmingCollege: University of Louisville Barna, a University of Louisville swimmer, will represent Serbia in the 2021 games. After sitting out the first semester, Barna picked up right where he left off this season and qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 100 freestyle before the meet was canceled.Devin Booker: BasketballCollege: University of KentuckyThe Phoenix Suns' Guard and Kentucky graduate will play in his first Olympics in Tokyo.Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: Track and FieldCollege: University of Kentucky Camacho-Quinn will represent Puerto Rico in the 100-meter hurdles. Brittany Cervantes: SoftballCollege: University of Kentucky Cervates, a 2012 UK graduate and current Director of Softball Operations, is heading to Tokyo representing Team Mexico.Cervantes is not only the first UK softball player ever to compete in the Olympics, but is also the first player coached by UK head coach Rachel Lawson to make a roster for the games."I want to start by thanking the Mexican Softball Federation for giving me this one-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Cervantes said. I'm happy that we were able to come up with the wins to put us in a position to qualify for the sport's biggest stage next summer. This opportunity is something you dream about, and especially now that softball is back in the Olympics. I want to thank Coach Lawson and Kentucky for being such an integral part of seeing out this dream and I wouldn't have been able to do any of this without all of the support that I've received from my family."Brooke Forde: SwimmingBirthplace: Louisville, KentuckyHometown: Louisville, KentuckyCurrent residence: Stanford, CaliforniaKeni Harrison: Track and FieldCollege: University of Kentucky Keni Harrison, who competed for the University of Kentucky in 2014-15, affirmed one of the biggest redemption stories of the United States Track and Field Olympic Team Trials, qualifying for Team USA. She won the U.S. Olympic Trials 100-meter hurdles final in 12.47 seconds.Harrison's performance in the 100-meter hurdles was a mixture of relief and redemption after not making the Olympics in 2016. Ironically, just two weeks after the '16 Olympic Trials she set the world record (12.20 seconds) that still stands, as a statement of the intent that she wouldn't be deterred. Zach Harting: SwimmingBirthplace: Madison, AlabamaHometown: Huntsville, AlabamaCurrent residence: Louisville, Kentucky (University of Louisville)Emmy Kaiser: Wheelchair TennisBirthplace: CincinnatiHometown: Ft. Mitchell, Ky.High School: Saint Henry District High School College: Thomas More CollegeAt the age of 5, Kaiser found wheelchair tennis when organizers at a local wheelchair tennis exhibition handed her a tennis racket. She resides at Fort Mitchell, Kentucky and is living with spina bifida.Lee Kiefer: FencingBirthplace: Cleveland, OhioHometown: Lexington, KentuckyCurrent residence: Lexington, KentuckyCollege: Attended medical school at UKAyeisha McFerran: Field HockeyCollege: Played at UofL from 2015-2018McFerran was selected as part of the first Irish Women's field hockey team. Sydney McLaughlin: Track and FieldCollege: University of KentuckyKentucky Track and Field legend Sydney McLaughlin broke the 400-meter hurdles world record winning in 51.90 seconds in a heat-delayed United States Olympic Team Trials.Running on the same ground where she made the 2016 Olympic Team as a high-school athlete and then won the NCAA 400H Title for Kentucky in 2018, McLaughlin became the first woman in history to break 52 seconds.Chuck Melton: Wheelchair RugbyBirthplace: Madisonville, Ky.High School: Marshall County High School (Benton, Ky.)In 2002, Melton suffered a C7 spinal cord injury from a diving accident. Five years after his accident, he began to play wheelchair rugby.Leah Nugent: Track and FieldCollege: University of KentuckyNugent will represent Jamaica in the 2021 Olympic Games. She's one of eight UK track starts to compete in Tokyo.Yared Nuguse: Track and FieldBirthplace: Louisville, KentuckyHometown: Louisville, KentuckyCurrent residence: Louisville, KentuckyJavianne Oliver: Track and FieldCollege: University of KentuckyHometown: Monroe, GeorgiaJavianne Oliver, who competed for the University of Kentucky from 2015-17, earned a spot on the United States Track and Field Olympic Team.Oliver's time at Kentucky was highlighted by winning a silver medal in the 60m dash at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships. She owns the No. 2 time in UK history in the 60m (7.14) and the No. 4 mark in UK history in the 100m (11.16).Justin Thomas: GolfBirthplace: Louisville, KentuckyHometown: Louisville, KentuckyCurrent residence: Jupiter, Florida “It's the only tournament I'm able to brag about being able to play,” Justin Thomas said. “I never got so many congratulations about being an Olympian. The first time you get in the PGA Championship, the British Open, you don't get people congratulating you. You get that when you're an Olympian.”Jessica Ramsey: Track and FieldHometown: Boynton Beach, FloridaCollege: Former Western Kentucky University throwerFormer WKU thrower Ramsey set an Olympic Trials meet record (20.12 meters), winning the women's shot put event to qualify for Team USA.Daniel Roberts: Track and FieldCollege: University of KentuckyBirthplace: Atlanta, GeorgiaHometown: Atlanta, GeorgiaUniversity of Kentucky legend Daniel Roberts has made the American team in the 110-meter hurdles. Roberts, the 2019 Southeastern 110H Champion, double NCAA runner-up and U.S. Champion, all as a junior for Kentucky, was third in the final, running a season best 13.11 (+0.4)."It means the world, man," Roberts said to Lewis Johnson on the NBC broadcast. "This past season has been crazy for all of us, so I'm just happy to be here with my boys."Tatiana Salcutan: SwimmingCollege: University of Louisville A current Louisville student, Salcutan will represent Moldova in the 200 backstroke.Murilo Sartori: SwimmingCollege: University of LouisvilleAn incoming Louisville freshman, Sartori will represent Brazil in Tokyo.Will Shaner: RifleCollege: University of KentuckyShaner having a great season for the Wildcats, averaging 595.545 air rifle average and 1182.909 aggregate average. Shaner has four scores of 597 or higher in air rifle this season.Grigory Tarasevich: SwimmingCollege: University of Louisville Tarasevich was a late addition to the Russian Olympic team, and will now be a two-time Olympian. He's a former member of the Louisville Cardinals.Mary Tucker: RifleCollege: University of KentuckyTucker is having a great season for the Wildcats, averaging 597.636 in air rifle with an aggregate average of 1187.909. Tucker has scored 598 or better in air rifle seven times this NCAA season while there have only been 14 scores of 598 or better overall in the NCAA.Ben Williams: Track and FieldCollege: University of LouisvilleWilliams, a former University of Louisville student, will represent the United Kingdom in 2021, participating in the Triple Jump.INDIANABailey Andison: SwimmingCollege: Indiana UniversityAndison will represent Team Canada in Tokyo. The Ontario Falls native now resides in Bloomington, Indiana. Andison was part of Team Canada at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima where she won bronze in the 200m individual medley. She had qualified for that team by finishing third in the 200m IM at the Canadian Trials.Zach Apple: SwimmingCollege: Indiana UniversityHometown: Trenton, OhioZach Apple will compete in the 100-meter freestyle at the summer games.An Edgewood High School graduate, the 24-year-old will compete in his first Olympics.Apple finished second in the 100 free at 47.72 during the qualifiers, behind Caeleb Dressel.Evan Austin: SwimmingBirthplace: Terre Haute, IndianaHometown: Terre Haute, IndianaAustin began swimming at age 11. He has spastic paraplegia. The Sycamore alum made his senior international debut at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.Michael Brinegar: SwimmingCollege: Indiana UniversityIndiana rising redshirt junior Michael Brinegar advanced to the Olympic Games Tokyo in his second event during the final night of finals at the 2020 Olympic Trials.Brinegar, an Olympian in the 800m Freestyle, earned a second roster spot after finishing second in the 1500m Freestyle final with a time of 15:00.87, narrowly missing his career-best time of 15:00.82.Zach Buhler: GoalballBirthplace: Indianapolis, IndianaHometown: Huntington, IndianaParalympian Buhler has been an athlete all his life, playing basketball and football until he lost his vision.Jeff Butler: Wheelchair RugbyBirthplace: Fort Wayne, Ind.Hometown: Fort Wayne, Ind.Andrew Capobianco: DivingCollege: Indiana UniversityRising redshirt senior Andrew Capobianco qualified for his first Olympics in the upcoming Tokyo Games in two diving events: the 3-meter synchronized springboard (with ex-Hoosier Mike Hixon) and the 3-meter springboard.Skylar Diggins-Smith: BasketballHometown: South Bend, IndianaAnnie Drews: VolleyballHometown: Elkhart, Ind.She was named most valuable player of the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Nations League after leading USA to gold, including a team-high 33 points against Brazil in the title match.Chloe Dygert: CyclingBirthplace: Indianapolis, Ind.Hometown: Brownsburg, Ind.Tomer Frankel: SwimmingCollege: Indiana University Frankel, an Indiana freshman, will compete for Israel this year in Tokyo. In his freshman year, Frankel earned seven All-America honors at the 2021 NCAA Championships.Sam Grewe: Track and FieldBirthplace: Goshen, Ind.Hometown: Middlebury, Ind.An avid athlete, Grewe played lacrosse, basketball and football in his small community of Middlebury, Indiana. Just before Christmas in 2011, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer that resulted in the amputation of his right leg after spreading to his knee.Sarah Hildebrandt: WrestlingHometown: Granger, Ind.High School: Granger, Ind.Mike Hixon: DivingCollege: Indiana UniversityHixon has qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team, competing in the 3-meter springboard event. A 2018 IU graduate, he won a silver medal in the event at the Rio Olympics five years ago.Cole Hocker: Track and FieldHometown: Indianapolis, Ind.Courtney Hurley: FencingCollege: University of Notre DameKelley Hurley: FencingCollege: University of Notre Dame Lynna Irby: Track and FieldBirthplace: Merrillville, Ind.Hometown: Indianapolis, Ind.Nick Itkin: Fencing College: University of Notre DameMikaela Jenkins: SwimmingHometown: Evansville, Ind.Born with left Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency, Jenkins underwent a left Symes Amputation when she was eight months old. She learned to swim at age four and began competitive swimming when she was eight.Drew Kibler: SwimmingBirthplace: Indianapolis, IndianaHometown: Carmel, IndianaLilly King: SwimmingCollege: Indiana UniversityThe former Indiana swimming national title holder has qualified for the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststrokes, plus potentially a couple relays.Vini Lanza: Swimming College: Indiana UniversityThe former three-time Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships nabbed a spot on the Brazilian National Team with a great swim in the 200 IM. He touched in second place with a time of 1:59.58, just under the FINA "A" Standard mark of 1:59.67.Lanza finished third overall in the 100 Butterfly after carrying the top time into the finals. He touched at 52.36, ahead of his preliminary pace.In the 200 Butterfly, Lanza shot out quick to post a 100-meter split of 56.63 but struggled to hang with the top of the field and slipped to ninth in the prelims with a time of 2:04.17.Annie Lazor: SwimmingCollege: Indiana UniversityAnnie Lazor stuck to her race plan and closed the final 100 meters at 1:12.17, the fastest in the eight-lane final field, to win the women's 200m Breaststroke and secure a spot on Team USA for the Olympics. She touched first at 2:21.07.Ray Looze: Coach, SwimmingCollege: Indiana UniversityIndiana head swimming coach Ray Looze was named to Team USA's coaching staff for the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Looze will serve as an assistant coach.Brandon Loschiavo: DivingCollege: Purdue UniversityJewell Loyd: BasketballCollege: University of Notre Dame, 2015Noah Malone: Track and FieldHometown: Fishers, Ind.Diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a rare eye condition that leaves him with 20/400 vision in his left eye and 20/600 in his right eye, Malone tarted losing his vision at 2015 and went to the optometrist, who diagnosed him with the genetic disorder. He holds several records at Hamilton Southeastern High School, including the 100m, 200m, and 4x100 relay.Gerek Meinhardt: FencingCollege: University of Notre DameKayla Miracle: WrestlingHometown: Culver, Ind.Jake Mitchell: SwimmingHometown: Carmel, IndianaMakayla Nietzel: SwimmingCollege: Purdue University Jessica ParrattoCollege: Indiana UniversityBlake PieroniCollege: Indiana UniversityRajeev Ram: TennisHometown: Carmel, IndianaA 2016 silver medalist, Ram will be competing in men's doubles.Joe Schroeder: RugbyBirthplace: Indianapolis, Ind.Hometown: Westfield, Ind.Molly Seidel: Track and FieldCollege: University of Notre DameLizzi Smith: SwimmingBirthplace: Muncie, IndianaSmith started competitive swimming at age seven and is currently training and coaching at Western Hills Athletic Club in Austin, Texas.Hannah Roberts: CyclingBirthplace: South Bend, IndianaA BMX biker, Roberts entered her first competition in 2012. She's passionate about growing the sport and increasing women's participation. Kara Winger: Track and FieldCollege: Purdue UniversityMariel Zagunis: FencingCollege: University of Notre Dame