The 2016 Summer Olympics are about to get started, and so are the Golden Bears.

Fifty athletes, coaches and staff members with ties to Cal have descended on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, which start Wednesday with the beginning of the women's soccer competition. Opening Ceremonies are set for Friday and the events get underway in earnest on Saturday.

The Golden Bears have 41 athletes and nine coaches/staffers participating in the Olympics, spread out over 15 sports. That includes 18 swimmers, six rowers and five water polo athletes. 

Former Cal stars Alex Morgan and Betsy Hassett are the first Golden Bears to see action, as Morgan and U.S. women's soccer team opens play Wedneday in group play against Hassett and New Zealand.

CalBears.com will have daily coverage of the Olympics, and fans can also follow their Golden Bears on Cal's social media accounts. Coverage will include daily recaps, special features, videos and more. All Olympic content can be found at CalBears.com/Olympics.

Below are bios of all 50 Golden Bears participating at the 2016 Summer Games.



 

Nathan Adrian, Men's Swimming
A native of Bremerton, Wash., Adrian is a four-time Olympic medalist (three gold, one silver) and the defending Olympic champion in the 100 freestyle after his win at the 2012 London Olympics. While at Cal, won 10 NCAA titles including a 2011 senior season in which he won the 50 and 100-yard freestyle as well as swimming on three title-winning relays as the Bears won their first NCAA team title since 1980. In the long course format, Adrian owns the American record in the 50-meter freestyle, U.S. Open record in the 400-meter freestyle relay and 400-meter medley relay.






Byeong-Hun An, Men's Golf
An is ranked 10th among golfers participating in the 2016 Olympics and is 31st in the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 17, 2016. An turned professional in 2011 after one season at Cal but had his breakthrough season in 2015 when he earned a pair of prestigious European Tour honors as the Rookie of the Year and the Challenge Tour Graduate of the Year. An won his first European Tour title at the BMW PGA Championship in May of 2015 and broke the tournament record for the event's lowest winning score. It was among four top-four finishes and seven top-10 showings. He has split time between the European Tour and PGA TOUR during the 2016 season and has five top-10 finishes including a PGA TOUR career-best second-place showing at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and an impressive tied for ninth-place finish at the World Golf Championships. An was the youngest champion in the history of the U.S. Amateur at the age of 17 in 2009 and a semifinalist in 2010, while his Cal highlight during his single season with the Golden Bears was a fourth-place showing at the 2011 NCAA Tucson Regional. His parents both participated in table tennis at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with his mother, Ji-Min Cho, earning a silver medal in women's doubles and a bronze in women's singles for China, while his father was a bronze medalist in men's doubles for South Korea. His father is participating in 2016 Olympics in Rio.


Dora Antal, Women's Water Polo
Rising junior has established herself as one of the top collegiate players in the nation, and is widely regarded as one of the best offensive players in the world. She was named an ACWPC First Team All-American in each of her first two seasons at Cal, and was the 2014 MPSF Newcomer of the Year. The Bears reached the semifinals of the NCAA Championships in both 2014 and 2015, and Antal was selected to the NCAA Championships All-Tournament First Team. Antal has registered four six-goal games during her career, tied for the third-best single-season total in school history. Internationally, Antal has already made one Olympic appearance, leading Hungary to the Bronze Medal Match in 2012. She also led the Hungarians to the 2016 European Championship, which led to an automatic berth into the 2016 Summer Games.





Stephanie Au, Hong Kong
Au will compete in her third Olympics this August and has been chosen as Hong Kong's flag bearer for the Opening Ceremonies. She was her home country's youngest team member in 2008 when she swam in the 200m, 400m and 800m free, while she competed in the 100m and 200m back in 2012. An All-American for the Bears in the backstroke events, Au twice swam in the World University Games and was a Scholar All-American and Pac-12 All-Academic selection for her work in the classroom.






Kathleen Baker, Women's Swimming
Baker earned her place on the U.S. team with a second-place finish in the 100m backstroke at the Olympic Trials and owns a best of 59.29 in the event. She was a finalist in the 100m back at the 2015 World Championships (8th). Baker, who will be a sophomore at Cal in 2016-17, was runner-up in the 200-yard IM at the 2016 NCAA Championships. She has additional international experience that includes finishing ninth in the 100m back at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, and taking a silver medal in the 200m free relay and placing sixth in the 100m back at the 2014 FINA Short Course World Championships.  






Danny Barrett, Men's Rugby
A four-time All-American and national collegiate champion in both 7s and 15s during his Golden Bear career from 2009-13, Barrett was a multi-year mainstay on the USA National 7s Team on the World Series of Sevens circuit prior to his selection on August 18 to the Team USA Olympic roster for Rugby 7s, the version of the sport that returns to the Olympics in Rio for the first time since 1924. Barrett was a member of the 2011 national collegiate 15s champion Rugby Bears and helped California win its first national title in the Olympic style of the game in 2013 at the Collegiate Rugby Championship. Also a veteran of the 2015 Rugby World Cup is the 15s style of the game, he received his degree from Cal in American Studies. Barrett is the youngest of three brothers from Pacifica, Calif., joining Jim and Neill, to have graduated in succession from the University.





Jahvid Best, Men's Track & Field
Best becomes the first ex-NFL player to ever compete in a Summer Olympic Games. Best has a Saint Lucian father and holds dual citizenship. He appeared on the Olympic radar after he ran a personal-best 10.16 seconds for the 100m with nearly the maximum allowable legal tailwind (1.9 meters/second) at a meet in California. A two-sport athlete while at Salesian High School in Richmond, Calif., Best won a gold medal in the 200m at the 2005 USTAF Junior Olympics, and he won the 2007 California State Championship in the 100m with a time of 10.31 and also finished second in the 200m at 20.65.






Lauren Boyle, Women's Swimming
Boyle, who is competing in her third Olympic Games, swam for Cal through 2010, setting a school record in the 1650-yard free. She helped the Bears to their first NCAA team title in 2009. Boyle owns the world record in the short-course version of the 1500m free. At the 2015 World Championships, she earned silver medals for her finishes in the 800m and 1500m free, and claimed bronze in the 400m free, 800m free and 1500m at the 2013 World meet. In 2014, Boyle claimed gold in the 400m at the Commonwealth Games.






Camille Cheng, Women's Swimming
Cheng will swim the 200m free and will likely be on the 400m medley relay for Hong Kong this summer. She originally came to Cal as a walk-on and grew into a team co-captain and a member of Cal's 800y free relay that won the NCAA title in 2015, her senior year. In addition, Cheng won the B final of the 200y free relay in a PR 1:42.82 at the national meet. A psychology major at Cal, she was a multi-time Scholar All-American and Pac-12 All-Academic choice.






Luca Cupido, Men's Water Polo
A native of Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy by way of Newport Beach, Calif., Cupido will enter his third year at Cal in 2016. He earned first team All-America and first team All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) honors in 2015 after scoring 43 goals and tallying 46 assists and 48 ejections earned. He also earned All-NCAA Tournament honors for helping the Bears take third in 2015. Cupido began to make his mark internationally for Team USA in 2015 by scoring 16 goals en route to a gold medal at the Pan American Games. His goal with two seconds left carried Team USA to a 10-9 win over Australia in the gold medal match of the 2016 FINA Intercontinental Tournament in Japan.





Will Dean, Men's Rowing
Dean had a decorated career during his time at Cal, winning the IRA championship in the Freshman Eight in 2007 and then competing with the Varsity Eight as a senior and winning another IRA crown. Dean's Freshman Eight boat also won the Pac-10 championship in 2007. This is Dean's second Olympic appearance, having finished ninth in the quadruple event in 2012. He also won a pair of gold medals at the 2015 Pan American Games and took second at the 2008 World Rowing U23 Championships.







Damir Dugonjic, Men's Swimming
After competing in the breaststroke in both 2008 and 2012, Dugonjic will compete in his third Olympic games in Rio. While at Cal, he won three NCAA titles in the 100-yard breaststroke and ended his collegiate career with seven national titles and 11 Pac-12 titles. He finished fifth in the 50-meter breaststroke at the 2015 FINA World Championships. In 2012, Dugonjic won the gold medal in the 50 breast at the European Championships and took silver in both the 50 and 100 breast at the World Championships in Istanbul.






Anthony Ervin, Men's Swimming
Having qualified for his third Olympic games at age 35 in both the 50 and 100-meter freestyle, Ervin is the oldest American male swimmer to qualify for an individual event since 1904. The Valencia, Calif. native won gold in the 50 freestyle and silver in the 400 free relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and, after retiring from competitive swimming at age 22, returned to the sport in 2011 and qualified for the 2012 London Olympics. While at Cal, Ervin won seven NCAA titles, including a three-year reign as the 100 freestyle champion.







Caileigh Filmer, Women's Rowing
An up-and-comer in Canadian rowing, Filmer took second place at both the 2015 World Rowing U23 Championships and 2014 World Junior Rowing Championships. She's also made appearances in the World Cup and Youth Olympics.  At Cal, Filmer helped the Varsity 8 win the 2015 Pac-12 championship and finish second at the NCAA Championships. Filmer took the 2016 off from Cal to train with the Canadian Natioanl Team.









Missy Franklin, Women's Swimming
Franklin won four gold medals, and five overall, at the 2012 Olympic in London. She took gold in the 100m and 200m back, the 400m medley relay and the 800m free relay, while also claiming bronze in the 400m medley relay. She earned six gold medals at the 2013 World Championships. Franklin swam for two years at Cal before turning pro in the spring of 2015. At the 2015 NCAA meet, she set an American record in the 200y free and also won the 200y IM and 200y back. As a result, she was named the 2015 Honda Cup winner as the top female collegiate athlete. In addition, Franklin was tabbed the 2015 Academic All-American of the Year (at-large division).






Nareg Guregian, Men's Rowing
Guregian was the 2010 Pac-10 Athlete of the Year after helping the Bears' Varsity 8 to the IRA championship. He also led the Freshman 8 to the Pac-10 and IRA titles in 2007 and captured another Pac-10 crown with the Varsity 8 as a junior. Guregian has a pair of second-place finishes at the World Rowing U23 Championships and two first-place finishes in World Cup competition. He's also made appearances at the World Rowing Championships and the Pan American Games.







Long Gutierrez, Men's Swimming
A versatile performer for Cal swimming, Gutierrez will enter his senior season in 2016-17 after helping the Bears finish in the top two at the NCAA Championships in each of his three years on the team. Scored points for the Bears at the 2016 NCAA Championships in the 200 freestyle and competed on three relays. Gutierrez qualified for the Rio Olympics thanks to posting a FINA "A" qualifying time at the 2015 U.S. National Championships in San Antonio, Texas. A native of Cottonwood Heights, Utah who was born in Mexico City, Gutierrez was named Utah high school swimmer of the year three years in a row.






Betsy Hassett, Women's Soccer
Hassett will be competing in her second Olympic Games in Rio after taking part in the 2012 London Games for her native New Zealand. During her time with the Golden Bears, Hassett earned a pair of Pac-12 All-Conference accolades, including a First Team honor as a senior in 2012. She played her first FIFA World Cup and first Olympic Games while competing at Cal. While in Berkeley, Hassett played in 64 games (50 starts) while recording seven goals, eight assists and 22 total points.

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Anna Illes, Women's Water Polo    
Rising junior is one of the top two-way players in the MPSF – a defensive-minded driver who also has the ability to score. In her first two years at Cal, she helped the Bears reach the semifinals of the NCAA Championships, scoring 89 goals over the seasons. She was named an ACWPC Third Team All-American following her sophomore season after receiving honorable mention as a freshman. She and teammate Dora Antal have helped bring Hungary's women's water polo program to international prominence, as the Hungarians won the 2016 European Championship with both Illes and Antal in the pool. Illes also helped Hungary win the silver medal at the 2011 World Championships and the bronze at the 2013 World Championships.





Yvette Kong, Women's Swimming
Kong competed for the Bears from 2012-15 and was a member of Cal's 2012 and 2015 NCAA Championship teams. She helped the 200y medley relay set a school record at the 2014 Pac-12 meet. Kong earned Pac-12 All-Academic and Scholar All-America honors during her career. Internationally, she represented Hong Kong at the 2013 World University Games.







Carli Lloyd, Women's Volleyball
Arguably Cal's best volleyball player ever, Lloyd is the only Golden Bear to be named National Player of the Year. She took the nation's top honor in 2010, when she led Cal to the NCAA title match. One of only two Cal volleyball players to participate in two NCAA Final Fours, Lloyd was a three-time All-American who also guided the Bears to two NCAA Elite Eight appearances. A member of the U.S National Team program since leaving Cal, Lloyd was named the most valuable player of the 2015 Pan Am Games, where Team USA captured the gold medal.






John Mann, Men's Water Polo
The 2006 recipient of the Peter J. Cutino Award for the nation's top collegiate water polo player, Mann will represent Team USA at the Olympics for the second time (2008). Playing as a center, Mann ranks third in the Cal record book with 218 career goals and his 80-goal season, which ranks fourth in a single-season by a Golden Bear, helped lead Cal to the 2006 NCAA championship. A mainstay for Team USA and longtime standout as a professional overseas, Mann helped C.N. Marseille win the French National Championship in 2015.






Marko Marjanovic, Men's Rowing
Marjanovic made an immediate impact when he arrived at Cal, leading the Freshmen 8 to an undefeated season in 2005 and winning both the Pac-10 and IRA championship. It was more of the same the following season, as Marjanovic rowed on the Varsity 8 and won another Pac-10 and IRA crown. A member of the Serbian National Team since 2002, Marjanovic has second place finishes to his name at the World Rowing Championships, World Rowing U23 Championships and World Cup 1.






Inika McPherson, Women's Track & Field
The Port Arthur, Texas native was a three-time All-American during her four years in Berkeley, twice during indoor season and once during outdoors. McPherson remains the Cal indoor record in the high jump (6-0.00) and still sits in third place on the Cal all-time list (6-0.50). She won conference titles in the MPSF and Pac-10 and earned three U.S. national titles (two indoor, one outdoor) after graduating. Rio will mark her first time as an Olympian, earning her spot after finishing third at the U.S. Olympic Trials.







Alex Morgan, Women's Soccer    
Morgan will be competing in her second Olympic Games in Rio after winning gold at the 2012 London Games. While at Cal, the Diamond Bar, Calif. native appeared in 67 matches with 61 starts, finishing her Golden Bear career with 45 goals and 107 points (T-third all-time in Cal history). Her five collegiate hat tricks are the most of any Cal player, and along with All-Pac-10 honors in 2010 and 2009, Morgan was an NSCAA All-American and Hermann Trophy finalist in 2010. A gold medal in Rio will give Morgan and the USWNT the first-ever Women's World Cup-Olympic sweep.







Ryan Murphy, Men's Swimming
Already a two-time Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year, Murphy will enter his senior season in 2016-17 as the reigning CSCAA co-National Swimmer of the Year. Despite spending long stretches of the 2015-16 season training long course in preparation for the Olympic trials, Murphy broke the American, NCAA and U.S. Open record in the 100 backstroke three times at the 2016 NCAA Championships. He is a six-time NCAA champion in the backstroke and also owns four NCAA relay titles. Internationally, Murphy swam the backstroke leg on Team USA's gold medal-winning 400 medley relay at the 2015 FINA World Championships.






Farida Osman, Women's Swimming
Osman is competing in her second Olympics, where she was the only Egyptian female swimmer and placed 41st in the 50m free with a time of 26.34. She is the Cal record-holder in the 50y free (21.32), set during her victory at the 2016 Pac-12 Championships. Osman also won the 100y fly at the 2016 Pac-12 meet. At the 2016 NCAA Championships, she was the runner-up in the 50y free and placed third in the 100y fly. A two-time finalist in the 50m fly at the World Championships, Osman owns numerous African records in the free and fly events. She won a gold medal in the 50m fly at the 2011 World Junior meet.






Ryan Patterson, Men's Gymnastics
The year off from NCAA competition made all the difference for Ryan Patterson, who became the first male gymnast to represent South Africa in the Olympics since the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia. Patterson, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, however, marshaled his recent Olympic journey while competing for the Golden Bears. A recent graduate, Patterson credits his training and teammates while at Cal for preparing him to compete more intently at the world level. "I think the realization that I actually had the ability to make it came in my time at university when a teammate of mine qualified onto the USA national team," Patterson told the South Africa Gymnastics Federation. "[My Cal teammate's] huge accomplishment was a catalyst in my belief and inspired me to go all out on my training and push for qualification." After closing the 2015 collegiate season as an All-American in the vault (finishing sixth overall), he went on to earn an 82.132 at the World Championships in Glasgow that solidified his Olympic bid.




Jacob Pebley, Men's Swimming
A versatile performer throughout four standout years at Cal, Pebley placed second in the 200-meter backstroke to qualify for the Olympics. He took second in the 200-yard backstroke at the 2016 NCAA Championships and owns the second-fastest time in Cal history in the event. He won gold in the 200 backstroke at the 2015 World University Games in South Korea and earned silver as part of Team USA's 400 medley relay team. He won three gold medals at the 2011 World Junior Championships and set a new meet record in the 200 back.






Josh Prenot, Men's Swimming
After winning his first collegiate title with a victory in the 400-yard individual medley at the 2016 NCAA Championships, Prenot set an American record to win the 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials. He had an incredible 2016 as a whole, setting a pair of pool records at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center, winning the 200 IM at the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool and taking the 200 breast at the Arena Pro Series in Austin, Texas and Orlando, Fla. In 2015, he won gold in the 200 IM and 200 breast and silver in the 400 IM at the World University Games in South Korea.






Milan Ristic, Men's Track & Field
The Serbian came to run for the Golden Bears after a pair of seasons at UNC Asheville. While his time in Berkeley was brief, he still has a place on Cal's all-time top 10 list in the 110 meter hurdles. Ristic also reached both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in 2014 in the 60 meter hurdles and 110 meter hurdles, respectively. Ristic is a multiple time national champion in his home country and a first-time Olympian.







Tom Shields, Men's Swimming
Shields finished second in both the 100 and 200-meter butterfly at the U.S. Olympic Trials to earn his first trip to the Olympics. As a standout at Cal, Shields was named the 2012 Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year after winning NCAA titles in the 100-yard backstroke, 100 butterfly and 400 medley relay. He won the NCAA title in the 100 butterfly all four years of college and finished his college career with 11 national titles. Finished runner-up in the 100 butterfly at the 2015 AT&T Winter Nationals and won gold in the 400 medley relay at the 2015 FINA World Championships.






Olivier Siegelaar, Men's Rowing
Siegelaar is making his third Olympic appearance, having registered top-5 finishes in both 2008 and 2012. Although his boat finished fifth in 2012, the Dutch were just .05 seconds behind taking the bronze medal. He's also made two World Rowing Championships appearances and has two first-place finishes in World Cup competition. During his time at Cal, he rowed in the Varsity 8 and won the Pac-10 championship in 2009 and captured the IRA title in 2010. He was an All-Pac-10 selection in 2011.







Roser Tarrago, Women's Water Polo
Rising junior has had a decorated international and college career, highlighted by a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Tarrago has also led Spain to the gold medal at the 2013 World Championships and 2014 European Championships. Earlier this summer, she was named Best Scorer at the FINA World League Super Final, as Spain took the silver medal. At Cal, Tarrago has been named an All-American in each of her first two seasons in helping the Bears reach the national semifinals of the NCAA Championships each year. She was also voted the MVP of the 2015 MPSF Tournament.






Noemie Thomas, Women's Swimming
Thomas qualified for Rio by finishing second in the 100m fly at the Canadian Olympic Trials in a PR 57.02. She earned a silver medal in the 100m fly and on the 400m medley relay at the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto and later placed eighth in the 100m fly at the 2015 World Championships. She was seventh in the event at Worlds in 2013. Thomas, who will be a junior at Cal in the fall, finished sixth in the 100y fly at the 2016 NCAA Championships. She is a Scholar All-American and Pac-12 All-Academic team member.






David Torrence, Men's Track & Field
Torrence set the Bears' freshman record in the 1500 meters in 2004 and is currently fifth overall on Cal's all-time list in the event by 2007. He also holds the third best fastest time in the mile and fourth best time in the distance medley relay, which he set in 2007 as well. Torrence reached the NCAA Championships three times and earned All-American status in the DMR. The Tarzana, Calif. native – who was born in Japan – will run in Rio for his mother's native Peru after competing for the U.S. through the 2015 Pan American Games.






Dana Vollmer, Women's Swimming
An Olympian for the third time, Vollmer earned a gold medal as part of the 800m free relay in 2004, then won three goals in 2012 – 100m fly, 400m medley relay and 800m free relay. She is former world-record holder in the 100m fly, set at the London Olympics. Vollmer led Cal to its first NCAA team title as a senior in 2009. She nearly retired from swimming after the 2012 Olympics after getting married and having a son, Arlen. Since returning to the sport, she uses the hashtag #mommaonamission. While at Cal, she set school records in the 100y and 200y free and was the 2009 Pac-12 and NCAA Swimmer of the Year.






Natan Wegrzycki-Szmczyk, Men's Rowing
Rising junior qualified for the Rio games in the single at the 2015 World Rowing Championships. He's also appeared twice at the World Rowing Junior Championships as well as the World Rowing U23 Championships, taking first in 2013. He has a pair of top-5 finishes at the U23 Championships and also participated in the 2016 World Cup. Wegrzycki-Szymczyk was part of the Bears' Varsity 8 that won the Pac-12 championship and IRA championship in 2016, and was named the Pac-12 Men's Athlete of the Year. He was part of the same boats that took second in both events in 2015.








Abbey Weitzeil, Women's Swimming
Weitzeil signed with the Bears in the fall of 2014 and deferred enrollment until the fall of 2016. She won both the 50m and 100m free at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Last summer, Weitzeil earned a bronze medal as a member of the 400m free relay at the World Championships, while she claimed gold in the 400m free relay and silver in the 100m free at the 2015 World University Games. She is also the American-record holder in the 50y free and a former American-record holder in the 100y free.







Toni-Ann Williams, Women's Gymnastics
Already the first Cal women's gymnast to qualify for the Olympics in school history, Toni-Ann Williams continues to blaze a trail as the first gymnast to represent the country of Jamaica. The 2015 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and three-time all-conference selection owns four NACGC/W Regular Season All-America titles and has been named the regional gymnast of the year in both of her collegiate seasons. Williams has shattered dozens of program records, which includes a pair of perfect 10.0s on vault. A product of Randallstown, Md., Williams has been competing internationally for Jamaica for six years, representing the nation at every World Championships event since 2010.





Lily Zhang, Women's Table Tennis
If having a documentary on Netflix (Top Spin) tracking your first Olympic journey in table tennis is not impressive enough, then surely solidifying consecutive Olympic bids by the age of 20 is. California Golden Bear Lily Zhang heads to Rio to find retribution for her disappointment at the 2012 London Games where she finished 49th in singles and Team USA did not medal in the sport. She was only 16 then and the third youngest of any Team USA member in London. Since 2012, the Palo Alto, Calif., native has continued to build her resume collecting numerous national championships, also earning several top-three world finishes. Zhang, an aggressive shakehand all-around attacker, took a year away from the classroom to join Austrian club SVNO Strock and compete in the European professional league to face stout competition. In 2016, so far, she's claimed the U.S. women's national title in singles and doubles.








 

Cory Bosworth, Women's Rowing
Bosworth excelled both in the water and the classroom during her time at Cal, earning two All-Pac-10 honors and three Pac-10 All-Academic awards. As a senior, she helped the Golden Bears take third place at the NCAA Championships and also won the Anna Espenschade Award for having the highest cumulative GPA of any female student-athlete at Cal. Bosworth also earned her master's from Cal and served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Bears. Bosworth has been an assistant coach at Harvard since 2002, She has twice been named the New England Regional Assistant Coach of the Year.






David Dantes, Men's Volleyball
One of the most respected volleyball technicians in the country, Dantes will aid Team USA's men's volleyball program by providing video analysis of all potential opponents. A former volunteer assistant at Cal, Dantes has been the director of operations for Cal's women's program since 2011. He also has time on the bench as an assistant coach at Yale, where he served one season as a volunteer assistant followed by one season as a full-time assistant. Dantes also played setter for Boston University's club team. He received his degree in Political Science from Boston in 2007.






David Durden, Men's Swimming
In nine years at the helm of Cal men's swimming and diving, Durden has established the Bears as a perennial national power with three NCAA titles (2011, 2012, 2014) and seven top-two finishes. He is a four-time NCAA Coach of the Year and six-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year and his swimmers have captured 35 NCAA and 63 Pac-12 titles. Internationally, he served as head coach of Team USA at the 2015 FINA World Championships and has been an assistant at the Pan-Pacific Games, World Championships and Duel in the Pool. At the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, five swimmers (Nathan Adrian, Ryan Murphy, Jacob Pebley, Josh Prenot and Tom Shields) who train under Durden in Berkeley qualified for the Rio Olympics and he was named Coach of the Meet.





Justin Howell, Women's Gymnastics
Two-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year and reigning National Coach of the Year Justin Howell heads to his first Olympic games as the head coach of the Jamaican gymnastics team. Howell will expand on his role as Toni-Ann Williams' collegiate coach, bringing a continuity to her training that has already seen Williams make upgrades to her routines with some of the most unique skills in the world. Since he was introduced as Cal's head coach in 2012, Howell has been instrumental in the revival of Cal's gymnastics program, most recently leading the Golden Bears to a program-best seventh-place finish in their first appearance at the NCAA Championships since 1992.








Kelly Knapp, Women's Field Hockey
A standout goalkeeper and then assistant coach for the Golden Bears, Kelly Knapp joins Team USA in Rio as a manager for the field hockey squad. Knapp's career as a student-athlete in Berkeley was replete with honors, including the NorPac Defensive Player of the Year award in 2004, when she led all Division I goalkeepers with 1591:51 minutes played. Her goals-against average led the NorPac Conference for three straight seasons (2002-04), and Knapp played every minute of every game during those three seasons. She graduated from Cal in 2005 with a degree in sociology and served as the head coach of Westview High School in San Diego, Calif. before returning to Berkeley as a coach.





Laurel Korholz, Women's Rowing
A former All-Pac-12 rower at Cal, Korholz has enjoyed tremendous success as an athlete and coach for Team USA. She appeared in three Olympic Games, including winning a silver medal with the Varsity 8 in 2004. Since joining the Team USA coaching staff in 2005, Korholz has led the quadruple sculls to the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics and won gold at the 2015 World Championships. Last year, Korholz was named to the Pac-12 All-Century Team.






Dr. David Kruse, Men's Gymnastics
California alum Dr. David Kruse has always worked among the best and that practice has continued long after his Golden Bear days. An NCAA gymnastics champion and All-American several times over while at Cal, Kruse has been named Team USA's men's gymnastics team physician for the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The selection should come as no surprise for the native Floridian as he's also been in that capacity for the U.S. Men's National team since 2008. Kruse also competed at the international level for the U.S. National team before attending medical school, but chose to specialize in sports medicine to stay connected with his childhood passion. He also works as the team physician for the OC Blues FC, LA Reign and is an associate physician at UC-Irvine. Kruse was a men's gymnastics captain for the Golden Bears and now has his own practice in Orange, Calif.





Chris Oeding, Women's Water Polo
Oeding is serving as an assistant coach for the USA women's water polo team, which enters the Olympic Games ranked No. 1 in the world. Oeding had a decorated playing career in Berkeley, leading the Golden Bears to a pair of NCAA championships and being named the NCAA Player of the Year in 1992. Oeding was also a three-time All-American and played in two Summer Olympics – in 1996 and 2000. Oeding has had a wildly successful coaching career in the community college ranks – leading Long Beach City College to six state championships while coaching both the men's and women's teams. He also coached at Orange Coast College, where he twice was named Orange Empire Conference Coach of the Year.





JT Okada, Men's Gymnastics
California men's gymnastics assistant coach JT Okada is a part of history. Okada, who also sits at the helm of South Africa's national team, will expand his role to the country's Olympic head coach for the 2016 Rio Games. The Golden Bear alum sat on the sidelines as an announcer for the Cal men's gym team as a student to eventually call the shots from that same position. Okada, heading into his fourth season with the Bears, coached 2016 graduate and former Cal gymnast Ryan Patterson along his journey to Olympic qualification. For Patterson and Okada, it will be their Olympic debuts, for South Africa it will be the nation's first appearance in the men's competition in more than 50 years. The anthropology major was also the president of National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs while a student and served as an instructor at Golden Bears Gymnastics prior to his full-time position with the team. A well-rounded individual, Okada worked as the Golden Bears' volunteer sports psychologist as well.