5/20/2023 0 Comments Standoff 2 2022 medalMedal results: Weyant won a silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley Walsh and Douglass captured silver and bronze, respectively, in a close 200-meter individual medley race Madden was part of the relay team that won a silver medal in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay, and DeLoof earned a bronze medal for her participation in heats of the 4x100-meter freestyle relay. I’m fortunate I got to work with those athletes.” They put me on the Olympic team!’ I’m on staff because of what they did. A lot of people are like, ‘Hey, you put four people, five people on the Olympic team!’ I’m like, ‘I didn’t put anybody on the Olympic team. Olympic Team coaching staff has always been an insane dream of mine, but it’s all because of the athletes,” DeSorbo said after the Olympic Trials in June. ![]() All five women are competing for Team USA.Īs an exciting bonus, their coach, UVA head swimming and diving coach Todd DeSorbo, was selected as an assistant coach for the American team and will be in Tokyo with his UVA swimmers. Another Olympian, University of Michigan star Catie DeLoof, trains at UVA’s Aquatic and Fitness Center and will compete on the 4x100 freestyle relay team. Two of Madden’s UVA teammates, second-year student Alex Walsh and third-year student Kate Douglass, will swim in the 200 individual medley, and Emma Weyant, who will come to Grounds this fall after signing with UVA in 2020 but deferring enrollment, will swim in the 400 IM. Olympic team, joining five UVA women’s swimmers. Swimming and diving head coach Todd DeSorbo will serve as an assistant coach on the U.S. May graduate Paige Madden, who also won three individual races and a relay title at the NCAA Championships, will compete in two events: the 400-meter freestyle and the 4x200 freestyle relay. In Tokyo, five UVA swimmers – all female – will compete in various events. SwimmingĮven before the Olympics, this has been a banner year for UVA’s swimming and diving team, as the women’s team captured its first NCAA title and the men’s team placed ninth at the NCAA championships, the second-best finish in program history. Get to know them now so that you can cheer them on. When the 2020 Summer Olympics kick off July 23 in Tokyo – after a yearlong pandemic delay – UVA will be well-represented, with student-athletes past and present, as well as several coaches, joining in the competition. No matter where they are, or what country for which they are competing, these athletes have one thing in common: they have all called the University of Virginia home. ![]() Still more will be on the open water, rowing for gold in long, narrow boats. Others will be on the basketball court or on the soccer pitch, hoping to add to an already impressive collection of medals. Ome will be in the pool, swimming for a gold medal just months after capturing a national title. Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect medal results as the 2020 Olympic Games unfold.
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