This is a part of a series from Annenberg Media, highlighting the Olympians that USC is sending to Paris this year.

USC has one of the richest histories of any American university at the Summer Olympics. The Trojans are sending 66 to the 2024 Games in Paris, more than any other U.S. university.

Heading into these Games, USC has had 512 Olympians in its history — adding 33 first-time Olympians to the tally this year to put the total at 545 — and 326 medals across the history of the Games, again more than any U.S. university. If USC was its own country, the Trojans would be tied for the 12th-most medals in the Summer Olympics of any competing country. With 153 gold medals, USC would rank No. 11 in that category of any country.

Of all the Olympic sports, swim and dive might be the one with the richest history for USC. The Trojans have won 58 gold medals, with men winning 43 of them and women winning the other 15. USC athletes have won 136 total medals between swimming and diving, over 40% of the medals the Trojans have between all sports.

USC will return a strong contingent of its Olympic swimmers, bringing back seven of its 14 swim and dive Olympians to Uytengsu Aquatics Center this upcoming year. The Trojans are sending a 15th swimmer to the Olympics in Noelani Day, but Day did not compete for the Division I team at USC.

Here are the athletes headed to Paris for water polo who competed at USC or will compete with the Trojans. Annenberg Media will update this story with the athletes’ results at the Games.

Men’s Swim and Dive

Dylan Carter

Country: Trinidad and Tobago

Years at USC: 2014-2018

Results: Finished No. 34 in the 100m freestyle

Johnson: Carter is the first ever Trojan Olympian from Trinidad and Tobago, a small country off the coast of Venezuela, and is making his third trip to the Games. In his five years with the Trojans — after redshirting in 2016 to train for the Rio Games — Carter won four NCAA titles, all coming in relays across three years.

The 17-time All-American still holds the 200y freestyle record to go along with five relay records. After only swimming in one event in the 2016 Games, Carter competed in four solo events in the Tokyo games, with a best finish of No. 22 in the 100m freestyle.

Carter earned the honor of flag bearer for Trinidad and Tobago after setting a national and personal record in the 100m freestyle to automatically qualify for the Games. Although he is out of eligibility and no longer swimming collegiately, Carter returned to school and is earning his master’s degree in sports management at Texas A&M.

Krzysztof Chmielewski

Country: Poland

Years at USC: 2023-present

Results: Finished fourth in the 200m butterfly final, one spot off of podium position

Johnson: Krzysztof — one of the Chmielewski twins competing in the Games — is entering his second Olympics with the Polish national team. As a freshman, Chmielewski became an All-American in the 1650y freestyle, finishing fourth in the event and higher than any other Trojan since 2007.

At his first Olympics in Tokyo, Chmielewski finished seventh in the 200m butterfly. He was particularly strong in that event with the Trojans, clocking the school record in the 200y butterfly just as a freshman.

He earned a silver medal in the 200m at the 2024 European Championships, setting him up for success in this edition of the Games.

Vaggelis Makrygiannis

Country: Greece

Years at USC: 2021-2024

Results: Made it to semifinals of 100m backstroke, but was .02 seconds off of advancing to finals

Johnson: A recent USC graduate, Makrygiannis started his USC career with a set of Olympics in Tokyo and will bookend his time with the Trojans with the 2024 Games, assuming his days at USC are over after the program celebrated Makrygiannis on senior year.

Makrygiannis made it to the NCAA Championships in both 2022 and 2024, with his best solo finish coming this past season. The Trojan clocked in at No. 24 in the 200y backstroke, his best solo finish across those two seasons.

Michal Chmielewski

Country: Poland

Years at USC: 2023-present

Results: Finished ninth in the semifinals for the 200m fly, one spot off of advancing to the finals

Holton: Born in Warszawa, Poland, Chmielewski has competed at the national level for Poland since 2022 and is making his Olympic debut alongside his twin brother Krzysztof, who also just wrapped up his freshman year with the Trojans.

Chmielewski has totalled three medals in his swimming career, racking them up at the junior level, including two gold medals and one silver medal at the World Junior Championships, two silver medals and one bronze at the European Junior Championships, and one bronze medal at the European Championships.

In Poland, Chmielewski swam for Liceum Ogólnokształcące in high school and IUKS Muszelka Warszawa swim club.

During his lone season so far with the Trojans, Chmielewski qualified for the NCAA Championships, and placed 21st in the 200y butterfly with a time of 1:41.97, his season best.

Victor Johansson

Country: Sweden

Years at USC: 2019-2022

Results: Finished fifth in his heat for 400m freestyle, which was not fast enough to advance

Muruganujan: Pac-12 finalist and NCAA champion Victor Johansson is set to represent Sweden in his second Olympic Games. Johansson, recognized as one of Europe’s top young distance freestylers, made waves by setting Swedish national records at the 2017 World Championships.

During his career at USC, Johansson became a two-time Pac-12 finalist and earned an NCAA title during the 2015 season in the 400y freestyle relay. Despite battling overtraining syndrome and recovering from a bacterial infection that forced him to be put on a ventilator, Johansson’s Olympic ambitions remained strong. In 2021, he competed in the Tokyo Games, finishing 10th in the 800m freestyle and achieving a personal best.

Continuing his academic and athletic journey at the University of Alabama for the 2022-2023 school year — when he was a graduate swimmer — Johansson now returns to the Olympic stage in Paris, competing in the 400, 800 and 1500-meter freestyle events.

Artem Selin

Country: Germany

Years at USC: 2022-present

Results: Did not advance past heat stages of 50m freestyle

Johnson: One of the current Trojans on this list, Selin just wrapped up his junior year at USC. He currently ranks in the top 10 on the all-time USC rankings in the 50y and 100y freestyle, rearing up for his first Olympics.

Selin is competing for Germany, but is a dual national with Russia. It was an easy choice for Selin to swim for Germany, as Russia’s flag is banned at the Olympics due to the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Russian athletes are still allowed to take part in the Games, but are considered “Individual Neutral Athletes.”

While he has not yet taken home a title, Selin has competed in the NCAA Championships all three of his seasons with the Trojans. He had his best individual finish this past season, clocking in at No. 24 in the 50y freestyle, while participating in USC’s 400y medley relay that finished No. 22 at the NCAAs.

Nikola Miljenic

Country: Croatia

Years at USC: 2019-2022

Results: Finished No. 33 in the 100m freestyle

Johnson: One of the few Trojans with Big Ten experience — spending his freshman year at Indiana — Miljenic enters his second Olympic Games with Croatia. He competed in three events at the Tokyo Olympics, putting up a solid effort in the 50m freestyle and finishing No. 19 in that race.

While at USC, Miljenic was a two-time captain and two-time All-American, making it to three NCAA Championships across his four years with the Trojans. In his final chance at an NCAA title, Miljenic qualified in three relays and three solo events. While he did not earn a medal, Miljenic’s best finish came in the 400y freestyle relay, where he helped the Trojans finish No. 15 in the nation in that event.

Moritz Wesemann

Country: Germany

Years at USC: Incoming freshman

Results: Made it to the 3m springboard finals, but finished twelfth

Johnson: The second German on this list, Wesemann is an incoming diver to USC. He competes in the 3-meter springboard competition and will look to help the Trojans’ diving team, a program with only five men on the roster this past season.

USC already has an All-American diver in rising senior Shangfei Wang — the Trojans’ first All-American in diving since 2020 and only the seventh since 2010 — and now adds an Olympian to the diving fold.

Wesemann qualified for a quota spot after winning the 3-meter springboard event at the 2023 European Championships.

Women’s Swim and Dive

Anicka Delgado

Country: Ecuador

Years at USC: 2020-present

Results: Finished second in her 50m freestyle heat, but did not advance

Johnson: After wrapping up her senior season with the Trojans, Delgado prepares for her second Olympic Games with Ecuador. Across her four years at USC, she won five Pac-12 titles, four of them coming just this past season. She won all of her relay titles in 2024 and she won the 50y freestyle both in 2022 and 2024.

At the 2021 Olympics, Delgado finished tied for 25th in the 50m freestyle and 31st in the 100m freestyle. Her father, Felipe, was similarly an Olympic athlete, competing for Ecuador in the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games.

Delgado’s USC career is not yet over, as she’ll return to compete with the Trojans for a fifth year with a second Olympics under her cap.

Minna Abraham

Country: Hungary

Years at USC: 2023-present

Results: Made it to semifinals of 200m freestyle, but failed to advance

Johnson: Abraham just finished up an outstanding freshman year with the Trojans and is only continuing that with a trip to the Olympics. Just turning 18 back in March, Abraham was the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year after taking home two individual Pac-12 titles and helping the Trojans secure three Pac-12 relay championships.

Abraham competed in the NCAA Championships, earning first team All-American honors in five different events. For her efforts, Abraham co-won the “Newcomer of the Year Award from a Female Team” with women’s basketball’s JuJu Watkins at USC Athletics’ yearly Tommy Award.

The Budapest native will be representing her home country in the 200m freestyle after taking home a silver medal in the European Championships.

Louise Hansson

Country: Sweden

Years at USC: 2016-2020

Results: Finished eighth in 100m butterfly final, helped Sweden to fifth-place finish in 4x100m freestyle relay

Sullivan: A two-year team captain and decorated NCAA champion, Louise Hansson returns for her third Olympic Games representing Sweden. The swimmer totaled 10 conference titles — eight individual events and two relays — in her four years as a Trojan, winning three individual titles overall in the 100-yard butterfly twice and the 200-yard butterfly once. Hansson graduated USC in 2020 as that year’s Pac-12 Women’s Swimmer of the Year.

The All-American from Helsingborg won three gold medals in the 100-yard backstroke and the 4x50 and 4x100 medley relays at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships, medaling in four additional events. At the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, Hansson helped Sweden finish fifth in the 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle relays. She had similar success in the Tokyo Games, finishing fifth in the individual 100-meter butterfly and fifth in the 4x100 medley relay.

She’s traveled to each of the Games alongside her younger sister, Sophie, also an Olympian for Sweden. Sophie swam collegiately at NC State rather than joining her sister with the Trojans. Both sisters swim under their father Lars-Olaf Hansson, the head coach at their swim club Helsingborgs SS.

Kasia Wilk-Wasick

Country: Poland

Years at USC: 2012-2016

Results: Made it to the 50m freestyle finals, but finished .13 seconds off of a medal; did not advance past heat stage of 4x100m freestyle relay

Johnson: A 12-time All-American and one-time NCAA champion, Wilk-Wasick is one of the most experienced Olympic swimmers out of USC. Wilk-Wasick — whose last name was just Wilk when she swam for USC between 2012 and 2016 — is entering her fifth Games with the Polish national team.

Merely a 16-year-old at her first Olympics, the now 32-year-old even retired after the 2016 Games but came back to the sport in 2019. She had her best finish at the 2020 Olympics, getting fifth in the 50m freestyle. She competed in various relays across her first three games — winning an NCAA Championship in the 400y freestyle relay in 2015 — but only competed in the one event her last time around at the Olympics.

Wilk-Wasick is the lone Trojan who’s competing in her fifth Olympic Games this year.

Laticia-Leigh Transom

Country: New Zealand

Years at USC: 2019-2022

Results: Made it to finals of 4x200m freestyle relay, finishing eighth

Muruganujan: New Zealand native Transom has established an impressive career in competitive swimming with standout performances at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in The Bahamas. This past April, Transom secured multiple gold medals at the 2024 Apollo Games in New Zealand.

Transom’s collegiate swimming journey began in 2019 as a freshman spring semester enrollee, helping the Trojans set a school record at the NCAA Championships in the 800y freestyle relay –– just during her first season. In her sophomore and season, she claimed Pac-12 titles in the 100y freestyle and the 200y freestyle.

USC’s first-ever New Zealand swimmer at the Olympics, Transom continued swimming at the University of Hawaii for the 2022-2023 school year, where she set records in 50y freestyle, 100y freestyle and 200y backstroke. Now, she is set to compete at the Paris Olympics, where she will race in the 4x200m freestyle relay.

Noelani Day

Country: Tonga

Years at USC: N/A-2024

Results: Finished third in her 50m freestyle heat, but did not advance

Johnson: Day has one of the most interesting stories out of USC’s Olympians, as she did not compete with the Trojans’ Division I team in her time at USC. While she did swim with the school’s club team, she chose not to join the USC team because she wanted to focus on her education and family.

The Tongan will compete in her second Olympics, swimming in the 50m freestyle and finishing at No. 63. She will compete in the same event in these Games, as a recent college graduate. The heats for her event start on August 3.

Kate Miller

Country: Canada

Years at USC: Incoming freshman

Results: Finished fourth in the 10m synchro event, one spot off of podium position

Edelman: 19-year-old Kate Miller will be competing in her first Olympic Games for Team Canada. The incoming Trojan made her debut last year at the World Aquatics Championship, where she placed eighth in the women’s 10m synchro event with teammate Caeli McKay.

Miller began diving 13 years ago after an inspiring visit to the Walter Baker Pool in Ottawa with her mother where she saw a lifeguard perform a flip off the diving board. While she played other sports like soccer, she ultimately chose to continue in diving due to the training versatility and opportunity to learn new dives.

Her most recent wins include a silver from the 2024 World Aquatics Diving World Cup in Berlin, Germany with a score of 282.72 and a silver from the Super Final in Xi’an, China with a score of 296.10.

The duo qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in February, placing sixth in the 10m synchro event with a score of 287.34.