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.

The most-represented sport for USC, Trojan track and field has had a storied history at the Olympics.

At the conclusion of these Games, USC track and field has now earned a gold medal in eight of the last nine Summer Olympics. After winning a record 16 total medals at the Tokyo Games for athletics, the Trojans brought home nine medals at this edition of the Olympics.

Here are the athletes headed to Paris for track and field who attended USC or will compete with the Trojans this upcoming fall.

Women’s Track and Field

TeeTee Terry

Country: USA

Years at USC: 2018-2021

Event(s): 100m, 4x100m relay

Results: Won gold in the 4x100 relay, finished fifth in the 100m final and .05 seconds from a medal

Ridley: TeeTee Terry is a 100m specialist. Whether it is running the race by herself or running the 4x100 meter relay, she is always ready for the competition. Terry spent all four years of her collegiate career at USC. As a sophomore, she became a NCAA champion twice after winning the 60m at the Indoor Championships and then the 4x100m relay. She won her third NCAA title during her senior year as the anchor for the 4x100m relay. Terry still holds the USC record in 100m and is a part of the six–fastest 4x100m relays in USC history.

Terry has been competing nationally since 2013 and internationally since 2018. She has medaled in over 60% of the competitions that she has run in. Most recently, she placed third in the Olympic Trials in Eugene for 100m dash. After placing third, Terry became an Olympian for the first time.

Nicole Yeargin

Country: Great Britain

Years at USC: 2020-2021

Event(s): 4x400m relay, 4x400 mixed relay

Results: Won bronze for 4x400m relay, helped get Great Britain to finals in 4x400 mixed relay where the quartet won bronze

Lu: As the Scottish indoor record holder for the 400m, this is a remarkable feat considering Nicole Yeargin’s track career only began during her senior year of high school.

Now a two-time Olympian, Yeargin made her Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games. Despite being disqualified due to a lane infringement, she demonstrated her immense potential in the relays as part of the mixed 4x400m team.

Yeargin’s journey with USC began in 2020 when she transferred from Kent State University, where she had already made a name for herself by setting school records in both the 200m and 400m events.

She currently sits at third on the Scottish all-time list for the 400m. In 2022 and 2023, Yeargin shined on the international stage after winning two relay bronze at the World Championships.

Jasmine Jones

Country: USA

Years at USC: 2021-2024

Event(s): 400m hurdles

Results: Made it to finals, but finished fourth and .14 seconds from medal position

Ridley: Jasmine Jones is no stranger to the lanes or the big stage. The hurdler, sprinter and jumper began her professional career in 2019. She won gold in the 100m hurdles at the 2019 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships and 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships.

Jones’ USC career started in 2021. Her freshman year, she ran leadoff in USC’s NCAA championship 4x100m relay. Earlier this year, she won the 60m hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boston and took the 400m hurdles title at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene. She currently ranks in the top 10 on many USC all-time lists.

Just weeks after winning the NCAA title in Eugene, Jones competed in the Olympic trials. After finishing third in the 400m hurdles, she became an Olympian for the first time. Jones ran a personal-best 52.77 seconds to qualify.

Kyra Constantine

Country: Canada

Years at USC: 2017-2021

Event(s): 4x400m relay

Results: Made it to finals with Team Canada, but the country’s relay finished sixth

Edelman: Decorated sprinter Kyra Constantine specializes in the 400m. She began focusing on track at the age of 10 and quickly made history in the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletics Association (OFSAA) by consistently making the podium in each event she entered.

Constantine competed with the Trojans from 2017-2021, during which time she earned All-American honors five times and continued to set records. She won an NCAA title in the 4x400m relay at the 2018 Championships. Her best relay currently sits at No. 2 on the all-time 4x400m relay for USC. Constantine won the 400m title at the Canadian Athletics Championships in 2019.

In the Tokyo Olympics, she placed 15th in the 400m and fourth in the 4x100m relay, narrowly missing a spot on the podium by .6 seconds. The USC graduate again represents Team Canada in this year’s Olympic Games, running in the 4x400m.

Gianna Woodruff

Country: Panama

Years at USC: 2021-2023

Event(s): 400m hurdles

Results: Missed qualifying for semifinals by .005 seconds in repechage rounds

Johnson: Although Woodruff never competed for USC, she became a Trojan by starting graduate school for an online degree at the Dworak-Peck School of Social Work in 2021. She competed collegiately at Washington between 2012 and 2015. Woodruff made it to the NCAA Championships in both her junior and senior year, but her best finish was at No. 11 in the 400m hurdles in 2014.

Woodruff participated in the Tokyo Games, placing seventh in the 400m hurdle finals after setting a Panamanian record for the event in the semifinals. She has since broken her own record, setting a new one at the 2022 World Championships. While Woodruff started her international career with Team USA, she started to compete with Panama to honor her mother in 2016.

Despite not competing for the Trojans, Woodruff did have history at Loker Stadium as USC hosted the 2013 Pac-12 Championships, Woodruff’s second year at the conference championships.

Kendall Ellis

Country: USA

Years at USC: 2015-2018

Event(s): 400m, 4x400m relay

Results: Made it to semifinals of 400m, was a late scratch for relay that won gold medal

Ridley: Kendall Ellis excels at running the 400m dash. The two-time Olympian spent all four collegiate years at USC from 2015-2018. During her time with the Trojans, she ran leadoff or anchor on the relay team. She was a highly decorated collegiate runner, winning multiple MPSF Indoor, Pac-12 Outdoor and NCAA Championships. Ellis holds the USC record for the 400m and was the anchor on the fastest 4x400 meter relay.

Eliis kept competing after leaving USC, taking part in the USATF Championships and World Championships across multiple years. Three years after graduating from USC, she made her first Olympics. In the Tokyo Olympics, Ellis competed in the women’s 4x400m relay and the 4x400m mixed relay. The women’s team won gold and the mixed team won bronze.

Yemi John

Country: Great Britain

Years at USC: 2023-current

Event(s): 4x400m relay

Results: Helped get Great Britain to the finals, where the relay won a bronze medal

Collier: Yemi John may be a rising junior at USC, but she is already very accomplished at the international level. She earned her first medal when she finished runner-up for the 400m in the European U20 Championships. During the 2023 World Championships, John earned a silver medal in the 4x400m mixed relay and bronze in the 4x400 relay. She also has two gold medals for winning the 400m, one from the 2022 World U20 Championships U20 and the other from 2023 European U23 Championships.

John transferred to USC after attending the University of Nottingham her freshman year, where she was unable to run track due to the school not having a team. During her first year with the Trojans, John helped USC win the 4x400m Pac-12 Championship and finished fourth in the NCAA Championships for 4x400m in both indoor and outdoor. Her second year saw her take sixth place in the 400m and second in the 4x400m at the NCAA Indoor Championships. She also helped the 4x400m USC team to a third-place finish and was the runner-up in the 400m at the Pac-12 Championships.

Representing Great Britain, this is John’s Olympic debut. John qualified for the Olympics after winning the bronze medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships in the 400m event.

Amalie Iuel

Country: Norway

Years at USC: 2014-2017

Event(s): 400m hurdles, 4x400m relay

Results: Made it to semifinals of 400m hurdles, but failed to advance in relay

Edelman: Amalie Iuel first started running the 400m hurdles at age 17 while attending the International School of Bangkok. At age 19, she started at USC, quickly establishing a presence by becoming the first Trojan woman to win the Pac-12 heptathlon since 1996.

In her sophomore year, she finished second in the 4x400m relay at the NCAA Championship, earning her All-American status. By her junior year, she was competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics where she finished No. 29 in the 400m hurdles at 56.75 seconds. Senior year saw Iuel set a USC record in the 4x400m relay, a mark that still stands today.

She once set the Norway record for the 400m hurdles with a time of 54.72, but that time has since been surpassed. Iuel continued to set records as she moved into her professional career, consistently placing in the top six in the Diamond League from 2018-2021. In 2019, she won a bronze in 400m hurdles at the Summer Universiade. At the Tokyo Games, she reached the 400m hurdles semifinal.

Ashley Erasmus

Country: South Africa

Years at USC: Incoming freshman

Event(s): Shot put

Results: Suffered ankle injury during training, did not compete

Johnson: USC’s first-ever representative from South Africa at the Olympics, Erasmus is an incoming freshman for discus and shot put on the track and field team. Erasmus has a strong track record for South Africa, first winning a discus throw championship at the 2020 South African U16 Championships.

Erasmus’ personal record for shot put is 18.17m, which would already put her atop USC’s all-time record list, while her 53.10m mark for discus would put her at No. 8 on the list in that event. The Trojans have not had a shot put or discus thrower in the Olympics since the 1972 Rome Games. While USC has had female discus throwers at the Games, it has never had a female shot put Olympian before Erasmus.

The Trojans did have a discus thrower and shot putter exactly 100 years ago at the 1924 Paris Olympics. While Erasmus got injured and did not compete at this year’s Games, she will look to make her Olympic debut in 2028.

Lanae-Tava Thomas

Country: Jamaica

Years at USC: 2019-2021

Event(s): 200m

Results: Made it to semifinals, but did not advance from there

Collier: Thomas competed at USC for three years, where she helped the Trojans to the NCAA team title in 2021. She also earned an NCAA title in 2019 when she was part of the 4x100m relay team that won with a record-breaking time of 42.21 seconds when she was a freshman. After graduating from USC, she moved to Texas for her final year of college eligibility, where she helped the Longhorns win the team national championship in 2023.

A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Thomas will make her Olympic debut this summer in Paris, as she represents her home country in the 200m. She qualified for the 2024 Games after being selected in July for the Jamaican national team.

Anna Cockrell

Country: USA

Years at USC: 2017-2021

Event(s): 400m hurdles

Results: Earned a silver medal, 1.5 seconds off of the record-setting gold medal run

Sager: Anna Cockrell won three national titles in her time at USC, including 400m hurdle titles in 2019 and 2021, along with a 100m hurdles championship in 2021. Cockrell was winning world championships even before she became a four-time All-American and national champion. She claimed gold in both the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championship in Poland.

Cockrell’s worldwide spotlight continued when she represented her Trojan family and nation for Team USA at the Tokyo Games. The Charlotte, North Carolina native finished seventh in the Women’s 400m hurdles but left the Games empty-handed and broken-hearted after judges disqualified her for a controversial lane violation.

As part of her Paris 2024 Olympics preparation, Cockrell finished fifth in the Women’s 400m hurdles in last year’s World Athletics Outdoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Lorea Ibarzabal

Country: Spain

Years at USC: 2016-2017

Event(s): 800m

Results: Did not advance past repechage round

Johnson: Ibarzabal also competed in cross country for the Trojans, but the 800m is her Olympic event after running that event in her one season at USC. She won the 800m at the 2024 Spanish Championships to earn her an Olympic spot. The 2024 Games are Ibarzabal’s first Olympics.

Originally from Spain, Ibarzabal went to the University of Portland for her undergraduate track career. Her fastest time with the Pilots was better than her quickest time for the Trojans, but she did qualify for the Pac-12 Championships in her lone season at USC.

Track and field is in Ibarzabal’s blood as her mother, Patricia Padorno, competed and earned All-American honors in the mile at Kentucky.

Halle Hazzard

Country: Grenada

Years at USC: 2021-2022

Event(s): 100m

Results: Did not advance past heat stage

Johnson: Despite not competing with the Trojans, Hazzard did earn a graduate degree at USC in specialized journalism. Hazzard competed collegiately at Virginia with a pair of All-American honors to her name. She went to the NCAA Championships in 2021, finishing No. 16 in the 4x100m relay.

She is now competing in the Olympics for Grenada, a small country in the Caribbean. This is Hazzard’s first Olympic Games for a country that had only won three medals headed into the 2024 games, one of each medal type and all by Kirani James in the 400m.

Men’s Track and Field

Rai Benjamin

Country: USA

Years at USC: 2018

Event(s): 400m hurdles

Results: Won gold medals in 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay

Johnson: After winning a pair of medals in the Tokyo Olympics, Benjamin is back for more. He only spent one year with the Trojans after transferring over from UCLA, but the sprinter and hurdler won a pair of NCAA titles at USC in the outdoor championships. Benjamin still remains the record holder for the 400m hurdles and was a part of the relay team that set the 4x400m school record with fellow Olympian Michael Norman.

Just as with the Trojans, Benjamin won his two Tokyo medals in the 400m hurdles and the 4x400m relay. Benjamin continued his dominance of the 400m hurdles at the U.S. circuit, winning the past five U.S. titles in that event. While he won silver as hurdler in his Olympic debut, Benjamin looks to better his performance as he heads into these Games.

While Benjamin started off his international career by competing for Antigua — the country where his parents Winston and Jeanette are natives of — he switched over and started competing with the U.S. in 2018.

Andre de Grasse

Country: Canada

Years at USC: 2015

Event(s): 4x100m relay, 200m, 100m

Results: Won gold in relay, made it to semifinals of both 200m and 100m

Sager: Andre de Grasse previously competed in the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but is now representing Canada as a six-time medalist and flag bearer.

Despite de Grasse’s accomplishment-filled career, he didn’t start training for track seriously until age 17. He transferred to USC as a junior from Coffeyville Community College in Kansas, but forewent his final year of collegiate eligibility to accept a multi-million dollar contract with Puma. De Grasse made an impact during his short time as a Trojan, winning a Pac-12 Championship for the men’s 100m with a time of 9.97 seconds.

De Grasse competed in the Rio Olympics after leaving USC in 2015 and medaled bronze in the men’s 100m and 4x100m relay to go along with a silver in the 200m. Aside from setting the then-national record for the relay (37.64 seconds), he became the first Canadian athlete to medal in all three sprint events. De Grasse continued to break national records when he claimed gold in the Tokyo Olympics for men’s 200m, the only Canadian athlete to do so since 1966.

Michael Norman

Country: USA

Years at USC: 2017-2018

Event(s): 400m

Results: Made it to finals, but finished eighth in 400m

Johnson: A gold medal winner at the Tokyo Games with fellow Trojan Rai Benjamin, the speedy Norman is looking for a medal in a solo event this go around. Norman was a finalist in the 400m race in his first Olympics, slotting in at fifth and .12 seconds off of a bronze medal.

Norman qualified for his second Games after finishing second in the 400m at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials. After winning the U.S. title in the 400m prior to his first Olympic Games, Norman will now have to compete with fellow American Quincy Hall — the winner of the U.S title at the team trials — along with athletes from around the world to win a solo medal.

A San Diego native, Norman owns the USC record in the 200m and is second on the list in the 400m. Norman won his gold medal at the Tokyo Games in the 4x400m relay with Benjamin and will look to add more to his tally in 2024.

Aaron Brown

Country: Canada

Years at USC: 2011-2014

Event(s): 4x100m relay, 200m, 100m

Results: Won gold in relay and made it to semifinals of 200m but was disqualified in opening round of 100m

Edelman: Decorated USC alum and two-time Olympic medalist Aaron Brown competes in his fourth Olympic Games this year. The sprinter specializes in the 100m and 200m and is a member of Canada’s 4x100m relay team. He is currently ranked 12th in the world in the men’s 200m and 44th in the Men’s 100m.

Brown started running at age 16 and attended USC on a track scholarship, graduating in 2014. He won bronze for the 100m and silver for the 200m at the 2014 NCAA Championships and earned All-American status in the 100m and 200m his senior year.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, he ran the second leg of the 4x100m with the Canadian team, setting a national record time of 37.64 seconds and winning bronze, but has since beat that time and was part of the relay that ran a 37.48-second time in 2022. While competing as the leadoff runner in the 2020 Tokyo Games, he earned a silver in the 4x100m relay and advanced to his first individual final, placing sixth in the 200m with a 20.20-second time.

Jordan Scott

Country: Jamaica

Years at USC: 2021

Event(s): Triple Jump

Results: Finished No. 23 in qualifying round, failing to advance

Johnson: Scott only spent one season with the Trojans after transferring over as a three-time All-American from Virginia. At the national level, Scott has won three triple jump titles at the Jamaican Championships, including this year’s title to qualify for the Games. This is Scott’s first Olympics, looking to make a name for himself on the international stage after qualifying for the triple jump at the 2019 and 2022 World Championships.

In his lone year at USC, Scott put himself at third place in the all-time USC triple jump rankings. He won the Pac-12 title in that event in 2021 to make it to the NCAA Championships, but finished No. 12 after becoming a finalist. His personal record with the Trojans of 16.96m would have put him at No. 3 for the NCAAs that season, but Scott jumped a 15.95m to end his collegiate career.

Scott is one of nine Jamaicans from USC in this edition of the Games.

Chris Borzor

Country: Haiti

Years at USC: 2023

Event(s): 100m

Results: Did not advance out of heat stages, finishing .12 seconds short of moving on

Johnson: Borzor only spent one season with the Trojans as a graduate student in 2023, but it was a successful career, no matter how brief. The sprinter made it to the NCAA Championships for the 100m and the 4x100m relay, along with running the seventh-fastest 4x100m relay in USC history. Of the quarter in the top-10 relay, Borzor is the lone Olympian as he represents Haiti.

Born in New York, Borzor spent the first four years of his collegiate career at Cincinnati before joining the Trojans, setting school records in the 100m and 200m for the Bearcats. While he never made it to the NCAA Championships, Borzor did reach the NCAA East Preliminary Round twice. Borzor has already had success for Haiti, already setting the record for the fastest 100m in Haitian history.

Ayden Owens-Delerme

Country: Puerto Rico

Years at USC: 2019

Event(s): Decathlon

Results: Did not medal as a decathlete

Johnson: Owens-Delerme only spent his freshman year with the Trojans, but still earned the award for Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. He then moved on to Michigan, earned his undergraduate degree and then graduated with an MBA from Arkansas. He racked up conference awards after USC, taking Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year in 2021 and then SEC Field Athlete of the Year the very next year with the Razorbacks.

The former Trojan had his best season in 2022 when he won the heptathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships and the decathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The 2022 title was his lone outdoor national championship, but he still had an impressive career across his three schools.

As a freshman, Owens-Delerme set the USC decathlon record with 8,130 points, only the second Trojan to ever break the 8,000-point threshold. Competing for Puerto Rico, the 2024 Games are Owens-Delerme’s first Games.

Tade Ojora

Country: Great Britain

Years at USC: 2019-2023

Event(s): 110m hurdles

Results: Advanced to semifinals, but finished in seventh to end his Olympics

Johnson: A five-year hurdler with the Trojans, Ojora is still No. 2 on the all-time list in the 110m high hurdles event, hitting that in his final season at USC in 2023. Ojora is originally from London and is competing for his home country in his first Olympics. Merely a 24-year-old, this is likely not the only Games in Ojora’s career as he just recently wrapped up his Trojan career.

Ojora won the Pac-12 title in the 110m hurdles in 2023 and was fourth in the event at the NCAA Championships that same season. The Englishman earned All-American honors three times for the 110m hurdles in his five-year career after finishing top 10 at the NCAA Championships each of his final three seasons at USC.

USC runs in the Ojora blood, as Tade’s sister, Temi, just finished up her senior year with the Trojans. Temi ended her USC career with a record-setting season, finishing with the No. 1 triple jump in Trojan history at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds while also slotting in at No. 6 at this year’s NCAA Championships for the triple jump.