Haas, a native of Richmond, Virginia also became the first UT student to swim the m freestyle since the Olympics in , when swimmer Josh Davis competed at the games in Sydney. Haas earned his spot on the US Olympics swim team after he beat Conor Dwyer in the m freestyle final. The official website of UT Athletics has excellent coverage of these athletes including a current medal count and schedule of when each athlete is competing.
Follow along there and on social media with the hashtag BevoInRio. The four students who were selected will live and work in Brazil for one month to cover the Olympics, while also completing assignments for the Austin-American Statesman , Orlando Sentinel , Houston Chronicle , and Philadelphia Inquirer , among other publications. Below you can find a list with current and former UT students who are participating in this years Olympic Games. Heading the list is gold medalist Ryan Crouser shot put , who shattered a year old World Outdoor Record in the shot put in winning the U.
Olympic Trials with a throw of Men's and women's swimming will have eight current or former athletes in Tokyo, including three with Team USA. Townley Haas meter freestyle, 4xmeter freestyle relay , current UT junior Drew Kibler 4xmeter freestyle relay and incoming freshman Erica Sullivan meter freestyle will represent the United States.
Current UT sophomore Caspar Corbeau meter breaststroke and meter breaststroke will compete for The Netherlands, and current UT freshman Anna Elendt meter breaststroke, 4xmeter medley relay will represent Germany.
Joanna Evans meter freestyle and meter freestyle will compete for The Bahamas, while Remedy Rule meter butterfly and meter butterfly will represent the Philippines. Osterman is a famed former Longhorn whose leftie pitching arm led the team to the Women's College World Series in both and Osterman holds the UT record in victories, shutouts and no-hitters. The veteran also has two Olympic medals under her belt from over a decade ago—gold in and silver in —before retiring in The year-old, who coaches softball at nearby Texas State University, was coaxed back out of retirement in to prepare for her final run as an Olympian.
Crouser is a reigning Olympic champion who broke the Olympic record in shot put in Rio de Janiero in Crouser has two NCAA championship titles under his belt for indoor shot put in addition to an outdoor title.
Now a track and field coach at the University of Arkansas, the odds favor Crouser to win gold once again. Tara Davis isn't just celebrating her own golden ticket to the Olympics—just after jumping 7. The two met, fittingly, at a track meet four years ago and have been watching each other compete from the sidelines ever since.
Fellow Texan athlete Sha'Carri Richardson won headlines when she broke the winning ribbon for the women's meter at the Olympic Trials and won't be competing since failing a highly-talked-about drug test, but former Longhorn Teahna Daniels punched her Olympic ticket as well with a third-place finish. National Champion in McCarter, a Copperas Cove native and recent graduate from the University of Texas, is the second Longhorn long jumper heading to Tokyo this year.
McCarter is a two-time Big 12 champion and is the No. On Sunday, former Longhorn Stacey-Ann Williams was granted the final spot in the women's 4xmeter relay for her home country of Jamaica.
Though she joined the UT track and field team in a season marred by the pandemic, Williams was still able to tab the Big 12 Women's Indoor Champion title in for the relay. Melissa Gonzalez, women's meter hurdles, Team Colombia. Talk about a power couple: Gonzalez and her husband, Detroit Lions quarterback David Blough, will compete professionally on two different continents as Gonzalez fulfills her dream to compete in the meter hurdles at the Olympics.
As a Longhorn, Gonzalez said she was never satisfied with her college career performance and knew she would continue to pursue the sport. Fast forward six years, and the moment is surreal for both of them. A post shared by Melissa Blough Gonzalez melissagonzalez5.
A Big 12 champion, Jones holds the school record for the outdoor meter and is the No. Jones will be one of eight track-and-field and swimming athletes to represent Barbados, a small Caribbean country with a population of just under ,, at the Olympic Games. Jonathan Jones has broken both school records for the Longhorns and national records for his home country of Barbados.
In , Pedrya Seymour was the first Bahamian hurdler to make it to the final round at the Rio Olympics as she grabbed a sixth-place finish for her country.
Seymour dedicated her Olympic season to her deceased brother, Keron Dean, and will continue to honor his name as she fights for a medal. Congrats Pedrya! Ogbogu is making waves in international leagues, but she gained national acclaim as a formidable middle blocker for the Texas Longhorns and U.
Off the court, Ogbogu is committed to social justice and giving Black athletes a role model within the sport. A post shared by USA Volleyball usavolleyball. When she suits up this weekend, former Longhorn Doonan will become the first Texas rower in history to make the Olympic team. Doonan, who was a two-time Big 12 conference rower of the year, and three-time conference champion in her time with UT in , will have big shoes to fill as she joins the three-time Olympic champion women's eight crew.
That helps me be where I am," Doonan told her hometown news outlet Sippican Week. Haas, another former Longhorn, already has two gold medals under his belt from the meter freestyle and 4xmeter freestyle relay in the Olympics.
Five years later, the time NCAA champion is hungry for more. Haas placed second in the meter freestyle in the Olympic trials to punch that ticket to Tokyo. A post shared by Townley Haas townleyh. Corbeau, a junior at UT, will compete in the and meter breaststroke for the Netherlands, of which he has dual citizenship. He's got more than his career riding on his shoulders—as a Dutch Olympic qualifier, he's doing what his father Jim Corbeau "barely missed out" on at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
Like his dad, who has stepped in as his coach from time to time, Corbeau almost didn't make the cut for the Olympics. But because his finish was just a fraction of a second away from qualifying, the Netherlands decided to take him. Even though he doesn't expect a medal, he's excited about the experience and hopes to continue building in the future. I'm young. I'm already doing really well—I think I'm 12th in the world right now in my respective race. A post shared by Caspar James Corbeau casparjc.
Sullivan has earned national acclaim before she even steps foot on campus as a Longhorns freshman. The year-old swimmer finished just behind star Katie Ledecky in the 1,meter freestyle as she makes way to her first Olympics.
Every time she hits the competitive stage, Sullivan swims for her father, a former competitive swimmer himself who died in She'll be more at home than many others in Tokyo; Sullivan is half-Japanese and is fluent in Japanese.
As an Asian-American and gay woman, Sullivan hopes she can help others like her get interested in her sport. A post shared by Erica Sullivan erica. Kibler, a junior at UT, has already racked up acclaim both nationally and internationally. Open Records in his specialty, the meter free relay. Though he placed just behind Haas in the free event, Kibler will swim with Haas in the 4 x meter freestyle relay. He's now No. S for the event, and even though he won't be swimming individually, he's still grateful to be headed to Tokyo.
First, a little about Perkins. She's the former executive director of TreeFolks, an Austin nonprofit dedicated to planting trees in urban and rural areas. She left that job in without knowing that a year later, she would be running a pod school for the neighborhood kids. Her children are 11 and Reverie Books in South Austin has a reading area and a children's area.
Addie Broyles. Perkins has a masters degree in forestry and grew up in the "middle of nowhere Louisiana. She eventually went back to school and became a university instructor and researcher, focusing first on swamplands and then on watersheds.
After working in environmental regulation at a water treatment plant in Austin, Perkins became the executive director of TreeFolks in During all these life and career changes, Perkins was making an annual pilgrimage to the Kerrville Folk Festival.
It used to be where you'd show up with your CD, and they'd put you on staff. Reverie Books sells a variety of notebooks, notecards, stickers, magnets and other items that aren't books, but most of the store is dedicated to books.
That's where she met David Schunck, a Vietnam war vet turned "peace-loving hippie" who ran Good Buy Books for decades. A year-old Vietnam vet and a something lesbian, it turns out they have quite a lot to say to each other.
They are both songwriters who see books as a way of building community. Schunck still has some shelves of used books in the back of the store, and the rest of the shelves are filled with contemporary and classic books, zines and non-traditional titles, puzzles, a few well-curated toys, notecards, magnets and other gifts.
And it's working. A customer left this note in Perkins' suggestion box. Perkins reaches over to the wall by her computer to peel off a handwritten note on a blue notecard. I feel seen, heard and represented," the patron wrote.
She keeps this reminder by her desk so she can remember why she opened the store in the first place. It's not nothing," she says. My wife is the breadwinner, and I'm not used to being someone who doesn't. Perkins points out the connection between starting a bookstore and spending all those years on the road as a singer-songwriter.
She says the whole family has been on board with the project, especially now that the sense of community is building. Having just come from the non-profit world, Perkins is constantly thinking about giving back to the community. In her little corner of the parking lot in front, she's hosting some outdoor events that will eventually move indoors once COVID subsides, where the rolling bookshelves can make way for chairs. Her neighbors at Captain Quackenbush's Coffeehouse next door have brought her pie, and Austin author Lauren Hough is hosting a presentation there on Friday night.
Customers can also rent out the space for a private shopping session or a date night, including cheese, wine and charcuterie. Perkins says that hers is one of many indie bookstores that have opened during the pandemic, which from a commercial perspective seems counter-intuitive.
But when thinking from the point of view of what's best for the community, it's exactly what we needed. Addie Broyles is a longtime food writer, who wrote for the Austin American-Statesman for 13 years. This piece was published in her weekly newsletter, "The Feminist Kitchen," where she shares stories about parenthood, grief, ancestry, self-healing and creativity.
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