By Adam Fogle | July 23rd, 2008 | 2 comments

CURRENT, FORMER GAMECOCKS REPRESENT THREE NATIONS

University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley will be one of 12 Gamecocks athletes and coaches representing their countries at the Olympic Games next month in Beijing, China.

Staley, who only recently signed a contract with USC, will serve as the Assistant Coach for Team USA Women’s Basketball.

Former Gamecock goalkeeper Brad Guzan will represent the U.S. in men’s soccer while Sharntelle McLean will compete in women’s freestyle swimming for Trinidad & Tobago.

Nine other athletes will . They are Americans Leroy Dixon, Natasha Hastings, Mechelle Lewis, Rodney Martin, Tiffany Ross-Williams, and Terrence Trammell and Jamaicans Aleen Bailey, Chelsea Hammond, and Shevon Stoddart.

The XXIX Summer Olympics begin Friday, Aug. 8 and run through Sunday, Aug. 24 and will be broadcast on NBC.


2 Responses to “USC sends 12 to Olympics”

  1. 1.
    Posted by johndozier on 07/23/08 at 4:43 pm

    congratulations, we should get something for all the money USC spends on athletics. Now if they just had an olympic football team……

  2. 2.
    Posted by loulou on 07/24/08 at 6:46 am

    South Carolina should be proud of all of these fine people…….. now if our pols could take some lessons in being the best…….

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