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Where does Texas ranked among schools that won Olympic medals?

Texas Longhorns rank in the top three of schools that produced the most medals from the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics

A significant portion of the US Olympic team’s talent pool comes from the collegiate athletics system, which produces a large number of current and former Olympians. Roughly three-quarters of American Olympians in Paris participated in collegiate competitions. This demonstrates the value of collegiate athletics in producing elite athletes, and the University of Texas was a major resource for the United States and even other countries competing in the Summer Olympics.

Let’s look at where the Texas Longhorns ranked among other schools in terms of the amount of Olympic medals won at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.

Three schools tied at number 11. The University of Georgia, Arizona State, and Notre Dame all had former and current athletes earn 10 Olympic medals each.

Then three schools tied at number 8. The University of Kentucky, the University of Florida, and Lousiana State University.

Now here is a look at the top seven schools that produced the most Olympic athletes who won medals at the Paris Summer Games.

No. 7 UCLA Bruins

According to ncaa.com

GOLD: Jordan Chiles (gymnastics), Jrue Holiday (basketball)

SILVER: Bronte Halligan and Sienna Green (water polo)

BRONZE: Micah Ma’a (volleyball), Garrett Muagututia (volleyball), Chase Dodd (water polo), Ryder Dodd (water polo), and Max Irving (water polo)

No.6 Penn State Nittany Lions

According to psucollegian.com, Penn State did very well in these Summer Olympic games.

Penn State had a school-record 30 athletes participate in the Olympics, including 22 first-time Olympians. The Nittany Lions had the third-most athletes represented in the Big Ten and tied for the fourth-most nationally.

From July 26 to Aug. 11, Penn State athletes won 13 medals. There were two gold, three silver and eight bronze medals. The successful athletes represented the United States, Germany and Poland.

No. 5 USC Trojans

The University of Southern California not only had former and current athletes medals but they had six athletes bring home gold medals. Five of those gold medals were from track and field.

The Trojans also brought home silver in bronze medals in sports such as Water Polo and men’s volleyball.

No. 4 Virginia Caviliers

Saying that the University of Virginia did very well in swimming events in these past Summer Olympic Games is an understatement.

Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh won two gold and two silver medals each as they both had excellent performances in these Summer Olympic games.

No. 3 Texas Longhorns

The University of Texas’s former and current athletes did amazing in the Paris Summer Olympic Games.

Some of the more famous former Longhorns brought home gold medals such as Kevin Durant for Team USA basketball and Scottie Scheffler for USA gold. However, other athletes earned gold medals for the Longhorns such as Tara Davis-Woodhall, Ryan Crouser, and Julien Alfred in track and field events as well as Hubert Kos in swimming.

The Longhorns did well in the swimming pool as did Kos, with Carson Foster, Erin Gemmell, Luke Hobson, and Drew Kibler all earning silver medals. Chiaka Ogbogu also earned a silver medal as part of the USA women’s volleyball team.

Alfred as well as getting a gold medal, also brought home a silver medal from her outstanding performance on the track. She set a new national record in the 100-meter final and then, in the 200-meter, she took home a silver.

Other former and current Longhorn Olympians that brought home an Olympic medal are Caspar Corbeau, Foster, and Hobson who all earned a bronze medal in swimming.

No. 2 California Golden Bears

According to ESPN, Cal just edged out Texas by earning one more medal but the Longhorns had more gold and silver medals overall. However, Cal via their official X account (formerly Twitter) claims to have earned a total of 23 medals.

Either way according to what account and or website you want to believe, Cal is ranked second in schools with athletes who won the most medals.

No. 1 Stanford Cardinals

By far, Stanford is the school that had the most athletes earn a medal at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.

Stanford brought in 12 gold and 14 silver medals as well as 13 bronze medals from these past Summer Olympics. They are without a doubt the number one university that produced athletes that won the most Olympic medals in the Paris Summer Games.

Team USA, Steph Curry secure gold medal with thrilling win vs. France

Steph Curry can add Olympic gold medalist to his resume.

Stephen Curry can now officially add a new line to his already-decorated basketball resume. The Golden State Warriors All-Star guard is an Olympic gold medal winner. Curry didn’t only help Team USA secure the gold medal in a thrilling win over France, the two-time NBA MVP did it in style.

Following a quiet start against France, Curry came alive in signature fashion down the stretch. With the game close in the fourth quarter, Curry drilled a barrage of 3-pointers in the final three minutes, including a miraculous dagger triple over two French defenders.

Curry finished with a team-high 24 points on 8-of-14 shooting from the field with eight made 3-pointers and five assists in 30 minutes. Curry led Team USA with red-hot performances in both the semifinals and Gold Medal Game.

Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and LeBron James all tallied double-figure scoring performances in Team USA’s 98-87 win over France on Saturday in Paris.

Watch highlights from Saturday’s game in Paris via YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0EV_Ci6zlY

Team USA has now won five-straight Olympic gold medals in men’s basketball.

 

Gold Medal winner, Michael Phelps, speaks with Alabama Football

Michael Phelps delivers a powerful speech to Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide

Almost every single American will have Michael Phelps on their short list of greatest athletes ever.

Phelps made his first Olympic appearance in 2000 at only 15 years old. He took the world by storm at the 2008 Beijing Olympics when he erupted for eight gold medals, a feat that will likely never be accomplished again. In his career, Phelps captured 23 total gold medals.

This week, the Crimson Tide hosted Phelps in Tuscaloosa for a meeting with the team. Phelps delivered a powerful statement about accountability and resiliency. Phelps preaches his work ethic by saying, “From 2002 to 2008, guess how many days I took off? In those six years? None. Zero. Why? I wanted something that nobody else had the opportunity to get. I was willing to do more than anybody else on the face of the planet was willing to do. I got the results.”

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Ryder Cup: Xander Schauffele admits he wasn’t a huge golf watcher as a kid, and that Jim Nantz’s voice put him to sleep

Xander Schauffele didn’t watch much golf as a kid. Jim Nantz had a say in that.

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HAVEN, Wis. – Xander Schauffele didn’t watch much golf as a kid.

Jim Nantz had a say in that.

Golf was not on the must-watch TV list for the gold medalist. Yes, he loved golf as a kid, but it was the NFL that filled the screen. And once his San Diego Chargers were done playing, he needed a nap to get ready for Sunday Night Football.

Well, Nantz, whose signature welcome of “Hello, friends,” opens every CBS Sports broadcast he anchors, put Schauffele to sleep.

“I kind of watched golf to fall asleep on a Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. I’d practice in the morning with my dad, and then watch football at like 1:05 on CBS, and then my dad would turn golf on and I’d fall asleep and I’d wake up for the Sunday Night Football Game,” Schauffele said Wednesday at Whistling Straits before the 43rd Ryder Cup. “That was kind of my childhood. Not that I didn’t love golf, but really that was sort of the program. Once you hear Jim Nantz’s voice, you just kind of, you know what I mean?”

Just to make sure, what Schauffele meant was Nantz’s soothing tone helped close his eyelids. As for watching golf, it wasn’t until he hit his college days where it became a regular practice to sit in front of the TV and watch the game he loves.

“As a kid just like any other kid, you see Tiger in red, and he wasn’t wearing red at Ryder Cups unless that was one of the team outfits. Those were kind of the things I dreamt of as a kid,” Schauffele said. “In terms of Ryder Cups, only when I was in college I was probably very aware of it. It was sort of major championships, Players, Ryder Cup, and then I learned about the Presidents Cup shortly after.

“Those were kind of the order of how my dreams were stacked up.”

This week he’s living out one of those dreams as he’s one of six Ryder Cup rookies on Team USA. Technically, he is a rookie, but the world No. 5 played well in the 2019 Presidents Cup and has come up victorious on some of the game’s biggest stages, counting four PGA Tour titles among his haul.

Asked if he felt like a rookie, Schauffele responded, “No, not really. I mean, I am a rookie. It’s my first appearance. Knowing most of the guys on the team, knowing pretty much all the captains on the team helps me feel more comfortable.

“All the guys on my team are enemies most of the year, but for this one week we all share our thoughts and we’re all pulling for each other, and we want the best for each other because we all want to win. We stand under one flag and for one cause.

“Just try and win this thing.”

He won the main thing – the gold medal – in the Tokyo Summer Games. But his gold medal is not in the team room.

“It’s too individual,” he said. “It’s about the team this week, so it wasn’t going to make an appearance. I don’t even know where it is. I think my mom might have it back home unless my dad secretly has it on him out here.”

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Jordan Spieth on Xander Schauffele’s humility after winning gold medal: ‘If it were me or Justin, we would be wearing it at dinner’

Jordan Spieth says Nelly Korda is on an “unbelievable run” and that Xander Schauffele is humble about his gold.

Jordan Spieth shared a house with Olympic gold medal winner Xander Schauffele at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis last week, and one thing the roomies watched together was the women’s golf competition at the Tokyo Summer Games.

“Yeah, we were watching some of it last night,” Spieth said Saturday after the third round of the at TPC Southwind. “We were teeing off so early, you had to kind of go to sleep before. … I guess I went to bed when Nelly had taken a three-shot lead through 10.”

Spieth then raved about Nelly Korda, who won gold, giving the Americans a sweep of the top prizes in golf in Tokyo.

“Justin [Thomas], some of those girls live in Florida and he knows the Kordas really well, so he was kind of, we pick his brain a little bit.

“Obviously she’s on an unbelievable run, No. 1 in the world going in and winning gold in the Olympics, kind of how you want it to be, right? Best player wins.”

Schauffele, who’s been showing off his gold medal to pretty much everyone—and with good reason—brought it with him to Memphis.

“Xander obviously having the gold medal at the house is pretty cool,” Spieth said.

“He’s so humble. If it were me or Justin. .. we would just be wearing it at dinner, we wouldn’t take it off. Justin had to make him go upstairs and get it when I got here to show me, and it was super cool.”

Spieth, currently ranked second in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings, is not playing this week at the Wyndham Championship, the final regular season event before the playoffs start.

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