olympics
July 29, 2024
The Olympian
Hall Health rebrands as Husky Health Center and renames their building for Olympian David C. Hall.
September 4, 2021
Gold in Tokyo
Kelsey Plum, ’17, captured a gold medal at the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 3x3 women’s basketball. She was one of 31 current and former UW athletes competing.
June 7, 2021
Calling the shots
For Golf Channel analyst Paige Mackenzie, ’06, the only thing more thrilling than scoring a hole-in-one is calling the golf play-by-play at the Olympic Games.
June 2, 2018
A special time of year
This summer's Special Olympic Games likely will be the most notable sporting event at the UW and the Puget Sound region as a whole since the 1990 Goodwill Games.
December 16, 2016
Ciao, Courtney
The U.S. women’s national volleyball team couldn’t have won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero without Courtney Thompson, ’05.
June 1, 2016
The torch carrier
Letters from a young man's trip to the 1936 Olympics offer hints of the life he would live.
December 1, 2015
Character: Elise Ray
She had a rough time at the Olympics, but she recovered to help young athletes succeed.
More than Hope
Hope Solo will be in goal this summer when the U.S. defends its gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.
December 1, 2007
Joseph Rantz, 1914-2007
Joseph Rantz had a key role in what would come to be known as one of the greatest athletic contests in UW history.
December 1, 2005
Racing to Beijing
Now 27, around the age when most runners peak, Washington’s fastest human is training to qualify again for the U.S. Olympic team and show that he is one of the world’s fastest at the 2008 games in Beijing.
June 1, 1992
Olympic medalist
The first American woman to win a medal in the Olympics downhill since 1976 is UW student Hilary Lindh.