Yellow Jackets in Paris
Nine Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will be participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris this month.
They include alumni, current student-athletes, and even two incoming first-year student-athletes. Plus, Georgia Tech Swimming and Diving Coach Courtney Shealy Hart will be there to coach one of the Olympians.
Jose Alvarado
Men’s Basketball, Puerto Rico
The leader of the Yellow Jackets’ 2021 Atlantic Coast Conference championship team will be the sixth Yellow Jacket player to compete in the Olympics since 2004.
Julia Bergmann
Women’s Volleyball, Brazil
Bergmann, a three-time All-American and the program’s most prolific scorer, becomes the first Olympian in program history as she joins medal favorites Brazil, which enters the Olympics as the No. 2-ranked team in the world.
Ariana Dirkzwager
Women’s Swimming, Laos
Dirkzwager, a business administration major, will swim the 200-meter freestyle and be coached by Georgia Tech Swimming and Diving Head Coach Courtney Shealy Hart.
Imane El Barodi
Women’s Swimming, Morocco
El Barodi, a recent Tech graduate, will swim the 100-meter breaststroke for Morocco. She competed in both the freestyle and breaststroke as a Yellow Jacket.
Chris Eubanks
Men’s Tennis, USA
Eubanks, an Atlanta native, will make his Olympic debut, along with five other first-time Olympians on the team, after he took the tennis world by storm last summer.
Nic Fink
Men’s Swimming, USA
Fink swam for the University of Georgia as an undergraduate before earning his master's in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech in 2022. He is a five-time world champion in the breaststroke.
Ela Naz Ozdemir
Women’s Swimming, Turkey
Ozdemir, an incoming first-year Tech student-athlete, will swim in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay.
Giovana Reis
Women’s Swimming, Brazil
Reis, another incoming first-year student-athlete, will swim the 4x400-meter freestyle relay.
Berke Saka
Men’s Swimming, Turkey
Saka, a third-year computer science major, will swim the 200-meter backstroke. Saka swam the same event in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
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