University of California Athletics

Nathan Adrian
Country: USA
Event: Men's Swimming - Freestyle
Hometown: Bremerton, Wash.
Years at Cal: 2006-07
     (slated to return after 2008 Olympics)

USA Swimming bio

Adrian was outstanding at the 2008 Short Course World Swimming Championships, winning the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle with a championship record with a time of 46.67. He also was a member of the U.S. gold medal-winning and world record-setting 400 frees relay. Adrian sat out the 2007-08 collegiate season to train for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As a freshman for the Bears, he placed second in the 100 butterfly at the 2007 Pac-10 championships and had an eighth-place finish in the 100 free at the 2007 NCAA meet. Adrian plans to return to the Cal squad for the 2008-09 campaign.

Martti Aljand
Country: Estonia
Event: Men's Swimming - 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke
Hometown: Tallinn, Estonia
Years at Cal: 2007-08 - present

Aljand, who recently completed his freshman year at Cal, has qualified for the Olympics and will swim for Estonia in the 100- and 200-meter breaststrokes. At the 2008 NCAA championships, he placed sixth in the 200 breast, eighth in the 100 breast and 13th in the 200 individual medley, and he swam the anchor leg of Cal's 800-free relay that placed 10th. Aljand was also third at the 2008 Pac-10 meet in the 200 IM and fifth in the 200 breast. He is a five-time Estonian champion in the 200 IM.

Henrique Barbosa
Country: Brazil
Event: Men's Swimming - 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke
Hometown: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Years at Cal: 2003-06

Schedule
Aug. 9 - 100 breaststroke heats, 23rd (1:01.11)
Aug. 12 - 200 breaststroke heats, 30th (2:12.99)

Barbosa, owner of the Cal record in the 200-yard breaststroke (1:53.97), captured both the 100 and 200 breast titles at the 2006 NCAA championships. He was an NCAA finalist in each of his first three years with the Bears, as well. Barbosa finished seventh in the 100-meter breast (1:00.33) at the 2004 Short Course World Championships. He graduated from California High School in nearby San Ramon, Calif.

Guy Barnea
Country: Israel
Event: Men's Swimming - 100 Backstroke
Hometown: Omer, Israel

Barnea, a semifinalist in the 50-meter backstroke at the World Championships in Melbourne last year, holds the Israeli record in the 50 back, 100 back and 100 butterfly. At the 2007 European Games in Paris, he took sixth place in the 100 back. Barnea competed for Cal as a freshman, had the team's third-best time in both the 100 back (48.19) and 200 back (1:43.67). He placed fifth in the 100 back at the 2007 Pac-10 meet.

Lauren Boyle
Country: New Zealand
Event: Women's Swimming - 800 Freestyle Relay
Hometown: Whenupai, Auckland, New Zealand
Years at Cal: 2007-present

Video Interview

Boyle qualified for the New Zealand Olympic team in the 800-meter freestyle relay at her country's trials in late March. During her collegiate season in 2008, she broke her own Cal record in the 1650-yard free with a time of 16:01.80 at the NCAA championships, where she finished fifth. Boyle initially set the mark of 16:03.51 when she won the event at the Pac-10 meet, snapping a record that had stood for 20 years. Her 1650 victory was Cal's first in the event since Sarah Anderson claimed the title in 1989. Boyle also placed fourth in the 500 free at Pac-10s (4:45.37). She represented New Zealand at the 2005 World Championships and placed eighth in the 800-meter free relay.

Erin Cafaro
Country: USA
Event: Rowing - Eight
Hometown: Modesto, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2002-06

US Rowing bio

A 2006 first-team All-American and All-Pac-10 team selection, Cafaro won NCAA and Pac-10 championships with Cal's varsity eight in 2005 and 2006 and was a member of the overall NCAA champions in both years. With the U.S. national team, Cafaro won gold in the four at the 2007 FISA World Championships, won bronze in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Championships, won silver in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne and won gold in the four at the 2005 FISA Under 23 World Championships. She won gold in the eight and silver in the four at the 2007 USRowing national championships

Milorad Cavic
Country: Serbia
Event: Men's Swimming - 100 Butterfly
Hometown: Tustin, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2003-06

Schedule
Aug. 12 - 100 freestyle heats, 48.15 (scratched for semifinal)
Aug. 14 - 100 butterfly heats, 1st (50.76 OR),
Aug. 14 - 100 butterfly semifinals, 1st (50.92)
Aug. 15 - 100 butterfly final, Silver (50.59, ER)

An Olympian in 2004, Cavic was 10th in the 50 (24:03) and 100 (53.06) butterfly at the 2005 World Championships. He was also the 2000 Yugoslavian champion in the 50-meter free, 100 free, 100 fly and 100 back. As a Golden Bear, Cavic won four NCAA championship events as a member of 200 and 400 medley and free relays. A 2002 graduate of Tustin High School, he won a national title in the 100-meter fly (53.30) and helped capture the 800-meter free relay title (7:44.42) as a member of the Novaquatics Club Team at the 2002 U.S. National Spring Championships.

Natalie Coughlin
Country: USA
Event: Women's Swimming - Freestyle/Backstroke/IM
Hometown: Vallejo, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2001-04

NBC Olympics.com bio

Schedule
Aug. 9 - 400 free relay final, Silver (3:34.33, AR)
Aug. 10 - 100 backstroke heats, 59.00
Aug. 10 - 100 backstroke semifinals, 59.43
Aug. 11 - 200 individual medley heats, 2:11.63
Aug. 11 - 100 backstroke final, Gold (58.96, AR)
Aug. 11 - 200 individual medley semifinals, 2:11.84
Aug. 12 - 200 individual medley final, Bronze (2:10.34)
Aug. 13 - 100 freestyle heats, 4th (53.82)
Aug. 13 - 100 freestyle semifinals, 1st (53.70)
Aug. 13 - 4x200 freestyle relay, Bronze (7:56.33, AR)
Aug. 14 - 100 freestyle final, Bronze (53.39)
Aug. 16 - 400-medley relay final, Silver (3:53.30, AR)

Arguably the greatest female swimmer in Cal history, Coughlin won 12 NCAA titles with the Golden Bears (the second-most career titles for a women's swimmer in NCAA history). She was a three-time NCAA and Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year. Her success only grew more after her collegiate tenure. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Coughlin became the third American woman to win five medals at one Olympics (the others are Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller). She took gold in the 100-meter backstroke and the 800 freestyle relay, breaking the world record in that event. Coughlin also won silver medals in the 400 free relay and the 400 medley relay, and a bronze in the 100 free. At the 2008 Olympic Trials, Coughlin lowered her world record in the 100 back to 58.97. In addition, she finished second in both the 100 free (53.83) and 200 individual medley (2:10.32).

Duje Draganja
Country: Croatia
Event: Men's Swimming - 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle
Hometown: Split, Croatia
Years at Cal: 2002-05

Draganja won a silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle (21.94) at the Athens Olympics in 2004. In addition, he finished sixth in the 100 free (49.23) and seventh in the 100 butterfly (52.46). More recently, Draganja set a world short-course record in the 50 free (20.81) at the 2008 World Championships in April. He was also third in the 100 free (46.83) in the short-course event. While at Cal, Draganja won eight individual and relay NCAA titles, including the 100 free and 100 fly in 2005 and the 100 free in 2003.

Damir Dugonjic
Country: Slovenia
Event: Men's Swimming - 100 Breaststroke
Hometown: Ravne na Koroskem, Slovenia
Years at Cal: 2007-08 - present

As a freshman, Dugonjic established a Cal record in the 100 breaststroke, swimming 52.50 in the prelims and finishing as the national runner-up at the 2008 NCAA championships. He also swam the breaststroke legs of the Bears' 400 medley relay and 200 medley relay that placed second and third, respectively, at the 2008 NCAA meet. Dugonjic helped Cal to Pac-10 titles in the 200 and 400 medley relay, swimming the breaststroke leg, and was second in the 100 breast at the 2008 Pac-10 championships.

Scott Frandsen
Country: Canada
Event: Rowing - Pair, Four
Hometown: Kelowna, B.C.
Years at Cal: 1999-2002

A three-time national champion with Cal's varsity eight at the IRA regatta (2000-02), Frandsen has excelled for Canada as part of the eight, coxless pair and coxless four. He took home gold in the pair from the recent Lucerne World Cup. He and Canada won in the eight at the 2001 Nations Cup Regatta in Austria, placed fifth in the eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics and claimed seventh in the 2005 World Championships in Japan. In the coxless pair, he took seventh in the 2002 World Championships and sixth in the 2003 Worlds. In 2006, as part of the coxless four, Frandsen was part of Canada's eighth-place finish at Worlds.

Vicky Galindo
Country: USA
Event: Softball
Hometown: Union City, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2003-05

NBCOlympics.com bio

Schedule
Aug. 11 - USA vs. Venezuela, W (11-0)
Aug. 12 - USA vs. Australia, W (3-0)
Aug. 13 - USA vs. Canada, W (8-1)
Aug. 14 - USA vs. Japan, W (7-0)
Aug. 15 - USA vs. Chinese Taipei, W (7-0)
Aug. 17 - USA vs. Netherlands, W (8-0)
Aug. 17 - USA vs. China, W (9-0)
Aug. 19 - USA vs. Japan, W (4-1)
Aug. 21 - Gold Medal Game vs. Japan, L (1-3). Silver Medal

An infielder for Team USA, Galindo will be playing in her first Olympics this summer. She was a two-time first-team All-American at Cal who finished with a .342 career batting average and led the Bears to three Women's College World Series. A native of Union City, Calif., Galindo is the third Golden Bear to be a member of the U.S. Olympic team, joining pitcher Michele Granger and catcher Gillian Boxx, who were on the 1996 squad.

Rolandas Gimbutis
Country: Lithuania
Event: Men's Swimming - 50 Freestyle
Hometown: Kaunas, Lithuania
Years at Cal: 2004-05

Gimbutis was a member of the Lithuanian Olympic team in 2000 and 2004, and has qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the 50 freestyle. At the 2004 Olympics, he placed 14th in the 100 free (49.75), was 21st in the 50 free (22.59) and swam the lead-off leg on Lithuania's 400 free relay (sixth in its heat in 3:19.28). During the 2004 World Championships, he was fifth in the 100 free with a time of 48.62. He helped Cal to NCAA titles in the 200 and 400 free relays and the 200 medley relay as a sophomore in 2005 during his Golden Bear career.

Jernej Godec
Country: Slovenia
Event: Men's Swimming - 50 Freestyle
Hometown: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Years at Cal: 2005-08

Video Interview

A member of Cal's 2008 Pac-10 champion 200 free, 200 medley and 400 medley relays, Godec placed sixth in the 50 free and 12th in the 100 free at the NCAA meet this past year. On relays, he was part of the Bears' national runner-up 400 medley relay, as well as the third place 200 free, 400 free and 200 medley relays. A veteran of international competition, he anchored Slovenia's 400 medley relay at the 2004 Olympics and placed 12th in both the 50 free and 50 butterfly at the 2007 World Championships. Godec is an immunology and molecular and cell biology major and has received a Pac-10 Postgraduate Scholarship.

Kristin Heaston
Country: USA
Event: Track & Field - Shot Put
Hometown: Pleasant Hill, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1999

NBCOlympics.com bio

In 2007, Heaston claimed her third U.S. Outdoor Championship with a personal-best throw of 61-5.75 (18.74m). She won her second U.S. Outdoor title in 2005 with a then-personal-best 61-3.5 (18.68m), and competed in the qualifying round at the World Outdoor championships. At the 2004 Olympic Games, Heaston was the first woman to throw in the qualifying round at Ancient Olympia, making her the first woman ever to compete at Olympia. After her first throw of 53-10.75 (16.41m), she fouled in her second attempt before posting her best throw of 56-4 (17.17m), coming up just short of the automatic qualifying mark of 60-8.5 (18.50m). In 2003, Heaston became the first woman to win the U.S. Indoor and Outdoor shot put titles in the same year since Connie Price-Smith did it in 2000. She was a standout at the University of Florida, before transferring to Cal when she found out her father, Steve, was suffering from brain cancer. Steve at the time was the men's water polo coach at Cal. A five-time All-American, Heaston took fourth in the 1999 NCAA championships (54-0) in her senior season, her only year with the Bears. At the Olympic Trials, she placed second with a throw of 60-2.

Elliot Hovey
Country: USA
Event: Rowing - Double Sculls
Hometown: Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.
Years at Cal: 2003-06

NBCOlympics.com bio

The former Bear, who currently rows for the California Rowing Club in Oakland, Calif., won the double sculls at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team with rowing partner Wes Piermarini. Hovey finished fourth in the double sculls at the second 2008 National Selection Regatta. While at Cal he was part of the varsity eight that captured the 2006 IRA championship as well as the '06 Pac-10 title.

Sara Isakovic
Country: Slovenia
Event: Women's Swimming - Backstroke/Freestyle
Hometown: Bled, Slovenia
Years at Cal: Incoming Freshman

As an international force in both freestyle and butterfly events, Isakovic, an incoming Cal freshman, has top world rankings in the 200 freestyle (11th 1:58.19 LCM), the 200 butterfly (14th 2:08.69) and the 400 free (89th 4:14.79 LCM). She competed in the 200 free at the 2004 Olympics and the 200 fly at the 2007 World Championships.

Jason Kidd
Country: USA
Event: Men's Basketball
Hometown: Oakland, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1993-94

NBCOlympics.com bio

Jason Kidd, an All-American point guard at Cal from 1993-94, had a tremendous impact on the Golden Bear program during his two seasons in Berkeley. He was voted National Freshman of the Year in 1993 after leading the country in steals with 110 and guiding the Bears to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. As a sophomore, Kidd was voted Pac-10 Player of the Year and a first-team Associated Press All-American when he dished out a national-best 272 assists (9.1 apg) and recorded four triple doubles. He set a school record with 18 assists at Stanford in 1994 and established a Cal mark with eight steals vs. Washington in 1993. His career total of 204 steals is also a school record. Overall, Kidd averaged 14.9 ppg and 8.4 apg as a collegian. He declared for the NBA Draft in 1994, was a taken with the second overall pick by the Dallas Mavericks and was voted Co-Rookie of the Year with Grant Hill in 1995. Over his professional career, Kidd has been named a starter in the All-Star game four times and he is a four-time first-team All-Defensive performer. This selection marks Kidd's second appearance on the U.S. Olympic team after serving as a tri-captain at the Sydney Games in 2000, when he led Team USA to a gold medal.

Bart Kizierowski
Country: Poland
Event: Men's Swimming - 50 Freestyle
Hometown: Warsaw, Poland
Years at Cal: 1997-2000

Kizierowski won two NCAA titles and seven Pac-10 titles during his Cal career and set the world's best time in the long course 50-meter freestyle (22.81) at the European Championships in 2007. This past March, he was fourth in the 50 free at the European Championships (22.27). He was a three-time All-American at Cal, and served as a volunteer assistant for the Bears after graduating.

Laurel Korholz
Country: USA
Event: Women's Rowing Assistant Coach
Hometown: La Jolla, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1990-93

US Rowing bio

An 11-time national team member and three-time Olympian, Korholz graduated from Cal with degrees in English and political science. Among the results in her last few years of competition, she won a gold medal in the eight at the 2004 BearingPoint World Cup stop in Lucerne, took gold in the eight at the 2004 BearingPoint World Cup stop in Munich and finished sixth in the quadruple sculls at the 2003 FISA World Championships. Korholz was a member of the Cal team that took second place in the 1993 Pac-10 championships. She joined the U.S. coaching staff in April of 2005 and assists U.S. women's head coach Tom Terhaar in the training, recruiting and organization of the U.S. women's national team.

Gordan Kozulj
Country: Croatia
Event: Men's Swimming - Backstroke
Hometown: Zagreb, Croatia
Years at Cal: 1996-99

Schedule
Aug. 10 - 100 backstroke heats, 24th (55.05)
Aug. 13 - 200 backstroke heats, 8th (1:57.81)
Aug. 13 - 200 backstroke semifinals, 14th (1:59.22)
Aug. 14 - 4x100-meter medley relay, 12th (3:37.69)

Kozulj will be competing in his fourth consecutive summer Olympics. At the 2004 Athens Olympics he barely missed making the finals of the 200 back, placing ninth in the semifinals. At the 2000 Olympics Kozulj placed eighth in the 200-meter back and 14th in the 100-meter back, and was a member of Croatia's 400 medley relay that placed 14th. He is a two-time European champion in the 200 backstroke and was named Croatia's Sportsman of the Year in 1999. At Cal, Kozulj earned All-America honors in 1998 and 1999, and was a member of the Bears' Pac-10 champion 400 medley relay (backstroke leg) in 1998, and was the conference champion in the 200 IM in 1999.

Jackie Lee
Country: USA
Event: Table Tennis (alternate)
Hometown: San Francisco, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2003-07

Lee became the U.S. Under-10 champion after entering the tournament as its lowest, unranked seed. She has since been the nation's top-ranked player in her age groups, including Under-16, Under-18 and Under-22. In addition to the Cal Table Tennis Club, Lee has trained with Oakland Table Tennis Club, San Diego Table Tennis Club and Angby Table Tennis Club in Sweden. Lee competed at 2004 Olympic Trials for one of two spots on the team and finished third. In January of 2008, she finished in the top four at U.S. trials in Philadelphia. At the North American Qualifiers in Vancouver, where she was the No. 7 seed, Lee won the finals of Day 3 to secure her spot as an alternate on the U.S. Olympic team. Lee travels to Beijing eligible for individual play as well as the new team event for table tennis.

Magdalena Lewy
Country: USA
Event: Track & Field - Marathon
Hometown: Oakland, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1995-97, Assistant Coach 2002-present

USA Track & Field bio
Video Interview

Lewy earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team with a second-place finish in the marathon at the Olympic Trials in Boston April 20, crossing the line in a lifetime-best 2:30.19. She led from the start until the 24th mile before being overtaken by eventual winner Deena Kastor. While a runner at Cal, Lewy earned All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 5000-meter run at the 1997 NCAA championships with a career-best time of 16:04.86. On Cal's all-time performers list, she ranks second in the 5000m (16:04.86), third in the 3000m (9:25.93) and seventh in the 1500m (4:23.34). Lewy is in her seventh year as an assistant coach with the Cal track & field program. She is married to former Cal runner Richie Boulet, and they have a son, Owen.

Martin Liivamagi
Country: Estonia
Event: Men's Swimming - 200 Individual Medley
Hometown: Tallinn, Estonia
Years at Cal: Incoming Freshman

Liivamagi is an incoming Cal freshman who reached the semifinals in the 200 individual medley at the 2007 World Championships, where he was timed in 2:02.39. He was also sixth in the 100 IM at the 2006 European Short-Course Championships. He finished 2007 ranked 26th in the world in the 200 IM and is a countryman of Cal's Martti Aljand.

Matt Macedo
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Sport: Men's Swimming - Head Coach
Hometown: San Jose, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1998-02

Macedo, who competed at Cal from 1998-99 through 2001-02, is the Olympic swim coach for Trinidad and Tobago in Beijing. In August of 2007, he was hired as assistant coach at The Race Club in Islamorada, Florida, working with former Cal Co-Head Coach Mike Bottom. Macedo came to The Race Club after three years of coaching at North Coast Aquatics in Carlsbad, Calif. He was a 20-time All-American swimmer at Cal and a member of NCAA champion 400 medley (2000) and 400 free (2002) relays. Macedo also represented the U.S. at the 2001 World University Games in Beijing, placing 10th in the 100-meter freestyle.

John Mann
Country: USA
Event: Men's Water Polo (alternate)
Hometown: Newport Beach, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2003-06

NBCOlympics.com bio

Former California water polo standout Mann, who helped power the Golden Bears to the 2006 national title, was named the winner of the 2006-07 Peter J. Cutino Award as the nation's top male collegiate water polo player. One of the top players in school history, Mann led the Bears (31-4) to both the NCAA and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation titles in 2006. He was a three-time first-team All-America, 2006 first-team NCAA All-Tournament, 2006 MPSF Tournament MVP, 2006 All-MPSF first team and Cal's 2006-07 Pac-10 Medalist. During the 2006 season, Mann was the Bears' leading scorer with 80 goals in 33 matches and was instrumental in Cal's 6-5 win over USC in the MPSF Tournament final, and 7-6 victory over the Trojans in the NCAA title match. He finished his college career with 218 goals.

Martin Maric
Country: Croatia
Event: Men's Track & Field - Discus
Hometown: Split, Croatia
Years at Cal: 2008-present

Maric made the Croatian Olympic team in the discus on July 22 when he notched an Olympic "B" qualifying and personal-best mark of 205-8 (62.68 meters). During the 2008 collegiate season, heachieved All-America status at the NCAAchampionships when he recorded a mark of 185-10 (56.64m) in the discus, taking eighth overall. It was the second time he earned All-America honors in his collegiate career. Maric represented Croatia in both thediscus and the javelin at the World University Gamesin the summer of 2007, finishing eighth in the discus. A transfer from Georgia, he earned All-America honors as a sophomore in 2006 with a sixth-place standing in the javelin at the NCAA meet. He was also the SEC runner-up in the discus with a toss of 180-4. In 2004, Maric was second in the javelin and third in the discus at the CroatianChampionships. His best marksof the 2008 campaignwere 200-7 (61.13m)in the discus (at the Texas Relays) and 220-5(67.19m) in the javelin (at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational).

Sayaka Matsumoto
Country: USA
Event: Judo
Hometown: Richmond, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2002-05

NBCOlympics.com bio
NBCOlympics.com feature
NBCOlympics.com blog

A third-degree black belt, seven-time national champion (2000-05, 2007) and alternate at the 2000 Games, Matsumoto took gold at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trails and will compete in Beijing in the 48-kilogram weight category. Born in Japan and raised in the Bay Area, Matsumoto began studying judo at age 5. Since 2000, she has medaled at major judo competitions around the world, including the USA Judo Senior National Championships, Olympic Zone Cup, Finnish Open, U.S. Open, Pan American Championships, Junior World Championships, Collegiate National Championships and National High School Championships.

Teri McKeever
Country: USA
Event: Women's Swimming - Assistant Coach
Years at Cal: 1993-present

Women's swimming head coach Teri McKeever will serve as an assistant U.S. coach for the second straight Olympiad this summer in Beijing. Regarded as one of the best swimming mentors in the United States, McKeever was the first woman to be on a U.S. Olympic swimming staff (2004) and the first women to serve as head coach of the national team at a major international meet (2006 Pan Pacific meet in British Columbia). She was an assistant coach for the U.S. team during World Championship competition in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Other international coaching duties included assistant roles at the 2001 Goodwill Games and the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships. A two-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year, McKeever has guided the Bears to 12 Top 10 national team finishes and has coached 15 Olympians, including three on the 2008 roster (Natalie Coughlin, Emily Silver and Jessica Hardy).

Dominik Meichtry
Country: Switzerland
Event: Men's Swimming - 200 Freestyle
Hometown: Rorschacherberg, Switzerland
Years at Cal: 2005-08

Schedule
Aug. 10 - 200 freestyle heats, 1:45.80
Aug. 10 - 200 freestyle semifinals, 7th (1:46.54)
Aug. 10 - 4x100-freestyle relay heats, 13th (3:16.80)
Aug. 11 - 200 freestyle final, 6th (1:46.95)
Aug. 12 - 100 freestyle heats, 16th (48.55)
Aug. 12 - 100 freestyle semifinal, 16th (49.58)

Meichtry will compete for Switzerland in the 100 and 200-meter freestyle in Beijing. At the 2008 NCAA championships, he swam the anchor leg of Cal's 400 free relay that placed third, swam the third leg of the Bears' 800 free relay that placed 10th, and was ninth in the 200 free, 11th in the 100 free and 12th in the 500 free. Meichtry reached the semifinals of the 200 free at the 2004 Olympics, and he finished 11th in the event at the 2007 World Championships. He also earned a silver medal in the 200 free at the 2004 World Cup in Durban, South Africa.

Peter Milkovich
Country: Canada
Event: Men's Field Hockey Assistant Coach
Hometown: San Francisco, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2001-present

A volunteer assistant coach under Shellie Onstead at Cal, Peter Milkovich came to Berkeley in 2001 after an accomplished field hockey career with the Canadian men's national team. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Milkovich appeared in two Olympic Summer Games for Team Canada (Seoul 1988 and Sydney 2000) and played in every international game for Canada from the 1988 Summer Olympics up to 2000, when he retired. Currently, Milkovich doubles as an analyst for Headwaters Capital, LLC, analyzing risk-management on the international equities desk.

Miguel Molina
Country: The Philippines
Event: Men's Swimming - 200 Individual medley, 200 Breaststroke
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Years at Cal: 2003-06

Schedule
Aug. 12 - 200 breaststroke heats, 27th (2:01.61)

Molina will compete for the Philippines in the 200 individual medley and 200 breaststroke in Beijing. He swam in the 2004 Olympics for the Philippines, placing second in his heat in the 200 breast (2:19.19) and third in his heat in the 200 IM (2:05.28). Molina swam the anchor leg of Cal's school-record 800 free relay, set in 2006. Has the school's fourth-best all-time mark in the 200 IM (1:45.61, set in 2005) and seventh-best all-time mark in the 400 IM (3:49.13, set in 2004).

Julie Nichols
Country: USA
Event: Rowing - Single Scull (alternate)
Hometown: Livermore, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1997-2000

US Rowing bio

Cal's Most Improved Rower in 1999, Nichols more recently competed in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Rowing Trials in the single scull. She did not win the best two out of three final series. In the 2003 World Championships, Nichols placed 13th in the C final of the lightweight single scull. In the lightweight women's double sculls, she took second in the 2005 World Championships and took ninth in the B final in the 2006 World Championships. She was also third in the LW2X at the 2006 Lucerne World Cup regatta.

Amin Nikfar
Country: Iran
Event: Track & Field - Shot Put
Hometown: Santa Clara, Calif.
Years at Cal: 2001-04

Nikfar won the shot put at the Flagstaff Invitational on June 26 with a personal-best throw of 65-4 (19.94m), earning him an Olympic `B' qualifying mark for the Olympics in Beijing and resetting his Iranian national record in the event. He will compete for Iran based on his father's Iranian heritage. Currently a volunteer coach for the Northern Arizona track & field team, Nikfar finished 21st at the 2003 NCAA championships with a mark of 57-01.50 mark (17.41m). His toss of 61-7.75 at the 2003 NCAA West Regional inked his name onto Cal's all-time list with the fifth-best mark all-time. In 2004, he would improve his collegiate-best mark to 61-11.00, which still stands fifth on Cal's all-time list. He also finished 21st at the 2004 NCAA championships (58-2.5). Nikfar won the shot put competition in 2004 for the Iranian National team at the first Asian Indoor Track & Field Championships with a throw of 18.33-meters. He also won the shot put competition at the 2003 Iranian National Championships.

Iva Obradovic
Country: Serbia
Event: Rowing - Single Scull
Hometown: Novi Sad, Serbia
Years at Cal: 2005

Schedule
Aug. 8 - Single Scull Heats, 2nd (7:49.13)
Aug. 11 - Single Scull Quarterfinals, 3rd (7:39.16)
Aug. 12 - Single Scull Semifinals, 6th (7:52.39)
Aug. 14 - Single Scull B Finals, 5th (7:53.83)

A first-team All-American at Cal in 2005, Obradovic was a member of the Bears' 2005 NCAA championship team and, later that year, won the under-23 world championship in the women's single scull. In her first foray into the senior World Championships in 2005, Obradovic placed 10th in the B final. More recently, she took fourth in the 2007 European Championships and fifth in the 2008 Munich World Cup regatta in the single scull.

Shellie Onstead
Country: USA
Event: Women's Field Hockey Assistant Coach
Hometown: Berkeley, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1995-present

Fall 2007 Cal Sports Report Video Interview

Now entering her 14th year as Cal's field hockey head coach, Shellie Onstead was the first All-American player for the Golden Bears, earning first-team honors in 1982. As coach of her alma mater, Onstead has compiled a 156-84 career record and has led Cal to seven conference titles. The six-time NorPac Coach of the Year has guided the Bears to two five NCAA Tournament appearances. She is one of the few females on the U.S. men's national team coaching staff and was the first woman ever to be named head coach of the men's under-16 national team at any age level. Onstead has also served as an assistant coach to the U.S. U-21 men's team and to the senior national team. She was elected into the Cal Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

Heather Petri
Country: USA
Event: Women's water polo
Hometown: Orinda, CA
Height: 5-11
Years at Cal: 1997-99, 2001

NBCOlympics.com bio
Heather Petri blog

Petri was Cal's 1999 and 2001 team captain and was second team all-MPSF, MPSF Tournament first team and earned first team All-National honors in 1999. The Orinda, Calif., product helped Team USA win gold at the 2007 World Championships, 2006 Holiday Cup and 2006 FINA World League. Petri tallied five goals during Super Final 2007 and guided the United States' women's water polo team to a gold medal with an 11-9 victory over Russia at the 2005 FINA Junior World Championships in Perth. Petri lives and trains in Long Beach, Calif.

Olivier Siegelaar
Country: The Netherlands
Event: Men's Crew
Hometown: Delft, the Netherlands
Height: 6-6
Years at Cal: Incoming Freshman

Olympic bio

In the 2008 Olympic final, Siegelaar's Dutch men's eight finished less than five seconds (5:25.34-5:29.26) behind the bronze-medal winning U.S. boat coached by his future Cal coach, Mike Teti.

Emily Silver
Country: USA
Event: Women's Swimming - 400 Freestyle Relay
Hometown: Bainbridge Island, Wash.
Years at Cal: 2005-08

USA Swimming bio
Winter 2008 Cal Sports Report Video Interview
Bainbridge to Beijing - a blog by Bob Silver

Silver was a member of the U.S. team at the 2007 World University Games, where she won a gold medal in the 400 free relay and a silver in the 400 medley relay. During the 2007-08 college dual season, she recorded over 10 individual first-place finishes (in dual meets). She was a member of Cal's 800-yard free relay that won the 2008 Pac-10 title (and Pac-10 meet record) in 7:04.13 and she was on the NCAA runner-up 200 free relay (1:27.52, a new school record). Silver set a Cal record in the 50 free at the 2007 NCAA meet (21.99, since broken), and she was the '07 Pac-10 champion in the 100 and 200 free. Voted team MVP as a freshman in 2005, Silver earned a bronze medal in the 400-meter free relay at the World Championships that summer. She claimed her spot on the U.S. Olympic team with a fifth-place finish in the 100 free at the trials (54.91)

Ratapong "Nuk" Sirisanont
Country: Thailand
Event: Men's Swimming - Breaststroke (alternate)
Hometown: Bangkok, Thailand
Years at Cal: 1997-2000

Sirisanont has been a member of Thailand's Olympic team during the 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic games. His best Olympic finish was 12th in the 400 IM at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. In December of 2003, Sirisanont became the first male triple gold-medal winner at the Southeast Asian Games. A member of the Cal class of 2000, Sirisanont was the 1999 Pac-10 champion in both the 200 breaststroke and 400 IM.

Mike Teti
Country: USA
Event: Men's Rowing - Head Coach
Years at Cal: 2008-present

Mike Teti, head coach of the 2008 U.S. men's Olympic rowing team, was named head men's crew coach at Cal on July 26, 2008. A longtime fixture on the national level, he has served on the U.S. coaching staff at the World Championships and Olympic Games regularly since 1996. At the AthensOlympics 2004, he directed the men's eight to a world record in its heat and an eventual gold medal, marking the first time the United States captured the men's eight since 1964. As a rower, Teti was a 12-time national team member and three-time Olympian. From 1977-93, he won 24 national titles, a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games in the four, and a bronze and a gold in the eight at the World Championships (1985 and '87). He was also a bronze medal-winner in the eight at the 1988 Olympics.

Sherry Tsai
Country: Hong Kong
Event: Women's Swimming - Backstroke/Freestyle
Hometown: Hong Kong
Years at Cal: 2005-07

Tsai, who earned All-American honors at Cal from 2005-07, also participated for her native Hong Kong in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. She holds 14 Hong Kong records and earned the Best Swimmer Award from 1998-2001 by the Hong Kong Swimming Coaches Association. Tsai has had plenty of International exposure as well, competing in the in the 2001 East Asia Games, the 2005 World University Games (where she broke two Hong Kong backstroke records) and the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships.

Grace Upshaw
Country: USA
Event: Track & Field - Long Jump
Hometown: Lafayette, Calif.
Years at Cal: 1994-97

NBCOlympics.com bio

A 2004 Olympian and four-time U.S. national champion in the long jump, Upshaw moved up from a No. 32 world ranking to a No. 5 world ranking in 2003. In her 2004 Olympics performances, Upshaw advanced to the final and took 10th overall. She unleashed a personal-best jump of 22-7 at the 2008 Olympic trials to finish second and secure her spot on the team. At the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final, Upshaw took second over with a mark of 21-9.50. While a senior during her career at Cal, Upshaw tied the fifth-best mark in school history at 20-5.75. Also during her senior campaign, she placed second at the Pac-10 championships with a mark of 20-2.50. As a junior, she posted four victories, including a then-PR of 20-0.25. Upshaw also was a sprinter at Cal, running in the 100 meters and the 200 meters.

Jake Wetzel
Country: Canada
Event: Rowing - Eight
Hometown: Saskatoon, Sask.
Height: 6-5 | Weight: 205
Years at Cal: 1998-2002

A highly decorated international rower, who recently won gold in the eight for Canada at the Lucerne World Cup, Wetzel won a silver medal in Canada's four in the 2004 Athens Olympics. At Cal, he won national championships as part of the IRA-winning varsity eight in 1999, 2001 and 2002. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Wetzel has competed for both national teams, placing seventh in the coxless pair in the 1998 World Championships for Canada and winning the four for the United States in the 1999 World Championships. In the 2000 Olympics, he took seventh place for the United States in the quadruple sculls. Wetzel rejoined his native country's team in 2003, winning the four in both the World Championships and Lucerne World Cup that year. In 2007, he and Canada won the eight at the Lucerne World Cup and the Henley Royal Regatta (Grand Challenge Cup).

Hannah Wilson
Country: Hong Kong
Event: Women's Swimming - Butterfly/Freestyle
Hometown: Hong Kong
Years at Cal: 2008-present

Video Interview

Schedule
Aug. 9 - 100 butterfly heats, 30th (59.35)
Aug. 13 - 100 freestyle heats, 26th (55.32)

Wilson will represent her native Hong Kong at the Olympics for the second time this summer. In 2004 in Athens, she set a Hong Kong record in the 100-meter freestyle. Overall, Wilson, who also competed at the 2007 World Championships, holds national records in the 100 fly (1:00.81), 50 free (26.14), 100 free (56.51) and 200 free (2:03.24). During her freshman season at Cal in 2008, she earned honorable mention All-America honors in the 100-yard butterfly (53.02) and was part of the school record-setting 200 free relay that finished as the NCAA runner-up.

Elsie Windes
Country: USA
Event: Women's water polo
Hometown: Portland, Ore.
Height: 5-10
Years at Cal: 2004-07

NBCOlympics.com bio

A three-time All-American at Cal, Windes scored 23 goals in 18 matches in her senior year, and concluded her career with 147 goals (fifth place on Cal's all-time scoring list). The Portland, Ore., native was Cal's first true freshman to ever be selected as an honorable mention All-American. Windes scored two goals at the 2007 Winter Cup and helped Team USA to a gold medal at the Pan American games with four goals and five steals. Windes guided the United States' women's water polo team to a gold medal with an 11-9 victory over Russia at the 2005 FINA Junior World Championships in Perth, Australia. Windes currently lives in Huntington Beach, Calif., and trains with the U.S. national team.