Tokyo 2020 (2021) Olympic and Paralympic Games
Participant Julimar Avila
School, Graduate Date Boston University (2019)
Olympic Event/Sport Swimming (Honduras)
Avila is a three-time All-Patriot League honoree and two-time Academic Honor Roll recipient. She captured First-Team All-League honors following the 2019 Patriot League Championships after winning the 100-meter butterfly (56.76). She also helped the Terriers' 200-meter medley relay and 400-meter freestyle relay squads to second-places finishes. She was a Second-Team All-League selection in 2016 and 2018.
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Participant McKenzie Coan
School, Graduation Date Loyola Maryland (2018)
Paralympic Event/Sport Women's Para-Swimming (USA)
Coan was a three-time gold medalist at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro after winning the 50m, 100m and 400m free events, and she is a 10-time medalist (five gold, five silver) at the World championships.
50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke, 50m Butterfly
Classification: S7, SB6, SM7
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Participant McClain Hermes
School, Graduation Date Loyola Maryland (2023)
Paralympic Event/Sport Women's Para-Swimming (USA)
Hermes, who will be entering her third season with the Greyhounds this fall, cracked the top eight in the 100-meter backstroke at the 2016 Rio Olympic before enrolling at Loyola Maryland. She also claimed gold in the 400-meter freestyle at the 2017 world championships.
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Participant Rayven Sample
School, Graduation Date Bucknell (2024)
Paralympic Event/Sport Men's 100 meters (USA)
In July, 2015, Johnson was named an assistant coach of the 2016 USA Track & Field Olympic Team that competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Participant Brad Snyder
School, Graduation Date Navy (2006)
Paralympic Event/Sport Men's Paratriathlon (USA)
Naval Academy graduate Brad Snyder will compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games as a member of the United States paratriathlon team. Paratriathlon made its debut as a medal event at the Paralympic Games Rio 2016. At the Paralympic Games Tokyo, triathletes will cover a 750-meter swim, non-drafting 20-kilometer bike and 5-kilometer run.
Snyder, who served as the captain of the Navy men's swimming team as a senior, will be guided by Greg Billington, who was a member of Team USA in the triathlon at the 2016 Olympics. Snyder lost his eyesight in a 2011 IED explosion while serving in Afghanistan. One year to the date of losing his vision, he won a gold medal in swimming at the Paralympic Games London 2012. Now a five-time gold medalist and two-time silver medalist in swimming from the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games,
Snyder earned second-team all-Patriot League honors (2004) after finishing third in the 1650 free, ninth in the 500 free and 10th in the 200 fly at the Patriot League Championship.
At the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Snyder captured three gold medals (50-, 100- and 400-meter freestyle), along with a silver medal (100-meter backstroke). He broke the world record in the S11 50- and 100-meter freestyle. Snyder also placed fourth in the 100m fly. At the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, he captured a gold medal in the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyle, in addition to a silver medal performance in the 50-meter freestyle. Snyder won three gold medals at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships (50m free, 100m free, 400m free).
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Participant Veronica Toro
School, Graduation Date: MIT, 2016
Olympic Event/Sport: Rowing (Puerto Rico)
Toro became the first Puerto Rican female rower to qualify and compete in the Olympics when she took to the water in the Women's Single Sculls in Tokyo.
She was a three-time Academic All-Patriot League selection, three-time Academic Honor Roll recipient and two-time CRCA Scholar Athlete during her four-year career at MIT. She was a member of the Engineers V8 that finished third in the grand final of the 2016 Patriot League Championship. |
Participant Joey Lye
School, Graduation Date Bucknell, head coach
Olympic Event/Sport Softball (Canada)
During her three seasons as the head softball coach at Bucknell, Joey Lye’s squads qualified for two Patriot League Championships and the Bison posted an overall record of 63-61-1 and 27-8 in League action.
With Lye competing, Canada has earned two medals at the Pan American Games -- gold in 2015 and silver in 2011 -- and two bronze medals at the World Championships. She has been a mainstay of Canada’s Women’s National Team since her debut with the squad in 2010 |
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Participant Regine Tugade-Watson
School, Graduation Date Navy (2020)
Olympic Event/Sport Women's 100 meters (Guam)
Regine Tugade-Watson earned second-team all-Patriot League accolades in 2018 and 2019. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she finished third in the preliminary round in the 100 meters (12.34). She became the first plebe to compete at the Olympic Games.
A 2020 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Tugade-Watson is the Guam national record holder in the indoor 60m, indoor 200m, indoor long jump, 100m, 200m, 400m, triple jump and 4x400m relay.
She is an experienced international competitor after competing at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing and the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London.
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Participant Anna Weis
School, Graduate Date Boston University (2021)
Olympic Event/Sport Sailing (USA)
Weis competed as a member of the Boston University women's rowing team during the 2017-18 season, sitting in the six-seat 2V8 boat that won silver during the 2018 Patriot League Championship.
In sailing, Weis finished first in the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima and claimed first-place in the US Women's Singlehanded National Championship at Mentor-on-the-Lake, Ohio in 2016. |
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