Tigers of the XXIXth Olympiad

16 current and former Tigers will be competing in the Beijing Olympics this year representing 8 different countries. Many are from our 2008 National Women's Outdoor Track and Filed Championship team, but also notice the Seimone Augustus/Sylvia Fowles reunion on the Women's Basketball team.







Seimone Augustus          Basketball (W)     Athlete        United States
Kelly Baptiste                 Track & Field (W)     100m     Trinidad & Tobago
Neisha Bernard-Thomas    Track & Field (W)     800m     Grenada
Heather Brand                 Swimming (W)     100m Fly     Zimbabwe
Marian Burnett                Track & Field (W)     800m     Guyana
Laverne Eve                    Track & Field (W)     Javelin     Bahamas
Sherry Fletcher               Track & Field (W)     100m     Grenada
Sylvia Fowles                 Basketball (W)     Athlete     United States
Alleyne Francique          Track & Field (M)     400m     Grenada
Lolo Jones                  Track & Field (W)     100m Hurdles     United States
Muna Lee                  Track & Field (W)     100m & 200m     United States
Miko Malberg                Swimming (M)     50m Free     Estonia
Jessica Ohanaja             Track & Field (W)     100m Hurdles     Nigeria
Isa Phillips                     Track & Field (M)     400m Hurdles     Jamaica
Richard Thompson        Track & Field (M)     100m     Trinidad & Tobago
Nickiesha Wilson          Track & Field (W)     400m Hurdles     Jamaica