2024 Summer Olympics Composite Schedule

ARLINGTON, Texas – Five athletes with ties to current Western Athletic Conference (WAC) members are bound for Paris to take part in the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games over the next month.
 
Grand Canyon senior women’s basketball player Trinity San Antonio (Puerto Rico) and senior women’s swimmer Maria Brunlehner (Kenya) will join former UNLV men’s swimmer Panos Bolanos (Greece) in the full 2024 Summer Olympic Games that will officially take place from July 26-August 11. Wyoming senior men’s swimmer Jack O’Neil and Northern Arizona sophomore women’s swimmer Keegan Knott will represent the United States in the Paralympic Games that will run from August 28-September 8.
 
San Antonio will take part in the Olympic Games for the first time representing Puerto Rico. San Antonio averaged 11.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per contest across 28 starts as a junior transfer at GCU last season, registering 2.3 steals per game to land on the conference all-defensive team in 2023-24. San Antonio was previously a 2022-23 All-WAC First Team selection after averaging 14.0 points and 5.8 rebounds per contest.
 
Brunlehner will be the lone female athlete representing Kenya in Paris after finishing atop the World Aquatics Universality system standings with 738 points earned in international competition. Brunlehner became the Kenyan national record holder in the 50-meter freestyle after posting a time of 26.12 in February at the World Aquatics Championships. The 2023 WAC Women’s Swimmer of the Year, Brunlehner repeated with a strong showing this past spring that included event wins in the 100-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard IM at the 2024 WAC Championships.
 
Bolanos recently completed a standout collegiate career at UNLV that included 11 total conference championships (four in the 200-yard backstroke, two in the 100-yard backstroke, one in the 200-yard IM, three with the 800-yard freestyle relay and one with the 400-yard freestyle relay). Bolanos, an All-American in the 200 back in 2020, helped lead UNLV to three straight team conference titles from 2021-23, and remains the WAC record holder in the 200 back (1:40.64).
 
O’Neil qualified for the Paralympics for the first time after a successful showing at the U.S. Paralympic Team Trials in Minneapolis, Minnesota. O’Neil’s top performances were in the 100-meter backstroke event with a time of 1:11.60 and the 100-meter freestyle after clocking in at 1:05.04. O’Neil has competed at the last two WAC Championships meets, improving his personal best in the 50-yard freestyle each season which included a 26.47 showing in 2024.

Knott earned a second straight berth to represent Team USA in the Paralympics, previously competing in the 400-meter freestyle as the youngest member of the U.S. roster in 2021 at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Knott’s best performance at U.S. Team Trials in Minnesota was in the aforementioned 400 free, shaving five seconds off the prelim round with a time of 4:55.34. Knott swam in four meets for Northern Arizona as a freshman in 2023-24.
 
WAC Athletes At The 2024 Summer Olympic Games And Paralympic Games
Paris, France
 
Women’s Basketball
Trinity San Antonio, Grand Canyon – Puerto Rico
July 28 vs. Serbia, July 31 vs. Spain, Aug. 3 vs. China in Group A Stage

Women’s Swimming
Maria Brunlehner, Grand Canyon – Kenya
Aug. 3 in the 50-Meter Freestyle

Men’s Swimming
Panos Bolanos, UNLV – Greece
July 27 in the 4x100-Meter Freestyle Relay
 
Men’s Para Swimming
Jack O’Neil, Wyoming – United States
Schedule TBA

Women’s Para Swimming
Keegan Knott, Northern Arizona – United States
Schedule TBA