Meet the Athletes
Learn more about the Team USA
members competing
in the Olympic
and Paralympic Games Paris 2024
Shilese Jones
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
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Shilese Jones
Seattle, WA
Shilese Jones is a Team USA gymnast and six-time world medalist. At the 2022 World Championships, Shi earned all-around silver, silver in uneven bars, and a team gold. At the 2023 Worlds, she took home another team gold and bronze in both all-around and uneven bars.
@shicanfly
Katie Ledecky
SWIMMING
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Katie Ledecky
Bethesda, MD
Katie Ledecky is a three-time Olympian, seven-time Olympic gold medalist, and 21-time World Champion. She has broken 16 world records in swimming events. She has won more gold medals in individual events at the Olympics than any female swimmer in history.
@katieledecky
Daryl Homer
Fencing
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Daryl Homer
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
Daryl Homer is an American saber fencer, three-time Olympian, 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist, and youth advocate. He had the pleasure of being named Athlete Role Model
of the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos
Aires in 2018.
@daryldhomer
Jamal Hill
PARA SWIMMING
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Jamal Hill
Los Angeles, CA
Jamal Hill is a Team USA swimmer, Paralympic bronze medalist, National Champion, and World Championship medalist. Out of competition, he started Swim Up Hill to help underprivileged youth learn to swim with the goal of overcoming the drowning epidemic.
@swimuphill
Caroline Marks
SURFING
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Caroline Marks
Boca Raton, FL
Caroline Marks is an American professional surfer and the 2023 WSL Women’s World Tour Champion. She is a multiple National Champion and the youngest surfer to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games, taking fourth place in Tokyo.
@caroline_markss
Roderick Townsend
PARA TRACK & FIELD
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Roderick Townsend
Stockton, CA
Roderick Townsend is an American Paralympic track-and-field athlete, a four-time Paralympic medalist, and coach to other Paralympic athletes. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, he set a high jump world record and won gold in high jump and silver in long jump.
@thejumpaddict
Jagger Eaton
SKATEBOARDING
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Jagger Eaton
Mesa, AZ
Jagger Eaton is an Olympic skateboarder and Olympic bronze medalist. He has secured his position as a dual threat on the Team USA Skateboarding National team, the first skateboarder from any country to ever do so, and he has a goal of podiuming at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in both the men’s street and men’s park skateboarding disciplines.
@jaggereaton
Daniela Moroz
KITEBOARDING
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Daniela Moroz
San Francisco, CA
Daniela Moroz is an American kiteboarder and sailor who is competing in her first-ever Olympic Games this year in Paris. When she was just 15, she clinched her first of six consecutive World Championships. She is a four-time U.S. Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year.
@thelifeofdanielaa
Kamren Larsen
BMX
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Kamren Larsen
Bakersfield, CA
Kamren is an American cyclist and competitive BMX racer. He was named “Rookie Pro of the Year” by USA BMX, and is the current USA Cycling National Champion, Continental Champion, and Pan American Games Gold Medalist. This will be his first Olympic Games.
@kamrenlarsen
Lee Kiefer
Fencing
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Lee Kiefer
Cleveland, OH
Olympic medalist Lee Kiefer is the most decorated women’s foil fencer in US history. In 2017, Lee became the first US women’s foilist to obtain the number one individual world ranking, and the first foilist to ever win Olympic
gold in 2021.
@leetothekiefer
Chiaka Ogbogu
INDOOR VOLLEYBALL
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Chiaka Ogbogu
Coppell, TX
Chiaka Ogbogu is an Olympic gold medalist, volleyball player, and advocate. Her stellar career includes leading Team USA to victory at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and securing her team’s qualification for Paris 2024.
@chiaka11
Jeffrey Louis
BREAKING
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Jeffrey Louis
Houston, TX
Jeffrey “Jeffro” Louis is part of the first American Breaking Team in DanceSport. He placed first in FISE Montpellier World Finals and Breaking for Gold in Montreal, along with a Breaking silver medal at the Pan American Games. Additionally, he is the founder of the FitBreak fitness program
@jeffrorad
Melissa Stockwell
PARA TRIATHLON
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Melissa Stockwell
Grand Haven, MI
Melissa Stockwell is a Paralympic bronze medalist triathlete, and a four-time Paralympian. A US Army veteran, she is the first female American soldier to lose a limb in active combat and is a Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient. She is the Amputee (AK) Marathon World Record Holder (Boston) and a mother of two.
@mstockwell01
Jessica Long
PARA SWIMMING
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Jessica Long
Baltimore, MD
Jessica Long is the most decorated active Paralympian in the US, as well as a professional swimmer, author, speaker, sports personality, and advocate. She has won 16 gold, eight silver,
and five bronze medals as a five-time
Paralympian swimmer.
@jessicatatianalong
Bobby Finke
SWIMMING
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Bobby Finke
Tampa, FL
Robert “Bobby” Finke is an Olympic swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. He won the first-ever Olympic iteration of men’s 800-meter freestyle while attending the University of Florida where he was a four-time All American and SEC conference champion.
@robert_finke
