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I know Georgetown has two recent alums competing in Rio: Emily Infeld in track and Charlie Buckingham in Sailing. Both for the USA. Do any other BE teams have any Olympians this year?

Former Creighton (via Rutgers) center Gregory Echenique plays for Venezuela. He got tons of love on the internet for dominating Boogie Cousins yesterday.

Play of the game: Witness the glory of Gregory Echenique, a Venezuelan amalgam of three of my favorite inessential NBA big men of the last 10 years. He is a 6-foot-9, 260-pound Tonka truck that combines the size and maneuverability of Glen Davis, the glutes of Chuck Hayes (good eye, Doug Collins), and the beard of Kyle O’Quinn, which creates the illusion of his head being the size of an Easter Island moai.

Look at how low this dude can get! Just before he makes the spin, his ass is lower than Boogie’s bended knees — and his girth forces Cousins to keep a wide stance to make sure he’s actually covering the guy. By getting that low, his spin radius widens significantly. He gets right by Cousins. Beautiful. Echenique was Doug McDermott’s former running mate at Creighton, and is a veteran of the Venezuelan national team.

Player of the game: Can Echenique be the player of the game, too? He scored 18 points on an über-efficient 6-for-7 from the field and spent the entire game running out to the perimeter, setting screens for pick-and-rolls that he knew were never coming his way. On his one putback dunk, he wound up on the play by running around in a half-circle — this guy is the player of my heart.

https://theringer.com/team-usa-just-bat ... .uogqh78l3

Right so clearly we also have:

Jimmy Butler, Marquette
Kyle Lowery, Villanova

Any others?

Edit: David Cubillan, Marquette (Venezuela)

Here's an article from the BE conference listing all the olympians from the conference:
http://www.bigeast.com/news/2016/8/5/GEN_0805161043.aspx
22 in all:


Name BIG EAST School Country Event
Callum Hawkins Butler Great Britain Track & Field - Marathon
Victoria Mitchell Butler Australia Track & Field - Steeplechase
Rob Mullett Butler Great Britain Track & Field - Steeplechase
Gregory Echenique Creighton Venezuela Men’s Basketball
Tim Nedow DePaul Canada Track & Field - Shot Put
Doug Bruno DePaul United States Women’s Basketball, Assistant Coach
Emily Infeld Georgetown United States Track & Field - 10,000 Meters
Charlie Buckingham Georgetown United States Sailing
Michelle Konkoly Georgetown United States, Paralympics Swimming
Jimmy Butler Marquette United States Men’s Basketball
David Cubillan Marquette Venezuela Men’s Basketball
Katherine Plouffe Marquette Canada Women’s Basketball
Julian Matthews Providence New Zealand Track & Field – 1,500 Meters
Priscilla Frederick St. John’s Antigua and Barbuda Track & Field – High Jump
Marsha Henry St. John’s United States Track & Field - manager
Daryl Homer St. John’s United States Fencing
Jane Vongvorachoti St. John’s Thailand Track & Field – Marathon
Dagmara Wozniak St. John’s United States Fencing
Yury Gelman St. John’s United States Fencing – Coach
Patrick Tiernan Villanova Australia Track & Field – 5,000 Meters
Sam McEntee Villanova Australia Track & Field – 5,000 Meters
Kyle Lowry Villanova United States Men’s Basketball

Hey All,

Was curious if any current/former Big East athletes are competing in Rio. SJU has 4 Olympians and we've won our first medal (in Fencing)! Believe it or not, our Fencing team has been top 5 nationally for years. Our coach is also one of the Olympic coaches......

http://results.nbcolympics.com/athletes ... index.html

There's a thread in this from just 2 days ago it has the list of the 22 BE athletes/coaches involved in Rio.

missed it....thanks!

Threads merged.

While not technically a current Big East grad (she's a 2007 Notre Dame grad) it should be noted that women's runner Molly Huddle trains in Providence and has been coached by PC track/xc coach Ray Treacy since she graduated. Yesterday she placed 6th place in the 10,000m and set a new American record. Treacy is by far the most successful coach in the history of PC, winning two women's XC NCAA championships and countless runner up finishes in his 32 years at PC. He's also coached many individual NCAA track champions. What's even more remarkable is that up until 2014, PC didn't have an on-campus track. They had to use the surrounding roads near campus and high school tracks. Naturally, the new PC track was named the Ray Treacy Track & Field complex. Here's how Molly (and many more XC Olympians) ended up training for Treacy in Providence for anyone who's interested: http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/molly-huddle-finds-herself-in-providence