Bruin athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics

The Paris 2024 Olympics starts this Friday, July 26. When watching the games, keep an eye out for UCLA student athletes like Angela Dugalić, Chase Dodd, Ryder Dodd and Emma Malabuyo. They will continue UCLA’s long legacy of Olympians: according to UCLA Athletics, 412 current and former UCLA students have made it to the Olympics.

Angela Dugalić - Women’s basketball

Incoming fifth-year student Angela Dugalić will compete on the Serbian women’s basketball team at Paris this summer. This will be Dugalić’s second time at the Olympic Games; she competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with the Serbian team, which placed fourth overall. To read more about Dugalić, click the link below. 

Chase and Ryder Dodd - Men’s water polo

Chase and Ryder Dodd (incoming senior and freshman UCLA students respectively) are slated to compete on the U.S. Olympic men’s water polo team. Chase took the past year off the UCLA team to train for the Olympics and his brother Ryder will be the second UCLA men’s water polo athlete to go to the Olympics before attending UCLA. To read more about the Dodd brothers’ journey to the Olympics, click the link below.

Emma Malabuyo - Women’s gymnastics

After attending the 2020 Olympics as an alternate on the U.S. women’s gymnastics team, incoming UCLA senior Emma Malabuyo is returning to the 2024 Olympics to represent the Philippines. To learn more about Malabuyo, click the link below.

For more information about UCLA’s many storied Olympians, visit the UCLA Athletics website, linked through the button below.

Not only are Bruin athletes heading to Paris, Associated Students UCLA (ASUCLA) is going, too! ASUCLA will host a cafe experience, Cafe UCLA, to spread UCLA brand affinity among Bruins and UCLA alumni abroad and tie in the 2028 Olympics, to be held in Los Angeles. To learn more about Cafe UCLA, check out this ASUCLA press release.

Enjoy the Olympic Games and go Bruins!