Emma Coburn, Jenny Simpson, Jeremy Dodson and Flora Duffy will compete in the Rio Games.
If you haven’t heard, the University of Colorado has an athletic department that is undoubtedly in the uppermost echelon of all of the NCAA. CU’s 27 NCAA National Championships* — 20th of all schools — represent the university as well as they could. Even more impressively, there have been over 80 Buffaloes compete in the Olympics**. In these 2016 Rio games, four graduates represent CU.
*Colorado’s 1990 football championship doesn’t count as an "official" NCAA Championship. Also of note, I’m referring only to team National Championships for simplicity.