Want to be an Olympian? Go West, young athlete.
An OlympStats.com study found that Stanford, UCLA, USC and the University of California were the top colleges attended by the 9,000-plus Americans to compete in Olympic history.
Olympic historians Bill Mallon and Hilary Evans spent the summer compiling the statistics.
They found that Stanford had at least 289 Olympians, followed by UCLA with 277, USC with 251 and Cal with 212.
Stanford and UCLA tied for the most Summer Olympians with 280.
The most Winter Olympians? The University of Minnesota with 93, more than two-thirds being hockey players.