Eight different former Illinois State student-athletes have represented their countries and their alma mater as participants in the Olympic Games. The Redbirds have been represented at the Olympic Games a total of 11 times, with former track and fi eld athlete Tidye Ann Picket-Phillips being the first Redbird Olympian, when she competed in the low hurdles of the XI Olympiad in Berlin in 1936.
Illinois State's most recent Olympian was Kevin Bracken, a 1995 graduate, who competed in wrestling at the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney in 2000.
| 2000 Australia | |
| Wrestling | Kevin Bracken |
| 1984 Los Angeles | |
| Women's Basketball | Cathy Boswell |
| 1976 Montreal | |
| Women's Basketball | Charlotte Lewis |
| Track and Field | Adeola Aboyade-Cole, 110-meter hurdles |
| Bruce Ijirigho, 400-meter dash | |
| 1972 Munich | |
| Men's Basketball | Doug Collins |
| Track and Field | Adeola Aboyade-Cole, 110-meter hurdles |
| George Daniels, 100 meter dash | |
| Bruce Ijirigho, 400-meter dash | |
| Rick Wohlhuter, 800-meter run | |
| 1936 Berlin | |
| Track and Field | Tidye Ann Picket-Phillips, Low Hurdles |
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