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Ten 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 field 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
1936 Berlin
Track and Field Tidye Ann Picket-Phillips, Low Hurdles
Go Redbirds!