The rest of the inductees include:
- Candace Cable (Para alpine skiing, Para Nordic skiing, Para track and field)
- Lisa Leslie (basketball), Nastia Liukin (gymnastics)
- Misty May-Treanor (beach volleyball)
- Apolo Anton Ohno (short track speedskating)
- Chris Waddell (Para alpine skiing, Para track and field)
- the 1998 U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team
- John Carlos (legend: track and field)
- Tommie Smith (legend: track and field)
- Tim Nugent (special contributor)
Dara Torres
Dara Torres; Photo Courtesy: JM STREINER
- Twelve-time Olympic medalist
- tied for most decorated female swimmer in history
- first American to swim at five Olympics
- at 41, set three American records en route to three silver medals at Beijing 2008
- 16-time national champion
- Inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2016.
Ron O’Brien
Ron O’Brien (left) with Dick Kimball; Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive
- Coached the U.S. Olympic diving team at eight straight Olympic Games between 1968-1996
- his divers won 154 gold, 90 silver and 78 bronze medals in major Olympic, world, national, NCAA and Big Ten Conference diving championships in his first 25 years of coaching
- all 12 U.S. diving individual national titles were won by his divers in 1988
- inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1988
Erin Popovich
Photo Courtesy: Swimming World Archive
- Three-time Paralympian and 19-time medalist, including 14 golds
- won seven golds in seven races, setting three world records and four Paralympic Games records at Athens 2004
- two-time winner of the ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete with a Disability
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