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Rio 2016 Olympic Calympian: Camille Cheng, Women's swimming, Hong Kong

Sport: Women's Swimming

Country: Hong Kong

Birthday: May 9th, 1993 (age 23)

Hometown: Beijing, China

Years at Cal: 2011-2015

Olympic appearances: 2016 is Camille's 1st Olympic appearance

Camille's Cal careers are bookended by team national championships in 2012 and then in 2015, when she served as one of the team captain.

For her freshman year, Cheng swam in the 3rd place 400 free relay at the Pac-12 championships. She also swam the 200 Free at the NCAA, but finished in 41st place (so she did not contribute points to the Golden Bears team national title).