Meet the 35 Olympic Athletes From New Jersey

They're New Jersey's finest, and they'll represent the Garden State and all of America at the 2016 Summer Olympic games. Here is the entire list so far of New Jersey athletes who will compete in the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More names are expected to be added, as qualifying trials conclude:

Fencing

Monica Aksamit, Matawan, N.J. This Matawan Regional High School grad has taught fencing at Brookdale Community College and currently teaches fencing at St. John Vianney. She is part of the U.S. women's fencing team.

Ibtihaj Muhammad, Maplewood, N.J. She's the 2014 Senior World Team Champion, but Ibtihaj is perhaps best known for being asked to remove her hijab earlier this year at the South By Southwest festival. She will be the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete with her hijab on. Read her story here.

Dagmara Wozniak, Avenel, N.J. Wozniak moved here from Poland with her family at age 1 and began saber training. She graduated from Colonia High School and attended St. John's University.

Field Hockey

Rachel Dawson, Berlin, N.J. She was born in Camden, raised in Berlin and is a graduate of Eastern High School. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and now lives in North Carolina.

Michelle Vittese, Cherry Hill, N.J. She graduated from Camden Catholic in 2008.

Soccer

Carli Lloyd, Delran, N.J. Perhaps New Jersey's best known Olympian, Lloyd will be looking for gold after she led the U.S. women's soccer team to victory in the World Cup. Read more about Carli Lloyd here.

Tobin Heath, Basking Ridge, N.J. Heath will join Lloyd to represent Team USA in Rio, fresh off their win of the Women's World Cup. Heath is a graduate of Ridge High School and will sometimes be seen in downtown Basking Ridge, signing autographs. Read her story here.

Heather O'Reilly, East Brunswick, N.J. This East Brunswick High School alum is already a World Cup Champion and a three-time Olympic Gold winner. She returns again to join the U.S. women's team in Rio.

Swimming

Connor Jaeger, Fair Haven, N.J. Rio will actually be this Fair Haven native's second time at the Olympics. He competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he came in sixth place. Jaeger specializes in the freestyle. Read his story here.

Kelsi Worrell, Westhampton, N.J. Specializing in the 100-meter butterfly, this South Jersey native also swims for the University of Louisville.

Robert Griswold, Freehold, N.J. Griswold, who has cerebral palsy, was selected to the U.S. Paralympic men's swimming team and will compete in Rio in the Paralympic Games in August. Read his story here.

Boxing

Shakur Stevenson, Newark, N.J. This 18-year-old — who is named after the rapper Tupac Shakur —is proudly representing his hometown of Newark and says he wants to bring something positive to the city that built him. He has a 23-0 international record and has been boxing since he was 5 years old.

Gymnastics

Laurie Hernandez, Old Bridge, N.J. Born in New Brunswick, she's the first person of Hispanic heritage to compete on the U.S. Women's gymnastics team since 1984. Read her story here.

Handball

Nicolas Mukendi, Hillsborough, N.J. He played football and basketball in high school and now attends Auburn University.

Basketball
Kyrie Irving, West Orange, N.J. Taking a break from the Cleveland Cavs to compete for Team USA.

Judo

Nick Delpopolo, Westfield, N.J. 2016 is somewhat of a redemption year for this Bergen Catholic grad. Delpopolo famously made it to the Olympics in 2012, but was disqualified after his final match after testing positive for marijuana, after he said he mistakenly ate a pot brownie. The news made headlines around the world and Delpopolo told the media afterwards he was "haunted" by what happened. Read his story here.

Colton Brown, Piscataway, N.J. This judo athlete is now at San Jose State, but his hometown is Piscataway.

Rowing

Lauren Schmetterling, Moorestown, N.J. Part of the women’s eight U.S. rowing team, Lauren, pictured above, began rowing with the Moorestown Rowing Club in 2003. The 28-year-old Moorestown High School graduate has been on the national team for three years and is coached by Tom Terhaar. She is training in Princeton. Read her story here.

Tracy Eisser, Fair Lawn, N.J. She was a track and field athlete at Fair Lawn High School, winning a state championship, and then went on to row for Cornell University, where she won gold and bronze at the World Rowing Championships in 2015 and 2014, respectively. She will be on the women's quadruple sculls. Read her story here.

Sam Ojserkis, Linwood, N.J., and Steve Kasprzyk, Cinnaminson, N.J. Both are members of the U.S. men's eight rowing team, which earned its 2016 Olympic berth by taking first place at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Thomas Dethlefs, Lawrenceville, N.J. He got his start rowing for the Lawrenceville School and is an alternate on the men's rowing team.

Track and Field

Robby Andrews, Manalapan, N.J. He blew them away when he ran for Manalapan High, and Andrews continues to excel in his post-college career. "All the hard work, all those miles, all those tough days, they've all been worth it," he said Sunday. Read his story here.

Jeff Porter, Franklin, N.J. Porter, 30, a Franklin High School and University of Michigan graduate, will compete in the hurdles. This is his second Olympic quest as he also competed at the London Olympic Games. “Being a two-time Olympian is an incredible honor,” he said. “My hats go off to all the other competitors, but today was just my day. We did what we needed to do, and now we’re heading to Rio. I want to be on the medal stand. It can definitely happen.” Read his story here.

Marielle Hall, Haddonfield, N.J. This Haddonfield Memorial High School and University of Texas graduate will compete in the 10,000-meter race. Read her story here.

Ajee Wilson, Neptune, N.J. This former Neptune High School star and now a Temple University senior took second place in the 800-meter U.S. Olympic track and field trials to qualify. “My dream has come true,” she said at the time. “I’ve been thinking of this moment for a long, long time. At last it’s really happened. Wow, finally.” Read her story here.

Christina Epps, Morristown, N.J. Epps will compete for Team USA in the long jump. She is a 2009 graduate of Morristown High School and currently trains at Coppin State, which she graduated from in 2013 with a degree in psychology. Read her story here.

Keturah Orji, Mount Olive, N.J. Orji, now at the University of Georgia, specializes in the triple jump.

Nia Ali, Pleasantville, N.J. This South Jersey hurdler and 2006 Pleasantville High School graduate, 27, now lives in Los Angeles and trains at USC. She grew up in Philadelphia, but moved to Pleasantville as a high school senior. She still holds the Cape-Atlantic League 100 hurdles record, with a time of 13.65 seconds. “It’s a great day for the Greyhounds (Pleasantville’s school nickname),” her former coach and mentor, Pleasantville track and field coach Alan Laws, told the Press of Atlantic City. “I’m elated. I feel like I made it myself. She fulfilled the dreams of a lot of kids in Pleasantville and around the country.”

English Gardner, Vorhees Township, N.J. The Eastern Regional High School graduate will compete in the women's 100-meter race.

Sydney McLaughlin, Dunellen, N.J. Sydney will be a senior at Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains in the fall and will run for the U.S. Women's track and field team in the 400-meter hurdles in Rio.

Wrestling

Jordan Burroughs, Camden, N.J. The Camden native who took home gold at the London Olympics in 2012 will again compete for Team USA this year. Watch Burroughs in action here.

Frank Molinaro, Barnegat, N.J. There are two New Jersey representatives on the Team USA wrestling team, Molinaro and Burroughs. Molinaro, a Jersey Shore boy through and through, was the three-time New Jersey state wrestling champ at Manahawkin's Southern Regional High School. Read his story here.

Triathlon

Joe Maloy, Wildwood Crest, N.J. A truly well-rounded athlete, Maloy, now 30, won 12 varsity letters (cross country, track, swimming, tennis) at Wildwood Catholic High School in Wildwood Crest. He also swam for the Boston College swim team.

Shooting

Matt Emmons, Mount Holly Township, N.J. Rio will be the fourth Olympic games for Emmons. He won gold in 2004, silver in 2008 and bronze in 2012.