MARIE-LUC ARPIN
(Canada)

• Hometown: St. Lambert, Quebec
• Hawai'i connection: UH-Manoa
• DOB: 7/4/78
• Sport: Water polo
• Height: 5-8
• Weight: 145
• Position: Shooter/Driver
• Previous Olympics: 2000
• Career highlights: Training with fourth-ranked Canadian national team since leaving Hawai'i in 1998 ... Helped Canada to fifth-place finish in inaugural Olympic women's water polo competition ... Earned All-American honors as a freshman in 1998 when she led country in scoring and lifted UH to a fourth-place national finish in its first season.

LINDSEY BERG

• Hometown: Honolulu
• Hawai'i connection: Punahou '98
• DOB: 7/16/80
• Sport: Volleyball
• Height: 5-8
• Position: Setter
• Previous Olympics: First
• Career highlights: Joined national team in January, 2003, and played in all 44 matches that year ... earned Best Setter at 2003 Pan American Cup ... Guided Minnesota Chill to U.S. Professional Volleyball League championship in 2002 and was league's Outstanding Server and Setter ... three-time all-Midwest Region player for Minnesota ... finished collegiate career ranked third in all-time assists at UM ... first Gopher to play volleyball in Olympics ... winner of Minnesota's 2001-02 Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor, most prestigious award for UM female student-athlete ... three-time all-state selection for Punahou ... will play professionally in Italy next month.

NIK BERGER
(Austria)

• Hometown: Salzburg
• Hawai'i connection: UH-Manoa
• DOB: 3/18/74
• Sport: Beach volleyball
• Partner: Clemens Doppler
• Height: 6-3
• Weight: 194 pounds
• Previous Olympics: 2000
• Career highlights: Won 2003 European Championship with Doppler ... ninth-place finish at 2000 Olympics with Oliver Stamm ... Doppler injured knee last month at Grand Slam in Marseille and has been undergoing physical therapy since ... Was a primary passer for Rainbows in 1994 and '95 ... named best junior player in Austria in 1991-92 ... Austria is one of 13 European teams in 24-team men's draw.

HEATHER BOWN

• Hometown: Yorba Linda, Calif.
• Hawai'i connection: UH-Manoa
• DOB: 11/29/78
• Sport: Volleyball
• Height: 6-3
• Weight: 200
• Position: Middle Blocker
• Previous Olympics: 2000
• Career highlights: Starting for national team since before 2000 Olympics, helping U.S. to fourth-place finish in Sydney and finishing second on team in blocks, aces and hitting percentage ... plays professionally in Italy ... helped U.S. win silver at 2002 World Championships, ranking third in blocking ... First-team All-American her only two seasons at Hawai'i (1998 and '99), lifting Rainbow Wahine to a top-five ranking, NCAA Regional and WAC Championship each season ... WAC Player of the Year both seasons ... left UH with five individual records, including best hitting percentage (.378) ... As senior, led the country in blocking (2.25 per game) ... played first two seasons at UC-Santa Barbara ... All-CIF at Esperanza High, where she also swam.

BRANDON BROOKS

• Hometown: Honolulu
• Hawaii connection: Punahou '99
• DOB: 4/29/81
• Sport: Water polo
• Height: 6-6
• Weight: 235
• Position: Goalie
• Previous Olympics: First
• Career highlights: Team USA starter since 2003 World Championships ... Concluded UCLA career with school-record 700 saves, four All-American honors and two NCAA championships ... Earned spot on Bruin basketball roster as freshman ... Captain of Punahou's state championship basketball and track teams as senior ... Three-time all-state basketball selection.

ANDY BUSSEY

• Hometown: Kailua
• Hawai'i connection: Punahou '97
• DOB: 2/5/79
• Sport: Kayaking
• Event: K-2 1,000
• Partner: Jeff Smoke
• Height: 6-2
• Weight: 185
• Previous Olympics: First
• Career highlights: Placed 14th at 2003 World Championships ... part of winning K-4 200 team at 2003 U.S. National Championships ... won K-4 1,000 at 2000 National Championships ... captured five gold medals at 1999 Sprint Challenge Races ... part of National B team since graduating from juniors at age 18 ... named to 1997 Junior World Championship team ... started Olympic flatwater kayaking in 1996.

BRYAN CLAY

• Hometown: Kane'ohe
• Hawai'i connection: Castle High '98
• DOB: 1/3/80
• Sport: Track and Field
• Event: Decathlon
• Height: 5-11
• Weight: 174
• Previous Olympics: First
• Career highlights: Won U.S. championship at Olympic Trials in July with personal-best 8,660 points, ranking him third in the world ... 2004 World Indoors (heptathlon) silver medalist, where his 6,365 points made him No. 2 American all-time ... second in 2002 and 2003 U.S. Outdoor Championships, third in 2001 ... 23-time NAIA All-American, winning NAIA championships in decathlon, pentathlon and long jump (twice) ... as Castle senior in 1998 he won four golds and broke three meet records in state high school championship, taking third in the team standings by himself.

KATHY COLIN

• Hometown: Kailua
• Hawai'i connection: Punahou '92
• DOB: 2/6/74
• Sport: Kayaking
• Height: 5-7
• Weight: 145
• Events: K-2 500 and K-4 500
• Previous Olympics: 2000
• Career highlights: On every World Championship team since 2001 ... perennial top-three finisher at national championships, winning five golds and three silvers this year ... took second in K-1 at this year's trials and won K-2 and K-4 ... won gold in K-2 and silver in K-4 at last year's Pan American Games ... finished 12th in K-1 and K-2 at 2000 Olympics ...won national rowing championship at University of Washington in 1994.

STEIN METZGER

• Hometown: Honolulu
• Hawai'i connection: Punahou '91
• DOB: 11/17/72
• Sport: Beach volleyball
• Partner: Dax Holdren
• Height: 6-3
• Previous Olympics: First
• Career highlights: Best pro season was 2001 when he won $92,500 and captured first three beach titles with former Punahou and UCLA teammate Kevin Wong ... Metzger and Wong also won bronze medal at 2001 Goodwill Games ... began professional career on beach in 1996 and has won more than $300,000 ... won three NCAA titles at UCLA and was two-time All-American ... picked up Dax Holdren as partner when Wong hooked up with 2000 gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana last year ... Metzger and Holdren won silver in second international event together, the 2003 World Championships.

KELSEY NAKANELUA
(American Samoa)

• Hometown: Kane'ohe
• Hawai'i connection: Kamehameha '84, UH-Manoa
• DOB: 12/22/66
• Sport: Track and field
• Event: 100-meter sprint
• Height: 5-10
• Weight: 175
• Previous Olympics: 2000
• Career highlights: Finished eighth in his 100-meter heat at Sydney with time of 10.93 — 79th overall in qualifying ... Won Hawai'i's Fastest Human title for fifth time in 2001 by capturing Punahou Relays 100-meter sprint ... Won 100 and 400 meters at 2000 Polynesian Championships ... best 100 time is 10.59.

KRISTY ODAMURA
(Canada)

• Hometown: Richmond, B.C., Canada
• Hawai'i connection: UH-Hilo 1996-99
• DOB: 10/3/77
• Sport: Softball
• Height: 5-7
• Weight: 130 pounds
• Position: Shortstop/second base
• Previous Olympics: 2000
• Career highlights: Selected as captain for the Canadian National Team ... NCAA Division II West Region selection in 1998 and '99 ... still holds several UHH career records, including for most hits (227), runs (156), triples (19), slugging percentage (.548), walks (76), stolen bases (58) ... Only four-time NFCA Academic All-American in Vulcan history ... Played second on the Canadian National Team that finished fifth in the 1997 World Softball FastPitch Championships ... Played on Canadian junior women's team (1995)

STACEY PORTER
(Australia)

• Hometown: Tamworth, NSW
• Hawai'i connection: UH-Manoa 2001-03
• DOB: 3/29/82
• Sport: Softball
• Height: 5-11
• Position: Third base/first base
• Previous Olympics: none
• Career highlights: First indigenous Australian to represent Australia in softball at an Olympic Games (she is part Aborigine) ... Left University of Hawai'i after her junior season to join the Australian National team and is expected to join the Rainbow Wahine for her senior season ... Easton Sports Fast Pitch Softball All-American first team as a junior ... Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year as a junior after leading UH to its first Western Athletic Conference title ... Set UH records for batting average (.468) and home runs (17).

LAUREN SPALDING

• Hometown: Kula, Maui
• Hawai'i connection: Home school '98
• DOB: 3/17/80
• Sport: Kayaking
• Height: 5-8
• Weight: 145
• Events: K-2 500, K-4 500
• Previous Olympics: First
• Career highlights: Won K-2 and K-4 at U.S. Trials and Pan American Championships/Continental Olympic Qualifier ... Three-time Moloka'i- to-O'ahu World Champion and record holder, winning the 2003 race by more than 31 minutes.

CLAY STANLEY

• Hometown: Honolulu
• Hawai'i connection: Kaiser '96, UH-Manoa
• DOB: 1/20/78
• Sport: Volleyball
• Height: 6-9
• Position: Opposite
• Previous Olympics: First
• Career highlights: Honored as Best Server at NORCECA tournament in January, which Team USA won to qualify for Olympics ... MVP of 2003 NORCECA Zone Championships ... Serve clocked at 80 mph-plus. ... Stanley left UH three semesters short of a degree in Spanish to play professionally ... Set single-match UH kill record with 50 against UCLA in 1999 ... joined national team in 2000 ... has played professionally in Puerto Rico and Greece.

TANIA (BRUNTON) TUPU
(New Zealand)

• Hometown: Wellington, N.Z.
• Hawai'i connection: UH-Manoa
• DOB: 12/28/73
• Sport: Basketball
• Height: 5-11
• Weight: 154 pounds
• Position: Guard
• Previous Olympics: 2000
• Career highlights: Starter on New Zealand's first Olympic team, and scored first points ... All-Big West forward helped Hawai'i to its only conference tournament championship in 1996, leading team in scoring (19.3 points) and rebounding (8.2) ... 1996 Jack Bonham Award winner at UH ... started with New Zealand national team in 1992 ... played professionally in Australia and New Zealand, winning a WNBL title with Waikato in 2002 and leading the league in 3-point shooting last year.

BROOKE WILKINS
(Australia)