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Four University of Hawaiʻi women’s water polo players from the past, present and future will represent three countries at the Paris Olympics.

Former Rainbow Wahine standouts Maartje Keuning (2017–18) was named to the Netherlands roster for the second straight Summer Games and Canada’s Elyse Lemay-Lavoie (2018–19, ’22) will also compete in her second Olympics.

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Keuning helped the Netherlands claim gold at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships and the European Water Polo Championships in January. All four played in the world championships in Doha, Qatar in February.

Keuning helped the Netherlands place sixth in the 2020 Tokyo Games and Canada placed seventh with Lemay-Lavoie and fellow former UH player Monika Eggens (2009–11, ’13) on the roster.

Radosavljevic played for UH in the 2022 and 2023 seasons and remained in France for the 2024 season to prepare for the Olympics. She is slated to rejoin the ‘Bows for the 2025 season.

The water polo competition is scheduled to open on July 27, at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in Paris.

Read more about the Olympic-bound Rainbow Wahine StorageRogge was a Sun Devil from 2017-2021 but took a year off after her junior season in 2019 to prepare for the 2020 Olympics with the Netherlands, though she ended up being the final roster cut ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. The Netherlands has earned an Olympic berth for the second straight Olympic Games after after defeating Spain 17-16 on penalties in the final at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka. It was the second time in history that the Dutch women have claimed the world title after they were Olympic champions in 2008.