Good morning! The Muss Bus is fully loaded with its sights set on the 2024-25 season.

What else can you find in today's edition of The Three Torches?

👟 26 Trojans to compete at USATF Team Trials
🏊️ Abraham earns her way to the Paris Olympics
⚔️ And much, much more!

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🔼 Time To Go. USC track and field will be well represented at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. 11 Trojans from the 2024 team, as well as 15 former Trojans, will compete from June 21-30 for spots on the team that will head to Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

👟 See which Trojans are competing for a trip to Paris

🔼 Earned, Not Given. USC women’s swim and dive freshman, Minna Abraham, is headed to the Paris Olympics to represent her home country of Hungary. Abraham punched her ticket to her first-ever Summer Games after earning a silver medal in the 200m freestyle at the European Championships.

🔼 Final Piece. USC men’s basketball filled out its roster for the 2024-25 season with the addition of Wesley Yates III. The top 40 prospect from the 2023 recruiting class spent a year at Washington as a redshirt freshman and still has four years of eligibility entering this season.

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First Time For Everything. Trojan track and field has had 200 Olympians step on campus at USC, but there’s only one person who was the first to ever earn a gold medal.

Our question today: who was the first Trojan to earn a gold medal at the Olympics?

Think you got it? Scroll down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🏈 COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF

72 days until kickoff, Trojan Nation!

USC’s 1972 team won the program’s fifth-ever national championship after going a perfect 12-0. The Trojans sustained a No. 1 ranking during all 13 weeks in the AP Poll, outscoring opponents 467-134, and capped off the trophy-raising season with a convincing 42-17 win over No. 3 Ohio State in the Rose Bowl.

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📅 LOOKING AHEAD

Saturday, August 10

⚽️ Soccer vs. Long Beach State @ TBD in Carson, CA

Friday, August 30

🏐 Volleyball vs. Pepperdine @ 6:00pm in Malibu, CA

Sunday, September 1

🏈 Football vs. LSU @ 4:30pm in Las Vegas, NV | Tickets

⚔️ Click here to view the full USC Trojan Athletics Calendar

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Edgar Ablowich!

Ablowich earned a gold medal in the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. The distance runner was a part of the 1600m relay team, winning the first-ever gold medal as a USC Trojan.

⚔️ Have a great weekend, everyone!