Yesterday, we introduced you to Jaden Oelrich, the U.

About student heading to the Olympics.

When you tune in to the Summer Games, you may notice a lot of Olympians.

Our college students.

And tonight, sports news.

Athletics researcher Meg Hancock tells us why the university setting produces so many world class athletes.

College athletes make up about 75% of the Olympic contingent in the United States.

The inner collegiate system in the United States is very unique to the United States, and so we have a concentrated amount of resources that we put toward sport because our society loves the competition and we love the entertainment.

But it's also a recognition that we are providing an environment that does allow people to grow into Olympic athletes and that Olympic dream and to perform on the world stage.

So when we look at the organizational structures that are put in place for athletes, particularly in this college environment, we're thinking about academic advisors.

Obviously, we have the coaching staff that's affiliated with the team, dieticians and nutritionists, mental health coaches, mental performance coaches.

We have licensed clinical social workers here, as well as psychologists working with athletes.

And then we have folks now because of name, image and likeness who are working with athletes to help them develop their own brands.

And what that looks like when we think about the resources that are around them, they're tremendous.

And so while Jayden has the opportunity and other Olympians have the opportunity to go represent their countries, it is absolutely a reflection on the quality of staff that the University of Law was hired to make sure that she has had the opportunity to grow as an athlete and as a person to experience this on the world stage.

When we think about some of those broad pressures that are placed on athletes, we inevitably understand that that can take a toll on their mental health.

And so I think the University of Louisville in particular has done a tremendous job about putting resources in place to support athletes on every team to be their best selves or to get the support and resources they need, whether it's around sport performance or whether it's around personal challenges that they might be experience that have absolutely nothing to do with sport.

So college sports specifically is integral to building that Olympic pipeline and providing athletes an opportunity for competition on the world stage because of the concentrated resources that it provides.

The opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympic Games are tomorrow at 130 Eastern.