Student athletes across the world dream of one day making it to the Olympics.

And for one University of Louisville athlete, her dream is coming true.

Discus thrower Jaden Oelrich qualified for Team USA in June, becoming the first U of L track and field athlete to go to the games and program history.

Hear about Jaden's journey to the world stage and to Knight's look at sports news.

You know, it feels amazing.

Like it means so much to me.

Like there is already a legacy here at Louisville.

I'm adding to that one.

I'm creating my own legacy, so I'm going to be happier.

I just like seeing her all the hard work and everything that's kind of come on and what she's done over the last three years to get to this point.

That's what's been pretty cool, is just seeing like she actually came in, you know, she wasn't this unbelievable, you know, thrower right at the start.

She had the workout, right.

She's got an enormous amount of talent.

Most of the throw I've ever worked with in my ten years.

But it still took some time to build technique and kind of go through all that.

So that's has been cool to see is like, hey, it pays off.

You know, it's just that message that you just keep working.

It's going to happen.

Everyone's making sure I have everything that I need, whether it be something, the track, something academically.

I mean, Louisville, Great school.

So glad I came here and it's really like prepared me for the Olympics.

It's the continuous like setting that we're always and, you know, we have so many we have such a long season that we're always like prepared to throw far.

And I feel like, you know, doing it on an even bigger stage is something that should come naturally to us.

The nice thing is I've I've got some years of experience at the world level as a professional athlete to kind of draw upon myself.

So there's been more of those conversations of, Hey, this is what to expect when you're here.

This is how to how to prepare for a European meet versus the U.S. meet or international games versus just a college move.

So it's been those type of things.

But as far as the overall what we're then how we're training and we're not going to try to reinvent the wheel, we're going to go with what got us here.

She's really three years into some high level training, right?

And so the training range is three.

You've got some of these women that are out there that are at, you know, five, six, seven, been doing it ten years, you know, at a high level.

So I think there's a lot there.

And she is the youngest female discus thrower in the comp, you know, but I think a safe point that maybe is is probably a good thing sometimes what you don't know actually is a good thing, you know, and you don't want to be for it.

But Ella, you know, that's four years away.

I can tell you the sport four years is a long time.

A lot of stuff can happen.

So you just got to try to keep going at it.

And then it really depends upon the support.

You know, after college with the post-collegiate part of it, you know, sponsorships, those things, they'll want to keep her training and going.

That's going to be kind of the next step in the process.

Well, I know it's going to be like a big change for me, but I'm trying not to think about that.

I'm trying to just think of it like another me, another chance to go out there, do good.

And we are rooting for you.

Jaden will compete on August 2nd.

The discus throw finals are August the fifth.