PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- Thirty-five Ivies participated in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games from Feb. 9-25 in PyeongChang, South Korea. The Ivy League contingent was the second-largest among NCAA conferences, trailing only the Big Ten.

The League’s 33 athletes and two coaches represented 7-of-8 Ivy League institutions—Brown (2), Columbia (1), Cornell (8), Dartmouth (15), Harvard (4), Princeton (1) and Yale (5)—and 6-of-92 participating countries—Bermuda (1), Canada (9), Hungary (1), Switzerland (1), Unified Korea (2) and the United States (21).  
 
Nine Ivies earned Olympic medals in PyeongChang—Lauren Gibbs (United States – silver, women’s bobsled), Laura Fortino (Canada – silver, women’s ice hockey), Brianne Jenner (Canada – silver, women’s ice hockey), Rebecca Johnston (Canada – silver, women’s ice hockey), Lauriane Rougeau (Canada – silver, women’s ice hockey), Jillian Saulnier (Canada – silver, women’s ice hockey), Laura Stacey (Canada – silver, women’s ice hockey), Laura Schuler (Canada, silver – women’s ice hockey) and Ben Scrivens (Canada – bronze, men’s ice hockey)—running the Ivy League’s all-time medal count to 475.

If the Ivy League were a country, its 475 medals would rank 16th on the all-time table—behind Japan (497) and ahead of Finland (470).

Among non-medalists, a pair of Harvard products registered significant achievements during the XXIII Olympic Winter Games. Harvard men’s ice hockey’s Ryan Donato, the lone current Ivy League student-athlete that competed in PyeongChang, paced the United States team—and the Olympic field—with five goals during the men’s ice hockey tournament. Crimson women’s ice hockey alumna Randi Griffin also made history, scoring the first-ever Olympic goal for Unified Korea on Feb. 14. The puck from Griffin's goal is headed to the Hockey Hall of Fame, where it will take up permanent residence in the Olympic history display. 

As Bermuda’s lone Winter Olympic qualifier, Dartmouth alum Tucker Murphy served as the country’s flag bearer during the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony on Friday, Feb. 9 and Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 25.  

Visit IvyLeague.com/Olympics and #OlympicIvy on social media to review coverage of the Ivies in PyeongChang from opening to closing ceremony.