ROAD TO
LOS ANGELES
MAGGIE STEFFENS - 3x Olympic Champion Water Polo
Maggie holds two degrees from Stanford University where she has a B.S. and Masters.
A 3-time Olympic Champion, 5-time World Champion and 4-time Pan American Games Champion over her storied career. In the history of women’s water polo she is the highest scoring player at the Olympic Games, World Championships, Pan American Games and at time of graduation the highest NCAA player as well.
In Winter of 2026, Maggie will become a mother for the first time with her husband Bobby. She will resume her water polo career following her time off.
Out of the pool, Maggie is a co-founder of sports data technology company 6-8 Sports with fellow Olympian & Stanford graduate, Tony Azevedo and is a member of the World Aquatics Athletes Commission.
She and Bobby reside in the SF Bay Area currently.
PAIGE MADDEN - 3x Olympic Medalist Swimming
Paige is a graduate of the University of Virginia and a member of the U.S. Olympic Swim Team at Tokyo 2020ne and Paris 2024.
A winner of two Olympic Silver medals as a member of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay team in Tokyo & Paris, she earned her first individual medal in the 800m freestyle alongside teammate Katie Ledecky (at Paris 2024) who has medaled with in all 3 events at these two Olympic Games.
Her journey back to Paris 2024 was unclear as Paige was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease which has no known cure and had to entirely change her lifestyle to help symptoms of her thyroid hormone and overcoming heart issues and bone loss. She was able to normalize levels and alleviate symptoms & under the tutelage of legendary swim coach Bob Bowman & using technology developed under UVA professor Ken Ono, Paige maximized her swimming capabilities to swim her best times of her career leading into U.S. Olympic Swim Trials & Paris 2024.
In her distinguished career, she additionally has earned Gold at the World Aquatics Championships in 2024 in a World Record setting time in the 4x200 relay and won Silver in the same event in 2021. Individually she won Silver in 2021 in the 200m Freestyle. At the Pan American Games in 2023, she won 3 Gold medals in the 400m Freestyle, 800m Freestyle and as a member of the 4x200 relay team. She added a Silver in the mixed 4x100 relay team.
At her alma mater she won 4 NCAA National Championships in 2021 in the 200 yard, 500 y, 1650 y freestyle and 4x200 y freestyle relay and had 2 silver medal finishes in the 2019 event in 500y freestyle and 4x100 free relay.
Paige was the ACC Swimmer of the Year in 2020 & 2021.
Following Paris 2024, Paige moved to the Washington DC area to begin working on pre-requisites for her physician’s assistant school admission to Stanford University which she will begin in Summer 2026..
ASHLEY SESSA - Paris 2024 Field Hockey
Ashley is a 3-time NCAA Champion in Field Hockey including back-to back in 2024 & 2025 at Northwestern University and in her lone season at the University of North Carolina in 2022.
In her 2 seasons at the B1G Ten institution she has earned First-Team All America honors and been the conference Offensive Player of the Year in addition to the All-NCAA Tournament team both seasons. Northwestern won the regular season B1G Ten Championship and in 2025 captured the B1G Ten Tournament title as well.
She has been a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team since making her debut in 2021. During this time she has won a 2023 Pan American Games Silver medal & played in 57 matches.
During the off-season, she splits time between her hometown in the greater Philadelphia area and centralization with the U.S. WNT in Charlotte, NC.
COURTNEY RYAN - 2x Paralympic Medalist Wheelchair Basketball & Daytime Emmy Award winner
Courtney is a graduate of the University of Arizona and is a former student at Metropolitan State University Denver where she was an All American D2 Soccer player prior to suffering paralysis in a game.
A member of the U.S. Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team since 2017 after during her rehab she picked up the sport and played collegiately at the University of Arizona where she later served as an Assistant Coach and today serves as an athletic administrator while continuing to train to play with Team USA.
In the run up to PARiS 2024, Courtney and her teammates were the subject of a documentary ‘ Ballin Out’ based upon their life & being a member of the LGBTQ community playing a World Championship in a nation that being gay was against their national laws. The project won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2025 for Outstanding Short Form Program.
Following PARiS 2024, in the summer of 2025, NBC Universal’s Peacock network released a streaming series featuring 4 U.S. Paralympians called “ADAPTIVE” in which Courtney was a featured participant in on the Road to Paris on the way to her Paralympic Silver medal.
MAKENNA WEBSTER - Field Hockey Hopeful
Makenna is a 2-sport NCAA athlete (field & ice hockey) and a graduate of The Ohio State University. In her ice hockey career, she was a 2-time NCAA Champion in Ice Hockey at The Ohio State University and at the University of Wisconsin. Additionally, she earned Most Outstanding Player honors at Wisconsin in the NCAA Frozen Four.
After winning a National Championship at Wisconsin, she transferred to OSU so that she could become a dual sport athlete, Field Hockey was not offered at Wisconsin.
During her time playing field hockey & ice hockey at Ohio State, Makenna led the field hockey team in scoring every year in Columbus.
She was named the Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year her senior season and was the school winner of the B1G Ten Conference Jackie Robinson Award (for public service). Additional Field Hockey honors include first and second team All America, 3x All-B1G Ten First Team & 3x All B1G Ten Academic Team.
Makenna was drafted in the Professional Women’s Hockey League in the 3rd round by the New York Sirens in the 2025 PWHL Entry Draft but opted to defer her PWHL dream to try and make the 2028 Summer Olympics. She resides today in Charlotte, NC where the U.S. WNT trains.
LA OLYMPIC PARALYMPIC GAMES NOTES
The Olympic Games are coming back to Los Angeles for the third time (1932, 1984, 2028), but the Paralympic Games will be making its Summer Games debut in the United States at Los Angeles 2028.
36 Sports in the Olympic program include:
3x3 Basketball, Archery, Artistic Gymnastics, Artistic Swimming, Athletics, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Beach Volleyball, BMX Freestyle, BMX Racing, Boxing, Canoe Slalom (OKC), Canoe Sprint (OKC), Cricket, Cycling Road, Cycling Track, Diving, Equestrian, Fencing, Flag Football, Football (soccer), Golf, Handball, Field Hockey, Judo, Lacrosse, Modern Pentathlon, Mountain Bike, Open Water Swimming, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Rowing, Rowing Coastal Beach Sprints, Rugby 7s, Sailing, Shooting, Skateboarding, Softball (OKC), Sport Climbing, Squash, Surfing, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Trampoline Gymnastics, Triathlon, Volleyball, Water Polo, Weightlifting & Wrestling.
23 Sports in the Paralympic program include:
Blind Football (soccer), Boccia, Goalball, Para Archery, Para Athletics, Para Badminton, Para Canoe, Para Climbing, Para Cycling Road, Para Cycling Track, Para Equestrian, Para Judo, Para Powerlifting, Para Rowing, Para Swimming, Para Table Tennis, Para Taekwondo, Para Triathlon, Shooting Para Sport, Sitting Volleyball, Wheelchair Basketball, Wheelchair Fencing, Wheelchair Rugby & Wheelchair Tennis.