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Hoosiers to watch at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday, Aug. 6

Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame will be well-represented among Hoosier athletes on Friday.

TOKYO, Japan β€” More than 600 athletes are representing the United States at the Tokyo Olympics and a number of them are from Indiana.

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Here are the Hoosier athletes to watch on Friday, Aug. 6 (Note: All dates and times listed are in eastern time):

Annie Drews β€” Volleyball

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United States' Andrea Drews during the women's volleyball semifinal match between Serbia and United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.

Elkhart native and Purdue University graduate Annie Drews joins the U.S. women's volleyball team for her first Olympics.

Team USA beat Serbia 3-0 in the semifinals Friday and now advances to the gold medal match against Brazil. Drews led Team USA with 17 points in Friday morning's victory.

The gold medal match is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 8 at 12:30 a.m. ET and will air live on WTHR Channel 13.

The U.S. beat the Dominican Republic in the quarterfinals and finished first in Pool B of the preliminary round with a 4-1 record after beating Argentina, China, Turkey, and Italy but losing to ROC.

Skylar Diggins-Smith and Jewell Loyd β€” Basketball

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United States' Jewell Loyd (4) drives up court during women's basketball semifinal game against Serbia at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Saitama, Japan.

Team USA is seeking its seventh consecutive gold medal in women's basketball.

South Bend native and University of Notre Dame graduate Skylar Diggins-Smith and University of Notre Dame graduate Jewell Loyd are part of the 12-person roster.

Team USA beat Serbia 79-59 in the semifinals Friday and now advances to the gold medal game against Japan, whom the U.S. defeated in the preliminary round. Loyd had 4 points in Friday morning's win, while Diggins-Smith did not score.

The gold medal game is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 7 at 10:30 p.m. ET and will air live on WTHR Channel 13.

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United States' Skylar Diggins (5) drives to the basket ahead of Serbia's Yvonne Anderson (12) during women's basketball semifinal game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Saitama, Japan.

The U.S. defeated Australia in the quarterfinals and went undefeated in Group B of the preliminary round, with wins against France, Japan and Nigeria.

Brandon Loschiavo β€” Diving

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Brandon Loschiavo of Team United States competes in men's diving 10m platform preliminary at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.

Purdue University student Brandon Loschiavo is competing in his first Olympics in the men's 10-meter platform diving event.

Loschiavo advanced to the finals after finishing 10th in the semifinals with a score of 409.75.

The top 12 divers qualified for the finals, which is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 7 at 2 a.m. ET.

The finals will air live on USA Network and re-air in primetime beginning at 8 p.m. on WTHR Channel 13.

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Loschiavo finished 11th in the preliminary round Friday morning with a score of 403.85.

Loschiavo is a five-time national champion, with four wins in synchronized 10-meter diving and one title for individual 10-meter diving.

Sarah Hildebrandt β€” Wrestling

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Sarah Hildebrandt of the U.S. celebrates with an American flag after defeating Venezuela's Betzabeth Arguello to win gold in their women's 53kg freestyle wrestling final bout at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Granger native Sarah Hildebrandt is competing in her first Olympics in freestyle wrestling in the 50-kilogram weight class as Team USA's lone representative in the 16-person event.

In the semifinal, Hildebrandt built and early 7-1 and was still ahead of the more experienced Yanan 7-6 with only seconds left on the clock. That's when Yanan turned the tables by quickly throwing Hildebrandt to the mat, ending the Hoosier's hopes of a gold medal.

Hildebrandt will go for bronze Saturday morning, shortly after 7:55 a.m. ET, against the repechage winner between Yusneylis Guzman Lopez, of Cuba, and Oksana Livach, of Ukraine. There are two bronze medal winners in wrestling events. 

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United States' Saran Ann Hildebrandt, top, competes against China's Sun Yanan during their women's freestyle 50kg wrestling semifinal match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Chiba, Japan.

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Hildebrandt defeated Evin Demirhan of Turkey in the first round Thursday night, then defeated Miglena Georgieva Selishka of Bulgaria in the quarterfinals, setting up a semifinals match against Sun Yanan of China.

Women's freestyle wrestling matches in the 50-kilogram weight class air live on the Olympic Channel.

Hildebrandt has been on the U.S. world team three times and earned a number of medals for her dominant performances.

Molly Seidel β€” Track and Field

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Molly Seidel, of the United States, celebrates as she crosses the finish line to win the bronze medal in the women's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Sapporo, Japan.

University of Notre Dame graduate Molly Seidel has won a bronze medal in her first Olympics in the women's marathon event.

Seidel led the pack through much of the middle stages of the race, before a pair of Kenyan runners opened a gap. Seidel held steady and finished third in 2:27:46 in what was just her third marathon ever.

She is just the third American woman to medal in the Olympics marathon.

The 2016 college graduate raced against 87 other women in the event. The start of the race was moved up an hour due to extreme heat.

Seidel is ranked No. 199 in the world, and her personal best time is 2:25:13. 

Seidel finished second in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials with a time of 2:27:31.

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