These South Florida athletes are heading to the 2024 Summer Olympics

Opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympics in Paris are July 26, and there are plenty of hometown athletes to keep an eye on.

The big picture: 37 Olympians from Florida will be competing in the games, many from Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

• Several more will compete in the Paralympics, which begin Aug. 26.

Here are just a few athletes and events to watch:

Aaliyah Butler: Track and field

• Butler, 20, attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School and will be competing in the women's 400-meter race for Team USA.
• She's originally from Fort Lauderdale and got her start with the Lauderhill Cheetah Track Organization, per NBC Miami .
• Her family started a GoFundMe to pay for their travel to Paris.

Benjamin Cremaschi: Soccer

• The 19-year-old Inter Miami midfielder was selected to the U.S. men's Olympic soccer team , whose roster is limited to players 23 years old and younger.
• The Argentine American grew up in Key Biscayne.
• His Inter Miami teammate, Diego Gómez, was named to Paraguay's national team.

Angelica Delgado: Judo

• The 33-year-old Florida International University alumnus is the daughter of a Cuban exile father who competed in judo for the Cuban national team.
• Delgado competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games and is Team USA's highest-ranked athlete in the world, per her Olympic bio .

Ashleigh Johnson: Water polo

• The now three-time Olympian is a Miami native born to Jamaican parents.
• She is considered "one of the best goalkeepers in the world," according to USA Water Polo .
• Johnson became the first African American woman to make a U.S. Olympic Women's Water Polo team in 2016 and supports swimming and water polo programs in Miami.

Daniella Ramirez: Artistic swimming

• The 22-year-old Miami native, who attended Florida Virtual School, is a third-generation synchronized swimmer behind her grandmother, mother and sister, per her Team USA bio .
• She wants to study architecture after her swimming career ends.

Erika Reineke: Sailing

• The Fort Lauderdale native qualified for her first-ever Olympics in her fourth attempt at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
• She will compete in the Laser Radial, a single-handed sailing event.
• "I'm 30 now, and I started pursuing this path when I was 15—it's been a long road. I've been tested every Games cycle, and to finally succeed feels amazing," she wrote on Instagram after qualifying.

Dominique Stater: Sailing

• The 23-year-old Miami native will compete in Women's iQFOiL , a speedy windsurfing event new to the Games this year. This is her first Olympics.
• As the daughter of a U.S. diplomat, Stater lived in five different countries growing up and learned to windsurf on the Rio de la Plata in Argentina.
• She attended the University of Miami and sails out of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club and US Sailing Center Miami.

Twanisha Terry: Track and field

• The 25-year-old Miami sprinter will run in her first Olympics in the 100m for Team USA alongside her training mates Sha'Carri Richardson and Melissa Jefferson .
• Terry, whose nickname is TeeTee, is a two-time gold medalist in the World Athletics Championships.
• She attended Miami Northwestern Senior High School.

Bam Adebayo: Basketball

• He's not a Miami native, but the Miami Heat superstar will still be representing the 305 for the USA men's basketball team .
• Captain "Bamerica" won a gold medal in the 2020 games.