BERKELEY

As the opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics unfolds today in London, UC Berkeley has already hit a golden moment: With 45 participants, it has more student-athletes, coaches, alumni and other members of the campus community at the games than any other public school in the nation.

Natalie Coughlin and Coach Terry McKeever Swimming

Nathan Adrian Swimming

Zach Vlahos Mens Crew (coxswain)

Caitlin Leverenz Swimming

Alysia Montanyo (alum) Track

More videos of Cals 2012 Summer Olympians

And among both public and private schools nationwide, UC Berkeley is No. 2 only to the University of Southern California (USC), which has sent 46 representatives to London for the 19 days of competition, according to data compiled by Cal Athletics. UC Berkeleys number is nearly the same as it was at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, when it had 46 participants.

The 2012 total includes 38 athletes, five coaches, one chief medical officer and one event manager. The Cal contingent features athletes and coaches in 10 different sports mens basketball, mens and womens rowing, mens and womens swimming, mens and womens track and field, mens and womens water polo and womens soccer.

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45 Cal Bears at Olympics — most for a U.S. public school