Ike Diogu, Lionel Hollins, James Harden, Eddie House, Fat Lever, Alton Lister and Byron Scott. Joey Daccord was the first ASU alumnus to play in the National Hockey League, while ASU has produced professional women's soccer players including Liz Bogus, Alexia Delgado and Jemma Purfield.
ASU alumni golfers include major tournament winners Phil Mickelson and Jon Rahm. Wrestlers and mixed martial arts fighters include Zeke Jones, Anthony Robles and Cain Velasquez. More than 200 Sun Devil student-athletes have competed in the Olympic Games as of 2024, winning a total of 66 medals; notable Olympians from ASU include Melissa Belote, Herman Frazier, Ron Freeman, Jan Henne and Léon Marchand.
== Faculty ==
ASU faculty have included former CNN host Aaron Brown, Academic Claude Olney, meta-analysis developer Gene V. Glass, feminist and author Gloria Feldt, physicist Paul Davies, and Pulitzer Prize winner and The Ants coauthor Bert Hölldobler. David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency theorist, is a professor of practice. …
