A record total of 26 current, future, or former Ohio State athletes will compete in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics set to begin in July.
Thirteen athletes are former Buckeyes, nine are current and four are incoming freshmen, including Canadian synchronized swimmer Emily Armstrong, United States synchronized swimmer Ruby Remati and Read More
Ohio State governor Mike DeWine – flanked by Ltd. Governor Jon Husted, state Sen. Niraj Antani (R-Miamisburg), former Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and Ohio State president Kristina Johnson – officially signed an executive order allowing for student-athletes in the state of Ohio to Read More
Two more faces familiar to the Ohio State men’s swimming team – one current and one graduated – will be joining Hunter Armstrong at the Tokyo Olympics this summer. A school release confirmed that graduated freestyle swimmer Matthew Abeysinghe and rising junior Ruslan Gaziev have qualified for the Olympic swim Read More
Ohio State women’s track and field sprinter Anavia Battle finished in third place in the 200-meter Olympic Trials, which was enough to become the third Buckeye to qualify for the United States Olympic team.
Battle ran the 200-meter in 21.95 seconds, just behind Gabby Thomas and Jenna Prandini, who finished Read More
Ohio State women’s track and field star Adelaide Aquilla just keeps getting better. After she started off her year with a pair of indoor shot put titles – first in the Big Ten and then at the NCAA championships – and continued it with the full sweep of the same Read More
Former Ohio State men’s gymnast Alec Yoder is set to compete for a spot on the U.S. team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which now take place later this year.
Yoder is trying out at St. Louis, Mo. this week on June 24 and June 26. He is attempting to Read More
Former Ohio State sprinter Christina Clemons qualified for her first Olympics Sunday after finishing third in the 100-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. She will represent Team USA in the Tokyo Games next month.
Clemons finished the event in 12.53 seconds, trailing Keni Harrison (12.47 seconds) Read More
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the NCAA can’t enforce rules limiting education-related benefits for student-athletes Monday, a decision that provides an incremental increase in how student-athletes are compensated.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the court’s opinion, which upheld an earlier decision from a United States district court judge that ruled Read More
Ohio State football’s Justin Fields and track and field’s Adelaide Aquilla were named the university’s male and female athletes of the year. They will both be placed on the Big Ten Athlete of the Year ballot, which will be selected on July 13.
Fields, who won Big Ten Offensive Read More
Ohio State sophomore swimmer Hunter Armstrong finished second in the 100 backstroke at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials on Tuesday night, likely securing his spot on the United States Olympic team that will compete in the pool this summer in Tokyo for the 2021 Olympics. The full team will be Read More
