With members of the Ohio State football team set to return to Columbus Monday for voluntary workouts at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the university sent out a press release explaining the timeline and guidelines that are going into place involving avoiding the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Luke Pletcher of the Ohio State wrestling team and Bia Franklin of the women’s volleyball team both won the Big Ten Outstanding Sportsmanship Award.
Courtesy of Ohio State athletics.
Members of every team at each Big Ten school were selected by their institutions as Sportsmanship Award honorees, with two Outstanding Read More
Dillon Dingler – a junior on the Ohio State baseball team – earned Third Team All-American honors by Collegiate Baseball.
The hard-hitting catcher Dingler became All-American No. 54 in program history following Dominic Canzone and Andrew Magno, who achieved All-American status in 2019.
The North Canton, Ohio, native tied with Read More
Shiori Fukuda – a fourth-year junior on the Ohio State women’s tennis team, was named the Big Ten Athlete of the Year
Fukuda became the third Buckeye to win Big Ten Player of the Year honors, joining two-time recipients Kristy Dascoli (2000, ‘01) and Francesca Di Lorenzo (2016, ‘17). Read More
Dozens of Ohio State coaches, athletes and recruits are speaking out on social media in response to the killing of Minnesota man George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, which has sparked nationwide protest.
Among the Buckeyes taking a stance against the brutality that led to Floyd’s Read More
Jincy Dunne, a first-team All-American defender for the women’s hockey team, and Chase Young, a consensus All-American and Heisman Trophy finalist for the football team have been named Ohio State’s male and female athletes of the year for 2020.
‼️ Your 2019-20 Ohio State Athletes of the Year:
🏒 Jincy Dunne – @OhioStateWHKY 3x All-American
🏈 Chase Young – @OhioStateFB consensus national defensive POtY➕ https://t.co/adl1dBqa8a#GoBucks pic.twitter.com/8kNSZjPCJR
— Ohio State Buckeyes (@OhioStAthletics) May 29, 2020
The standout Buckeyes earned a spot on the ballots for Read More
The NCAA Division-I Council Coordination Committee announced in a statement Wednesday that it would be extending the ongoing recruiting dead period for all sports through July 31.
“The extension maintains consistent recruiting rules for all sports and allows coaches to focus on the student-athletes who may be returning to campus,” Read More
Justin Sochor – the Ohio State men’s diving coach – earned the 2020 Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year award.
Sochor helped guide the Buckeyes to a second-place finish at the Big Ten Championships, marking the program’s best finish since 2015.
The accomplishment marks Sochor’s first outright Big Ten Read More
Bill Dorenkott – the Ohio State Director of Swimming and Diving – was named the Big Ten Women’s Swimming Coach of the Year.
Bill Dorenkott – courtesy of Ohio State athletics.
Dorenkott garnered coach of the year honors after the Buckeyes captured the Big Ten Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship Read More
Cannon Kingsley has made quite an impression in his first season on the Ohio State tennis team, earning Rookie of the Year honors from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
Kingsley is the first player in program history to receive the honor, and also became just the fourth freshman in Ohio State Read More
