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
Ohio State men’s basketball student-athlete Seth Towns was detained by Columbus Police in downtown Columbus on May 29, per 11 Warriors, while participating in a protest against racial injustice and police brutality in response to the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
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Former Ohio State big man Kaleb Wesson, who had entered his name into the 2020 NBA Draft, plans to play in another league before his NBA career begins.
The Westerville, Ohio, native announced he will participate in The Basketball Tournament, which is an annual basketball tourney held every summer 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
Kevin Burch – the Ohio State men’s volleyball head coach – will serve as the head coach for the 2020 U.S. Men’s Junior National Training Team.
The program aspires to compete in the NORCECA U21 Pan American Cup currently scheduled for Aug. 31-Sept. 9 in Colorado Springs, Colo., which is Read More
Anavia Battle – a junior on the Ohio State women’s track and field team – won Big Ten Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.
Battle also earned the honor of the Big Ten’s Track Athlete of the Championships, becoming the fourth student-athlete in the past six years to sweep both Read More
Kevin Randleman, a two-time national champion for the Ohio State wrestling team, has been named to the UFC Hall of Fame Class for 2020.
After winning three Big Ten titles and two national championships, Randleman totaled 17 mixed martial arts victories as well as the UFC heavyweight title.
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Another one of the nation’s top recruits included Ohio State in his top schools list when Clarkston, Mich., four-star offensive guard Rocco Spindler named the Buckeyes along with Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State and LSU in his final five.
At 6-foot-4 1/2 and 315 pounds, Spindler is the No. 2 Read More
Division I NCAA student-athletes can officially return to their respective schools’ athletic facilities for workouts on a voluntary basis.
According to the NCAA’s Division I Council vote, schools will be permitted to reopen their athletic facilities on June 1, lifting a moratorium that had previously prohibited Division I sports teams Read More
