Ohio State will have 14 former players and administrators inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame in the class of 2024 at the ceremony at the Covelli Center on Oct. 4.
Those 14 are Christy Blough (men’s volleyball), Chase Buchanan (men’s tennis), Tiffany Cameron (women’s soccer), Michael Hartfield (men’s track and field), Jeff Logan (football), Marisa Main (women’s volleyball), Brian Mannino (baseball), Braxton Miller (football), Kathy Monard (women’s track and field and cross country), Greg Oden (men’s basketball), Tony Russo (men’s lacrosse), Kyle Snyder (wrestling), Matt Wilhelm (football) and Gene Smith (athletic director).
Miller had already announced on Twitter that he would be inducted into the Ohio State Hall of Fame, and he is the headliner of the three football players who are making it in, but now the Buckeyes have revealed the other 13 inductees.
Smith, who has served 19 years as the athletics director at the university, is retiring at the end of June and will be succeeded by Ross Bjork. While Smith was the athletic director, Ohio State’s sports combined for 35 team national titles and 117 Big Ten championships along with 127 individual national titles.
Oden boasts one of the greatest men’s basketball seasons in Ohio State history with 15.7 points and 9.6 rebounds per game while leading the Buckeyes to a 35-4 record, a regular season and tournament Big Ten title, and the top overall seed in the NCAA tournament, making it to the national championship game and losing to Florida. He was voted the national defensive player of the year and was a second-team All-American before being drafted as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers.
The Hall of Fame class will also be recognized at the Ohio State football game against Iowa on Oct. 5.
