Ohio State Buckeyes
Ohio State Buckeyes | |
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Buckeyes | |
Fight song | Buckeye Battle Cry |
Colors | Scarlet and gray[1] |
Website | ohiostatebuckeyes |
The Ohio State Buckeyes are the
Ohio State is one of only seven universities to have won an NCAA national championship in
A few of the many outstanding sports figures who were student athletes at Ohio State include
Sports sponsored
Men's sports | Women's sports |
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Baseball | Basketball |
Basketball | Cross country |
Cross country | Fencing |
Fencing | Field hockey |
Football | Golf |
Golf | Gymnastics |
Gymnastics | Ice hockey |
Ice hockey | Lacrosse |
Lacrosse | Rowing |
Soccer | Soccer |
Swimming and diving | Softball |
Tennis | Swimming and diving |
Track and field† | Synchronized swimming |
Volleyball | Tennis |
Wrestling | Track and field† |
Volleyball | |
Co-ed sports | |
Pistol — Rifle | |
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor |
Baseball
Ohio State has played baseball since 1881,[10] winning a national championship in 1966 along with 16 Big Ten regular-season titles and eight Big Ten tournament titles. The Buckeyes baseball team was the first Ohio State sports team. The team is currently coached by Greg Beals and play their home games at Bill Davis Stadium, which opened in 1997. Going into the 2008 season the Buckeyes all-time record is 2228-1427-38. Notable alumni include Frank Howard, Nick Swisher and two time All-American Steve Arlin.
Men's basketball
The Ohio State men's basketball team has played in 10 NCAA
In 2004, Ohio State fired men's basketball coach
Women's basketball
Currently coached by
Fencing
Ohio State won its first title in 1942, when the NCAA had only men's fencing.[14] Ohio State won the NCAA championships in fencing in both men's and women's fencing, combined, in 2004, 2008 and 2012.[15] Israeli Boaz Ellis won the NCAA title in men's foil in 2004, 2005 and 2006 for Ohio State, the first NCAA foil fencer to win three individual NCAA titles since 1963.[16]
Football
- 8× National Champions: 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002, 2014
- 39× Big Ten Champions: 1916, 1917, 1920, 1935, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1968–1970, 1972–1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005–2009, 2010 (vacated), 2014, 2017–2020
- 2× Leaders Division champions: 2012, 2013
- 7× East Division champions: 2014–2020
- 2× OAC Champions: 1906, 1912
- 39× Big Ten Champions: 1916, 1917, 1920, 1935, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1968–1970, 1972–1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005–2009, 2010 (vacated), 2014, 2017–2020
Golf
Ohio State's two golf courses, the Scarlet and the Gray, were completed in 1938.
Men's gymnastics
Some of the more notable Buckeye alumni include Don Perry, the first OSU All-American in the sport (Trampoline - 1954 - 4th place), brothers Seth and Noah Riskin - co-national champions (Parallel Bars - 1985 - 1st place), and Mike Racanelli - Ohio State's first Nissen winner in 1990. Racanelli also went on to win Gymnastic's first Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year Award that same year, given out annually to the athlete who displays the best performance in his sport (regardless of grade).
Following later in Racanelli's footsteps were other Nissen winners Kip Simons (1994), Blaine Wilson (1997) and Jamie Natalie (2001). Blaine Wilson (1995, 1996, 1997) and Jamie Natalie (2000, 2001) also went on to win Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year. Raj Bhavsar was the only other Men's Gymnast to win Ohio State Athlete of the Year which he accomplished in 2002.
On the Olympic and World Championship stage, OSU Men's Gymnastics is well represented, by gymnasts and coaches. The Olympian list includes: Miles Avery (asst coach 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008), Peter Kormann (Athlete in 1976, Head Coach 1996, 2000), Raj Bhavsar (2004, 2008), Jamie Natalie (2000), Gil Pinto (1988), Kip Simons (1994), Blaine Wilson (1996, 2000, 2004) and Alec Yoder (2020).
Two gymnasts who trained at the Ohio State facilities under coach Miles Avery, but were not NCAA Athletes due to eligibility rules, were Paul and Morgan Hamm - twin brothers from Wisconsin. Paul later went on to win the first ever Olympic gold medal in the Men's Gymnastics All-Around competition for the United States.
In 2011, Senior co-captain, Brandon Wynn, won his second national championship on rings. Brandon Wynn, Ty Echard, Kris Done and Jeff Treleaven earned All-America honors. In all, the seven All-America honors tie the second-best single-season performance in program history and are the most laurels since the 2005 campaign.
Ice hockey
The Ohio State men's ice hockey team was established in 1961 and played at the
The Buckeyes won one conference championship in 1972, the first year of the CCHA, and won the conference tournament in 1974 and 2004. The Buckeyes have made it to the
The Ohio State women's ice hockey team was started in 1999 and competes in the
Lacrosse
Volleyball
Rifle
In June, 2013, Ohio State became a charter member of the Patriot Rifle Conference. It was also announced that the Buckeyes will host the inaugural PRC championship meet on February 8 & 9, 2014. The rifle team has made four team and multiple individual appearances at the NCAA Rifle Championship, with their highest finish being third place in 1991.[19]
Softball
The Buckeye softball team has appeared in one
Synchronized swimming
In the team event, Ohio State has won 32 collegiate championships between 1977, the first year of the collegiate national championships, and 2019. Head coach Mary Jo Ruggieri led the team to 17 wins between 1977 and 1995, and Linda Lichter-Witter added at least seven more since 1996. Ohio State also has taken at least 61 individual honors in that span, including 11 by Karen and Sarah Josephson. Head Coach Holly Vargo-Brown led the team to their 32nd total championship in 2019, the most of any Ohio State varsity sport.[22]
Tennis
The Men's and Women's Varsity Tennis teams have showed success both individually and as a team. Both the men's and women's teams share the outdoor tennis facility, the Stickney Tennis Center, dedicated in 1993. When the weather takes them indoors, both teams play at the Varsity Tennis Center, which was recently completed in November 2007. The outdoor facility has 12 courts and the indoor has six courts and are both located in Columbus, Ohio.
Men's Tennis -
Women's Tennis - Big Ten Championships - 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 - Note: The Big Ten officially began sponsoring championships for women with the 1981–82 season. Since then, Ohio State has yet to win a Big Ten Championship. Ohio State recently won their first Big Ten Championship in school history in 2016, after defeating Michigan in the finals. NCAA Women's Tennis Tournament Team Appearances - 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009. The Women have five NCAA Singles Appearances, four NCAA Doubles Appearances and two All-Americans.[23]
Wrestling
Ohio State wrestling was established at the university in 1921. Formerly the coach of
In 2015, Ohio State won its first national championship, after coming close in 2008 and 2009. It broke Penn State's streak of four consecutive team titles, but extended the Big Ten's national championship run to nine with the help of 4-time NCAA champion Logan Stieber.
2015 Ohio State wrestler Kyle Snyder becomes youngest World Champion in United States Wrestling History. On Friday September 11 Kyle won five matches including a dramatic ending in the gold medal round at 97 kg/213 lbs. Trailing 4–3 with less than a minute remaining, Snyder got a takedown against returning World champion Abdusalam Gadisov of Russia and ultimately prevailed by criteria with the score tied at 5-5. "It is amazing hearing the USA chants, especially on a day like today – September 11," said Snyder. "It's important to come out here and represent your country to the best of your ability."
Ohio State University Buckeye Wrestling Team Accomplishments include:
- Most Wins - 20 (1990, 1992, and 2002)
- 1st-place finishes in the Big Ten Conference 1923, 1951, 2015 (shared with Iowa), 2017, 2018
NCAA Championships: 2015
- Consecutive Wins - 15 (2001 and 2002)
- Most Big Ten Wins - 7 (7–1 in 2009–10 and 2008–09); (7–0 in 1991–92) and (7–2 in 1980–81)
- Most All-Americans in a Season - 8 (2018) Nathan Tomasello, Luke Pletcher, Joey Mckenna, Micah Jordan, Bo Jordan, Myles Martin, Kollin Moore, Kyle Snyder
- Most Freshman All-Americans in a Season - 3 (2012) Hunter Stieber, Logan Stieber and Cam Tessari
Olympians and track
Ohio State has produced over two hundred Olympic athletes, most notably Jesse Owens who won four Olympic gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and is one of the greatest Olympians in history. In all, 48 Ohio State athletes have combined for a total of 77 Olympic medals which includes 33 gold, 28 silver and 16 bronze medals. Ohio State's track team is coached by Karen Dennis, and hosts home meets at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The Buckeyes' track team is also famous for being the first Buckeye team in any sport to win a national title.
Mal Whitfield was the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 800 Meters.
Club sports
Typically, most sports offered at universities and offered in youth leagues are also available as a collegiate club sport. However, the variety of sports offered is often related to the size of the school. Collegiate club sports offer college athletes the ability to play at a
Basketball
Collegiate Club Basketball is associated with the
In 2016, Ohio State defeated
The 2020 Club Basketball season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ohio State was named league champion for the season, despite a majority of games not being played. No national champion was crowned.
Football
The Ohio State Club Football team, founded in 2009, gives Ohio State students without athletic scholarships the opportunity to play full-contact, 11-on-11 football with largely NCAA rules. Although not affiliated with the NCAA program, multiple former players such as Chris Booker,[26] De'Shawn White,[27] Eli Goins and others have gone on to walk-on to the NCAA team. The Ohio State Club Football program joined the National Club Football Association in 2012 and has won the last two NCFA National Championships in 2019 and 2021 (no games played in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The Buckeyes are one of just two programs to repeat as national champions (Coppin State 2012, 2013) and the third program to boast two national titles (Coppin State, Oakland University).
In addition to their back-to-back national championships, the Buckeyes have won four conference titles (2019, 2021–2023) and two division titles (2018, 2019) all under current Head Coach, James Grega Jr. Ohio State has also had 55 players named to NCFA All-American teams since its inception, including quarterback Kellyn Gerenstein, who won the league's Offensive MVP award in 2019 and the NCFA national championship game MVP Award in 2021.[28]
Rugby
Founded in 1966, Ohio State's Rugby Football Club plays
More recently, Ohio State has appeared in the Collegiate Rugby Championship, a tournament broadcast live on NBC, finishing 7th in 2010 and 14th in 2011. The Buckeyes were led in those two tournaments by Nate Ebner, who was named to the competition's All Tournament Team in 2010 and 2011,[30][31] before entering the 2012 NFL draft and signing with the New England Patriots. The Buckeyes finished the 2010–11 season ranked 23rd in the country.[32] Ohio State finished third at the 2012 Big Ten 7s, missing out on qualification to the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships.
Tennis
The Ohio State club tennis team competes in the national USTA Tennis on Campus league and won the national championship in 2018, defeating the University of North Carolina.[33]
Water Polo
Collegiate club water polo operates under the Collegiate Water Polo Association, with the United States split into 18 divisions based partly on geography and partly on conventional conferences across other collegiate sports. The Ohio State's Men's Water Polo club competes in the Big Ten division with other Big Ten teams such as Michigan St and Michigan. The Buckeyes competed in the CWPA National Collegiate Club Championship in 2013 (6th), 2014(5th), 2017(6th) and 2018(7th). The current head coaches of the men’s team are Larry and AP.
Championships
NCAA team championships
Ohio State has won 32 NCAA team titles.[34]
- Men's (24)
- Women's (5)
- Rowing(3): 2013, 2014, 2015
- Ice Hockey(2): 2022, 2024
- Co-ed (3)
- Fencing (3): 2004, 2008, 2012
- See also:
Other national team championships
Below are 59 national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA (including sports it has never sponsored):[35]
- Men's:
- Football (8): 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002, 2014
- Women's:
- Synchronized swimming (34): 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
- Pistol (8): 2000, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Co-ed:
- Pistol (8): 2000, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- See also:
Big Ten regular-season championships
Men's
- Football: 1916, 1917, 1920, 1935, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (vacated), 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Basketball: 1925, 1933, 1939, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1991, 1992, 2000 (vacated), 2002 (vacated), 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Baseball: 1917, 1924, 1943, 1951, 1955, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2016
- Golf: 1928, 1945, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1966, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004
- Hockey: (CCHA): 1972, 2004 (Big Ten): 2019
- Gymnastics: 1983, 1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017
- Indoor Track: 1942, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1993, 2018
- Outdoor Track: 1942, 1948, 1992, 1993, 2018, 2022
- Soccer: 2000, 2007, 2009, 2015
- Swimming: 1938, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 2010
- Tennis: 1915, 1943, 1991, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Volleyball (MIVA): 1969, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023
- Fencing: 1926, 1927, 1949, 1969, 1970, 1977, (MFC): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, (CCFC): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Wrestling: 1923, 1951, 2015, 2017, 2018
- Cross Country: 1923
- Lacrosse: (GWLL) 1986, 1988, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2008 (ECAC) 2014
- Rifle: (WIRC) 1948, 1950, 1952, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Women's
- Basketball: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2017 (vacated), 2018 (vacated), 2022, 2024
- Field Hockey: 2001, 2006, 2010
- Golf: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019
- Gymnastics: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
- Rowing: 2002, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
- Soccer: 2010, 2017
- Softball: 1990, 2007
- Tennis: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022
- Indoor Track: 2011, 2015, 2019, 2020
- Outdoor Track: 2011, 2012, 2019, 2021, 2022
- Swimming: 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Volleyball: 1989, 1991, 1994
- Ice Hockey: (WCHA) 2023, 2024
Media
On April 2, 2009, Ohio State signed a 10-year media-rights agreement with IMG College (now a part of
The Ohio State University Marching Band
The Ohio State University Marching Band (nicknamed "The Best Damn Band In The Land"[37]) is currently under direction of Dr. Christopher Hoch. This all brass band has 228 members, and was first formed in 1878. The band has traditions including a field march that forms a "Script Ohio", during which, a senior sousaphone player gets to "dot the i" in the word Ohio.
School colors
The Ohio State school colors of scarlet and gray were chosen by a committee of three students (Curtis C. Howard, Harwood R. Pool, and Alice Townshend) prior to the school's first graduation ceremony in 1878. The committee's original recommendation was to be orange and black. The committee soon discovered that Princeton already used the colors, however, and changed their recommendation.[38] For this reason some references claim that Ohio State's original school colors were orange and black. This claim is not quite accurate, in that the committee never filed the original report with that recommendation.
Pageantry
- Team colors: Gray
- Outfitter: Nike J. America
- Fight songs: Across the Field, Buckeye Battle Cry
- Often played songs: Hang on Sloopy, Le Regiment
- Alma mater: Carmen Ohio
- Nicknames: Buckeyes (officially adopted in 1950[39]), The Bucks, The Silver Bullets
- Mascot: Brutus Buckeye
- Rivalries: Michigan Wolverines, Illinois Fighting Illini, Penn State Nittany Lions, Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops (former)
- Marching band: Athlon Sports, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated.
- Radio network: WBNS FM (97.1 The Fan)
- Announcers: Paul Keels (Play By Play); Jim Lachey (Color (football)), Ron Stokes (Color (basketball))
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