Buckeye Spotlight – March 28

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Week in and week out, Buckeye student-athletes increase the usual of excellence set at Ohio State, whether or not that be in competitors, within the classroom, or in the neighborhood. ‘Buckeye Highlight’ acknowledges student-athletes who had noteworthy accomplishments each in contests and past the field rating.

All through the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX, Ohio State Athletics continues to have a good time distinctive feminine student-athletes and girls’s groups all through historical past, highlighting a brand new second or individual each week. This week, a trio of girls’s basketball Large Ten Gamers of the Yr – Jessica Davenport, Jantel Lavender and Kelsey Mitchell – is highlighted. Learn extra HERE. Title IX homepage

Final week, 120 Ohio State student-athletes acquired Tutorial All-Large Ten honors. Winter sports activities embrace males’s and girls’s basketball, males’s and girls’s gymnastics, males’s hockey, males’s and girls’s swimming and diving and wrestling. To be eligible for Tutorial All-Large Ten choice, college students have to be on a varsity group (as verified by being on the official squad checklist as of March 1 for winter sports activities), have been enrolled full time on the establishment for at least 12 months and carry a cumulative grade-point common of three.0 or greater. The ladies’s swimming and diving program led the Ohio State winter sports activities with 28 honorees, adopted by the boys’s swimming and diving program with 22. Males’s hockey had 18, girls’s gymnastics had 17 and males’s gymnastics and wrestling had 12 every. Girls’s basketball had eight and males’s basketball had three. Launch and checklist of honorees

Listed below are this week’s Buckeye Highlight student-athletes and groups:

Girls’s Basketball Workforce

• The Ohio State girls’s basketball group (28-8) wrapped up the 2022-23 season by making its first Elite Eight look since 1993 and the second-consecutive Candy 16 look.
• The Buckeyes defeated No. 6/8 and second-seeded UConn by a 73-61 margin within the Candy 16, incomes OSU’s first win of the sequence and breaking UConn’s streak of 16-consecutive Elite Eight appearances. Ohio State compelled 25 turnovers and totaled 13 steals.
• Ohio State fell to No. 4/5 and top-seeded Virginia Tech by an 84-74 margin within the Elite Eight. In her ultimate collegiate sport, Taylor Mikesell set the Buckeyes’ document for many made three-pointers in an NCAA Match sport with seven.
• Cotie McMahon and Jacy Sheldon had been named to the All-Match Workforce of the regional.

Addie Engel, Andrea Kuhn, Daniella Santos | Girls’s Observe & Subject

• The Ohio State distance runners competed on the Raleigh Relays this previous weekend with Addie Engel, Andrea Kuhn and Daniella Santos all breaking program information.
• On the primary day of competitors within the 10000m, Daniella Santos (33:33.47) and Andrea Kuhn (33:34.10) every ran significantly sooner than the earlier program document (33:46.57). They completed eleventh and twelfth within the invitational group.
• Addie Engel wrapped up the Buckeyes’ record-breaking weekend by ending the 5000m in 15:44.02, greater than 12 seconds sooner than the earlier document (15:56.52). Engel was fourth in a discipline of 170 runners who completed the race.

Meggie Otte | Softball | Sr. | East Sparta, Ohio

• Fifth-year senior Meggie Otte helped the Ohio State softball group win its Large Ten-opening sequence over Michigan, amassing a success in every of the Buckeyes’ wins.
• Within the second sport of a doubleheader on Sunday, Otte was 2-for-3 with a two-run dwelling runs and three complete RBI.
• Yesterday, she went 1-for-3 and drove in a run because the Buckeyes received 8-7.
• The sequence win was Ohio State’s first over Michigan in 33 years, since 1990.
• Otte has 18 RBI on the season, which is tied for the second-most on the group.
• With Otte’s assist, the Buckeyes have received 17 of their final 20 video games and are 20-8 general on the season.

Ruby Remati | Synchronized Swimming | Sophomore | Andover, Mass.

• Ruby Remati received two nationwide titles on the 2023 U.S. Collegiate Nationwide Championships – A Figures and duet – to assist the Buckeyes win their second consecutive nationwide championship.
• She earned the Particular person Excessive Level Award on the 2023 U.S. Collegiate Nationwide Championships, scoring a meet-high 68 factors.
• She was additionally a member of the Buckeye’s Scarlet group routine that completed second and swam with the third-place Buckeye trio.

Colby Smith | Males’s Lacrosse | Senior | Lancaster, Pa.

• Colby Smith led Ohio State with a season-high 4 targets within the 11-7 win over No. 6 Rutgers Sunday evening.
• The senior helped the Buckeyes to their fourth victory over Rutgers in sequence historical past and the group’s largest margin of victory over the Scarlet Knights.
• Profitable their first convention sport in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium, the Buckeyes improved to 5-1 at dwelling this season.
• Smith, who was second on the group in scoring final season, has been battling an offseason harm and has returned to the lineup within the final 5 video games for Ohio State.

Paul Veltrup | Males’s Fencing | Sophomore | Grefrath, Germany

• In his first NCAA Championships look, Paul Veltrup completed because the nationwide runner-up in males’s epee.
• The No. 2 seed after posting 16 wins in 23 bouts in pool play, he notched a 14-10 victory over LIU’s Mohamed Elsayed Saleh within the semifinals earlier than falling to Harvard’s Jonas Hansen within the ultimate, 15-10.
• He earned First Workforce All-America accolades and was the fourth Buckeye to complete within the High 2 in males’s epee the final 4 instances Ohio State has competed on the ultimate web site.
• Veltrup helped the Buckeyes to a fifth-place end as a group.

Gustaf Westlund | Males’s Hockey | fifth Yr | Stockholm, Sweden

• A fifth-year senior and captain for the Buckeyes, Gustaf Westlund returned to the lineup within the NCAA Match Friday. He had not performed since October, lacking 5 months due to an harm suffered within the fifth sport of the season.
• He had a direct affect on the squad, as he had a three-point sport within the Buckeyes’ 8-1 victory over Harvard within the NCAA Bridgeport Regional semifinal. His first help got here on a tally lower than 4 minutes into the sport and he scored early within the second earlier than organising a objective simply six seconds later (tying for the 2 quickest targets in NCAA regional historical past).
• The Buckeyes had been making their first NCAA look since 2019 and notched the third first-round win in program historical past. The squad fell to No. 1 seed Quinnipiac 4-1 within the regional ultimate and finish the 12 months 21-16-3.

Shane Wetzel | Males’s Volleyball | Fr. | Lake Mary, Florida  

• Wetzel helped the Buckeyes to a 3-0 document final week.
• He has 10 or extra kills in every of the final 5 matches, all begins.
• The freshman recorded 10 kills in a 3-2 street win at No. 1 Penn State.
• He hit .588 in a 3-0 dwelling win over Quincy to enhance Ohio State’s document to 15-9 general and 7-3 within the MIVA

Lyle Yost | Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Shaker Heights, Ohio

• Lyle Yost claimed the 1-meter nationwide title on the NCAA Championships final week, turning into the primary Buckeye since 1988 to win the 1-meter and first since 2016 to win a nationwide title in any occasion.
• Yost was the one diver on the NCAA Championships to qualify for the championship ultimate in all three dives and earn three First Workforce All-America honors.
• For the 1-meter, Yost was the highest qualifier popping out of prelims and led the entire manner by means of finals, ending with a complete rating of 443.95. Yost positioned fifth on the 3-meter with a rating of 408.50 and tied for sixth on platform with a rating of 366.35.
• Yost was named the Diver of the Yr by the CSCAA following his efficiency.