No. 17 Buckeyes Set for NCAA Championships

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 17-ranked Ohio State ladies’s cross nation staff is heading to Stillwater, Okla., for the 2022 NCAA Championships. The Buckeyes earned an computerized spot after ending second within the Nice Lakes Regional.

The ladies’s championship, a 6K, will probably be run at 10:20 a.m. ET Saturday. The race will probably be televised by ESPNU and out there on WatchESPN and the ESPN app, with protection beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Reside outcomes will probably be out there HERE.

Ohio State and the NCAA Championships

• That is the fourth look for the Ohio State ladies on the NCAA Championships. The 2009 squad was additionally an computerized qualifier, whereas the 2014 and 2019 squads earned at-large berths.
• The 2009 staff positioned twenty ninth, the 2014 squad was twenty sixth and the 2019 Buckeyes had been twenty third.
• Two Ohio State groups – in 1975 and 1980 – competed as a squad on the AIAW Championships previous to the beginning of NCAA competitors for ladies.
• Addie Engel, a sophomore this 12 months, was a person qualifier final season, putting 66th at her first NCAA meet. She was the seventh Buckeye to qualify as a person since 2010 and the ninth all-time.
• Kathy Monard positioned ninth on the 1986 NCAA race, incomes All-America honors with the very best end at school historical past.
• Maureen Cogan, who was thirty fourth in 1983, was the primary Buckeye to earn NCAA All-America honors. She additionally earned AIAW All-America accolades in 1981 after putting twenty second. Susan Mallery was eighth on the AIAW inaugural cross nation occasion in 1975.
• Katie Borchers recorded two High 40 finishes, putting fortieth in 2013 and thirty fourth in 2014, to grow to be the Buckeyes’ first two-time All-American.

All-Massive Ten and All-Area Buckeyes

• The Buckeyes’ High 3 runners this season – Addie Engel, Daniella Santos and Andrea Kuhn – all earned First Crew All-Massive Ten and Nice Lakes All-Area accolades. The trio positioned within the High 10 within the six races they ran this 12 months.
• Engel, from Springfield, Ohio, completed because the runner-up on the regional, operating a personal-best time of 19:57.8 within the 6k, and is now a two-time all-region choice. She is the sixth Buckeye to earn all-region honors at the least twice. Engel was the 2022 Massive Ten Champion, the primary convention title in program historical past, to earn her second All-Massive Ten honor. She completed first or second in all six meets this season. During the last two seasons, she has 10 High 4 finishes and has been within the High 16 in 12 of 13 races, with the lone exception the 2021 NCAA Championships, the place she completed 66th as a person qualifier.
• Santos, a who calls Hilliard, Ohio, residence, was seventh at regionals, ending in 20:14.5, her private finest. She has been the No. 2 finisher for Ohio State in all six races she has run this season, putting among the many High 7 in every. She notched a fourth-place end at Massive Tens to earn her first All-Massive Ten accolade after ending fifty fifth a season in the past.
• A local of Pataskala, Ohio, Kuhn positioned ninth on the NCAA Nice Lakes Regional in a time of 20:16.1. It was her private finest, passing the 20:17.7 she ran at Massive Tens to complete sixth and earn all-conference laurels, after ending seventieth final 12 months. Kuhn was the third point-getter for the Buckeyes within the six races she ran and completed within the High 10 in every.
• That is the fourth time Ohio State had three all-region alternatives (2009, 2011, 2019). Ohio State has now compiled 17 all-region honors since 2011.