Pyle, Roettker Are Ohio State’s Big Ten Sportsmanship Winners

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Katie Pyle of the sector hockey crew and Dexter Roettker of the boys’s gymnastics crew have been amongst 28 student-athletes conference-wide named Excellent Sportsmanship Award winners for the 2021-22 tutorial 12 months, the convention workplace introduced as we speak.

One member of every varsity sports activities crew on each campus was chosen by his or her establishment as a Sportsmanship Award honoree, and two Excellent Sportsmanship Award winners have been then chosen from every establishment. All the Sportsmanship Award winners have distinguished themselves by way of sportsmanship and moral habits. As well as, these honorees should be in good tutorial standing and will need to have demonstrated good citizenship outdoors of the sports-competition setting.

Pyle, from Lititz, Pa., performed in 66 video games all through her Ohio State profession. Over her remaining two seasons – the spring of 2021 and fall of 2021 – she scored 4 targets and added three assists for 11 factors. As a freshman in 2018, she had a career-high 11 factors (5 targets, one help).

Off the sector, Pyle graduated in Might together with her diploma in human improvement and household science. Her subsequent step is to pursue her baccalaureate certification and grasp’s diploma in early childhood training with a spotlight space of kindergarten by way of fourth grade.

An Tutorial All-Huge Ten and OSU Scholar-Athlete, Pyle interned in the course of the summer season of 2020 domestically at Femergy as a part of the Eugene D. Smith Management’s Bucks Go Professional program.

An lively member of the neighborhood whereas a Buckeye, Pyle took half within the Feed the Funnel occasion all 4 years whereas at Ohio State. It was a part of the BeKind undertaking and was organized to assist meals insecurity all through Ohio. Pyle and the remainder of the volunteers packaged over 170,000 meals for households in want.

Roettker, from Jackson, Ohio, contributed to the Buckeyes’ rotation persistently all through the previous 4 years. This season, as a crew captain and chief on and off the ground, Roettker helped Ohio State to its first regular-season Huge Ten Title and completed with All-Huge Ten Second Group honors on the championship meet as he was the runner-up on the vault.

Roettker is dedicated to bettering the Columbus neighborhood as he continues to volunteer on the Authorized Assist Society of Columbus, particularly working with the tenant advocacy undertaking (TAP) to assist folks struggle unfair evictions.

Within the classroom, Roettker was named an Ohio State Scholar Athlete all 4 years in addition to a 2021 Faculty Gymnastics Affiliation First Group Scholar All-American and multi-year Tutorial All-Huge Ten honoree. He graduated this spring with a level in finance and had a full-time place in Columbus secured earlier than commencement.