Title IX: Shields Excels Individually During Ohio State Title Run

COLUMBUS, Ohio –As a program, the Ohio State Rowing workforce has loved unimaginable success because it started competing in the course of the 1995-96 season. Alongside the way in which there have been many particular person Buckeyes who’ve helped this system prosper and excel. Catherine Shields would be the most adorned athlete in Ohio State’s historical past on the water.

Shields was a part of all three Ohio State Nationwide Championships from 2013-15, a feat no different workforce has managed to match because the first NCAA Championship in 1997.

The Buckeyes racked up their fourth-consecutive Huge Ten title in 2016, setting a convention report for many titles in a row. Titles from the 1V8, 2V8, 1V4 and 3V4 boats propelled the Buckeyes to a convincing victory that yr on the convention championships with Shields being named the Huge Ten and Ohio State Athlete of the 12 months for the 2015-16 calendar yr.

Throughout Ohio State’s run of workforce success throughout her time as a Buckeye, Shields put collectively a powerful resume of particular person honors, awards and recognitions each as an athlete and scholar.

A four-year letterwinner (2013-16), Shields was named an Ohio State Scholar Athlete 4 occasions, an Educational All-Huge Ten choice (twice) and a member of the Collegiate Coaches Rowing Affiliation Nationwide Scholar Athlete checklist as a senior in 2016.

The Huge Ten named Shields its Freshman of the 12 months in 2013 and the Huge Ten Rowing Athlete of the 12 months, twice (2014, 2016). She is the one Buckeye to earn that honor on a number of events.

Moreover, Shields was named First Workforce All-Huge Ten thrice (2014-16) to develop into simply the second Ohio State rower to be so acknowledged (Conny Kirsch, 2000-02).

The convention honors additionally mirrored her three CRCA First Workforce Pocock All-America workforce accomplishments (2014-16).

At Ohio State, the workforce and particular person awards helped Shields earn the Ohio State Feminine Athlete of the 12 months honor in each 2014 and 2016. She is the one rower to earn the award twice.

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