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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s and women’s track and field teams are in action this weekend in Jacksonville, Fla., at the Big Ten North Florida Invitational. The event, hosted by the University of Iowa at the University of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium, features all of the Big Ten teams. North Florida will play host to the NCAA East Preliminaries in May.
The two-day event began Friday and will conclude Saturday evening.
Friday Results
This is a tremendously competitive field and similar to a Big Ten championship. Ohio State student-athletes came in with a total of 17 men’s and women’s outdoor wins earned at the meet last week at the University of Maryland, and they are off to a fine start in Florida. Some of the highlights:
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s team wanted more than a third-place finish at the Big Ten indoor championships, but team members will return home with a feeling of pride knowing they competed and performed with outstanding effort on Saturday at the SPIRE Institute, in Geneva, Ohio.
Ohio State was in sixth-place with 17 points entering the day, but the team scored 66 points to trail only Iowa, with 119 points and Indiana, with 92. Ohio State finished with 83 points. The Ohio State women finished in eighth place with 42 total points. Iowa won the men’s championships and Minnesota won the women’s.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s team wanted more than a third-place finish at the Big Ten indoor championships, but team members will return home with a feeling of pride knowing they competed and performed with outstanding effort on Saturday at the SPIRE Institute, in Geneva, Ohio.
Ohio State was in sixth-place with 17 points entering the day, but the team scored 66 points to trail only Iowa, with 119 points and Indiana, with 92. Ohio State finished with 83 points. The Ohio State women finished in eighth place with 42 total points. Iowa won the men’s championships and Minnesota won the women’s.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – It was simply another terrific, terrific afternoon indoors at the SPIRE Institute’s Big Ten Invite for the track and field teams from Ohio State University. Eight more wins Saturday enabled the Buckeyes to secure over a third of the wins – 13 wins in 34 events – in an eight-team field that included teams from Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, Nebraska, Maryland and Iowa.
A recap of the best and the brightest from the Buckeyes:
Defending Big Ten indoor champion Adelaide Aquilla is a three-time winner for the Buckeyes so far this winter. The senior lofted the shot put 17.13m/56-2 ½ to win the competition and climb into the Top 5 nationally. The event also featured Sade Olatoye taking third (16.62m/54-6 ½) and Divine Oladipo finishing fourth with a toss of 15.81m/51-10 ½.