COLUMBUS, Ohio – There were just two point-producing finals Friday, the first day of the three-day Big Ten Conference men’s and women’s track and field championships being held in Champaign, Ill., but Ohio State scored enough points to be third in the women’s competition and eighth in the men’s. The championships are being held at the University of Illinois at its new Demirjian Park/Gary R. Wieneke Track.
Sade stars!
The headline-grabbing result of the day was by Sade Olatoye, the master’s degree candidate pursuing bioethics, who won her second Big Ten outdoor title and her seventh Big Ten crown overall by taking first in the hammer with a new Big Ten championships throw of 68.9m / 226-0.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – There were just two point-producing finals Friday, the first day of the three-day Big Ten Conference men’s and women’s track and field championships being held in Champaign, Ill., but Ohio State scored enough points to be third in the women’s competition and eighth in the men’s. The championships are being held at the University of Illinois at its new Demirjian Park/Gary R. Wieneke Track.
Sade stars!
The headline-grabbing result of the day was by Sade Olatoye, the master’s degree candidate pursuing bioethics, who won her second Big Ten outdoor title and her seventh Big Ten crown overall by taking first in the hammer with a new Big Ten championships throw of 68.9m / 226-0.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s and women’s track and field programs will travel about three hours away this week, just northeast of Cleveland to Geneva, Ohio, to compete in the 2021 Big Ten Conference indoor track and field championships. The Thursday-through-Saturday championships will be held for the eighth time at the SPIRE Institute.
The Ohio State women are the two-time defending Big Ten champions, winning by five points over runner-up Minnesota in 2020 at SPIRE and by 29 points over runner-up Indiana in 2019 at Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Ohio State men are coming off a fifth-place finish at the 2020 indoor championships and are seeking a second Big Ten indoor crown in four years, having won the title in 2018 at SPIRE.