23 FB players have now graduated in 2011-12 – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/11/2012 12:00:00 AM | Football
June 11, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ten more Ohio State football players – past performers and those from the 2011 team – received their bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University Sunday in commencement exercises at Ohio Stadium.
Ohio State’s football players were among a university-record 10,642 individuals who received degrees and certificates at the ceremony. Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, delivered the commencement address in front of approximately 50,000 guests.
Among the spring quarter graduates are two – punter Ben Buchanan and safety Zach Domicone – who will be members of the 2012 team as fifth-year seniors. Two-year starting linebacker Andrew Sweat received his degree in marketing and Jake Ballard, a starting member of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, also received his degree, in sport and leisure studies.
The 10 new graduates increase to 23 the number of Ohio State football players who have received their degree during the 2011-12 academic year.
The ceremony was the university’s 400th commencement and Ohio State’s last on the academic quarter system.
2012 Spring Quarter Graduates
Jake Ballard – sport and leisure studies
Ben Buchanan – strategic communications
Bo DeLande – sport and leisure studies
Zach Domicone – marketing
Garrett Dornbrook – mechanical engineering
Nate Ebner – human nutrition
James Georgiades – biology
Chris Maxwell – mechanical engineering
Spencer Smith – marketing
Andrew Sweat – marketing
Winter 2012 Graduates
Dan Bain – English
Derek Erwin – Civil Engineering
Nate Oliver – Sport and Leisure Studies
DeVier Posey – Communications
Solomon Thomas – Sociology
*Jason Winrow – Economics
Fall 2011 Graduates
Mike Brewster – Communications
Nic DiLillo – Communications
Donnie Evege – Communications
Dan Herron – African-American and African Studies
Tony Jackson – Marketing
Chris Roark – Marketing
*Alex Stepanovich – Communications
*Graduates of the Degree Completion Program
