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Big Ten Indoor Championships
Ohio State Third at Big Ten Championships
2/27/2021 7:16:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
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.
Individually, no one outperformed Ohio State senior Tyler Johnson, a sport industry major from Dayton, who was spectacular in winning the 200 meters, the 400 meters and running a leg on the victorious 4×400-meter relay team.
Johnson opened the day by running the fastest time in the nation to win the 400 meters in a Big Ten championship meet record time of 45.07! About an hour later he followed that up with a personal best at 200 meters, winning in 20.86. And then he ran the second leg of the 4×400-meter relay, which also featured Donnie James, Tyrese Fajardo and Frank Hayes. The team won in 3:08.45. All four were named first-team All-Big Ten Conference. Clarence Foote-Joyner, who was second in both the long jump and triple jump, earned second-team honors.
Ohio State had plenty of outstanding performers and ultimately scorers on Saturday.
- Nick Miller (1:50.93), Cameron Cooper (1:51.12) and Frank Hayes (1:51.41) finished 3-4-5 in an incredible 800 that featured bodies tumbling as all eight runners converged at the finish line. Hayes later scored in the 600.
- Junior Donnie James finished eighth in the 400 with a time of 48.53.
- Senior Kainnan Ramsey was a finalist in the 60 and ran a personal best time of 6.77 to finish sixth.
- Senior Eric Harrison joined Johnson in the 200 and scored points for the Buckeyes, finishing eighth in 21.22.
- A couple of field performers had third-place podium finishes: Sophomore Shaun Miller Jr. went 2.11m / 6-11 in the high jump and senior Robby Oswald pole vaulted 5.25m / 17-2 3/4. Both men scored six team points for the Buckeyes.
- Sophomore Luke Bendick was seventh in the pole vault, clearing 4.95m / 16-2 ¾.
Ohio State's women's team also gave great effort despite not getting any points from the best sprinter in the Big Ten, Anavia Battle, who was ultimately held out of both the 60 and the 200.
Another Big Ten champion, Adelaide Aquilla, defended her shot put title by throwing the shot 17.7m / 58-1 to just narrowly miss her PR (17.82), and Divine Oladipo placed fifth with a personal best shove of 16.2m / 53-1 3/4. Additionally:
- Freshman Marcia Sey secured a podium finish, running the 60 hurdles in a personal best time of 8.27 to take third.
- Senior Aziza Ayoub scored team points for the Buckeyes in the 800 for the fourth consecutive year, 20 minutes later in the 600 and then to cap the meet as part of the 4×400 relay team.
- Yanique Dayle took fifth in the 60 with a time of 7.45.
- Freshman Amaya Ugarte has scored in her first Big Ten championship competition, finishing eighth in the high jump with a best today of 1.72m / 5-7 3/4.
- There were a couple of personal bests in the pole vault today for a pair of Buckeyes: freshman Abbey Kuhn went 3.75m / 12-3 ½ and sophomore AnneMarie Moses cleared 3.60 / 11-9 3/4.
- And a sixth-place finish in the 4×400 relay capped the 2021 championships for the Buckeyes. Chanler Robinson, Bryannia Murphy, Aziza Ayoub – in her fifth race of these championships – and Yanique Dayle comprised the team.
2021 Big Ten Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships
Feb. 25-27; SPIRE Institute; Geneva, Ohio
Men's Final Team Standings
- Iowa – 119
- Indiana – 92
- Ohio State 83
- Nebraska – 71
- Minnesota – 70
- Purdue – 61
- Michigan – 52
- Wisconsin – 44
- Illinois – 30
- Penn State – 30
- Rutgers – 28
- Michigan State – 21
Women's Final Team Standings
- Minnesota – 138
- Michigan – 80
- Iowa – 75
- Wisconsin – 62
- Michigan State – 54
- Indiana – 50
- Nebraska – 50
- Ohio State – 42
- Penn State – 41
- Purdue – 34
- Illinois – 32
- Rutgers – 27
- Maryland – 14
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