Sade Olatoye Honored with M/I Homes Foundation Award
5/26/2021 11:30:23 AM | Women's Track & Field
Sade Olatoye, who has had an academic and athletics career at Ohio State that sets a standard for achievement, was today named the recipient of the M/I Homes Foundation Award, a $5,000 post-graduate scholarship to study at Ohio State University. The award honors a student-athlete with demonstrated athletic and academic success, as well as community contributions.
Olatoye, who this week is in Jacksonville, Fla., competing in three events at the NCAA East Prelims, graduated in May 2020 with a degree in health sciences. She has since enrolled in graduate school at Ohio State and is pursuing a master’s in bioethics at the Ohio State College of Medicine. Her ultimate goal is to pursue medical school … after competing for Nigeria in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Olatoye was nominated for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year and in February, 2020, she won the Big Ten’s Wayne Duke Postgraduate Scholarship, a $10,000 award toward her graduate studies. Last winter she was named a recipient of the NCAA Winter Sports Postgraduate Scholarship.
Olatoye is a three-time Big Ten Conference Distinguished Scholar for having a grade point average of at least 3.70. She is a five-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, a six-time OSU Scholar-Athlete and a three-time Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Nominee.
Olatoye is as outstanding in her athletic pursuits as she is at her academics.
- She won her seventh Big Ten title two weeks ago by taking first in the hammer throw with a new Big Ten championships record throw of 68.9m / 226-0.
- Her Big Ten titles include four shot put titles – indoors in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and outdoors in 2017, two weight throw titles (2017 and 2019) and this year’s hammer.
- She was named the 2019 Ohio State female athlete of the year.
- She is a two time Big Ten field athlete of the year (2017 and 2019 indoors) and athlete of the championships (2017 and 2019 indoors).
- She is a three-time first-team All-American in the weight throw and won the NCAA championship in 2019 in the event.
- She is a two-time first-team All-American in the shot put.
Olatoye’s efforts in the campus and central Ohio communities are significant. She has volunteered at sports camps, mentored kids interested in attending college, assisted with Habitat for Humanity and pay forward for Martin Luther King Day. She has been an active member and a leader for campus organizations such as SHEROS, Peer Educators, the African Youth League, OSU BAESS and Athletes in Medicine.
A good couple of days in Jacksonville will propel Olatoye to the NCAA Championships, in Eugene, Ore., June 9-12. She’s had a great six years studying and competing for Ohio State, so a couple more is cake.
We’ll see her again and be reading about her again.
#GoBuckeyes
