Buckeye Spotlight - Dec. 5
12/5/2023 4:02:00 PM | General
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Week in and week out, Buckeye student-athletes raise the standard of excellence set at Ohio State, whether that be in competition, in the classroom, or in the community. 'Buckeye Spotlight' recognizes student-athletes who had noteworthy accomplishments both in contests and beyond the box score.
Here are this week's Buckeye Spotlight student-athletes:
Carter Chase | Wrestling | R-Fr. | Marion, Ohio
Here are this week's Buckeye Spotlight student-athletes:
Carter Chase | Wrestling | R-Fr. | Marion, Ohio
- Chase won the Storm Open 165-pound bracket with a 4-0 record Sunday.
- Three of the wins were by pin, the other by major decision.
- Chase finished second at the Findlay Open earlier in November with a 5-1 record.
- Owns a 12-3 record this year with six victories by pin.
- Buckeyes return to dual competition vs. No. 18 Pittsburgh at the Covelli Center on Sunday (Noon/BTN).
- Clark had a phenomenal week at the 2023 Toyota U.S. Open in Greensboro, N.C. last week, winning a national title and turning in three Olympic Trials qualifying times.
- Clark won gold in the 800 free on the opening night of the U.S. Open on Wednesday, turning in a time of 7:50.49.
- He closed out the week winning silver in the 1500 free with a time of 15:05.57.
- Clark placed seventh in the 400 free with a time of 3:52.93.
- Harrison, Jr. was named a Heisman Trophy Finalist Monday evening, Ohio State's sixth finalist in the last six years.
- He has also been named the Big Ten Conference's Offensive Player of the Year and, for the second consecutive year, the Big Ten's Wide Receiver of the Year.
- He is also a finalist for the national wide receiver award, the Biletnikoff Award.
- He caught 67 passes for 1,211 yards and scored 15 touchdowns.
- In the process, he set school records with two 1,000-yard seasons, with eight 100-yard receiving games this season and with 15 100-yard receiving games for his career.
- Mikulášiková became the 37th player in program history to score 1,000 career points on Sunday in the Buckeyes' 78-58 road win against No. 20/22 Tennessee, reaching 1,000 on a three-pointer in the third quarter.
- Mikulášiková finished with season-highs in points (18) and rebounds (4), shooting 7-of-10 (.700) from the floor and 3-of-5 (.600) from long range and adding a pair of assists.
- This season, Mikulášiková is averaging 10.0 points and 2.1 rebounds per game. She is shooting 55.3 percent from the field, 40 percent from three and 85.7 percent from the charity stripe.
- Mobley scored two goals in the Buckeyes' 6-2 win over St. Cloud State last weekend for her first multi-goal performance as a Buckeye.
- Her two-goal game was also just the fifth of her career.
- Mobley has now recorded four goals this year for the Buckeyes.
- Okpara scored a career-high 14 points on a perfect 6-of-6 shooting, all six makes were dunks, in the win over Central Michigan on Nov. 29.
- He then grabbed seven rebounds and blocked a career-high five shots in the win over Minnesota on Sunday.
- Okpara has now blocked a shot in each of the last 15 games. Since 2000, only Ken Johnson, Greg Oden and Dallas Lauderdale have had a streak of at least 15 games.
- He is currently third in the Big Ten with 20 blocks this season.
- Yost claimed a national championship in the 1-meter dive at USA Diving Winter Nationals over the weekend.
- Yost placed second in prelims and went on to win gold in finals with an overall score of 743.65.
- With the win, Yost punched his ticket to compete for Team USA at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar in February.
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