Sunday, February 9
Columbus, Ohio
Noon
Ohio State
vs
Denver
Buckeyes Open Campaign Sunday at Home vs. No. 15 Denver
2/7/2025 3:36:00 PM | Women's Lacrosse
The teams will face off for the fourth consecutive season
The Basics
- The Ohio State women's lacrosse team kicks off the 2025 season Sunday when it takes on No. 15 Denver.
- The teams will meet at noon in Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.Â
- Admission and parking are free Sunday and to all women's lacrosse regular season home games.
- Sunday is the Buckeyes' Cancer Awareness game. There will be a rally towel giveaway for the first 250 fans as well as a postgame meet and greet with the Buckeyes.Â
- The game will be streamed on B1G+ and live statistics can be linked from OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
- Ohio State is 3-3 all-time against Denver.Â
- The squads met each of the last three years, with the Pioneers capturing the three contests.
- The last matchup was Feb. 23, 2024 in Denver, when the then-No. 10-ranked Pioneers posted a 15-5 win.
- Denver entered the season ranked 15th in the IL Women Media Poll.Â
- The Pioneers opened their 2025 campaign Friday with a 10-8 loss at Louisville. Â
- Ohio State returns seven of its top nine scorers from a season ago. Among the returnees is Brynn Ammerman, who had a team-high 28 assists and ranked second with 48 points. Leah Sax was second on the squad with 29 goals and ranked third with 36 points. Zoe Coleman was second with 14 assists and added 18 goals for 32 points. Kate Tyack and Annie Hargraves both notched 24 goals last season to tie for third on the squad.Â
- Among returnees, Hargraves was second on the team with 52 draw controls in 2024, Kampbell Stone had 27 and Emily Magalotti had 32.Â
- Hargraves, Magalotti, Sax and Lilli Sherman are serving as the Buckeye captains this season.Â
- Head coach Amanda Moore and assistant coaches Tianna Wallpher and Ally Kennedy are in their second year on the Buckeye staff. Caroline Kimel joined the group during the offseason.
- Three Buckeye games - March 12 at Oregon, March 27 vs. Michigan and April 10 vs. Johns Hopkins - will be televised by BTN. The remaining home games - and Big Ten road games - will be streamed through B1G+. Nonconference road game streaming will be handled by the home schools.
- Three Buckeye standouts were selected Big Ten Players to Watch.
- Brynn Ammerman, a senior from West Chester, Pa., who plays attack, led the Buckeyes with 28 assists and was second with 48 points a season ago. A starter in all 17 games in 2024, she ranked fifth on the squad with 20 goals. Ammerman enters her senior year with 31 career games played, with 57 points on 25 goals and 32 assists. She was a IWLCA Academic Honor Roll selection in 2024 and a 2023 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and has earned Academic All-Big Ten and Ohio State Scholar-Athlete accolades.
- Annie Hargraves, a senior midfielder from Upper Arlington, Ohio, started all 17 games in 2024 and ws third on the team with 24 goals, adding an assist for 25 points, while ranking second on the squad with 52 draw controls. A team captain this season, she enters the year with 34 career games played, recording 37 goals and 38 points with 55 draw controls, all in the last two years after missing her freshman year because of injury. Hargraves earned B1G Distinguished Scholar and IWLCA Academic Honor Roll accolades in 2024 and she is a three-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete and a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
- Jocelyn Torres, a native of Glenwood, Md., is a goalie in her first year as a Buckeye. She spent the last two seasons at Virginia Tech, where she played and started all 37 games for the Hokies, with a 10.99 goals-against average, 277 saves, .440 save percentage, 19 wins, 70 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers. She was selected to the 2023 ACC All-Freshman Team and earned ACC All-Academic Team accolades.
- The 2025 edition of the Ohio State schedule features eight home games, including Big Ten matchups vs. USC, Michigan, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern.
- Ohio State will host Louisville at 10 a.m. Feb. 15 to close out its two-game homestand to open the year. Â
- The Buckeyes will head to Nashville for a game vs. Vanderbilt Feb. 22 and then return home to host Akron Feb. 26. March begins with a road game at Robert Morris, followed by a home contest against Cincinnati.
- Ohio State's Big Ten slate kicks off at Oregon March 12 over spring break, with a game at San Diego State to follow March 15 to close out the nonconference schedule.
- USC visits Columbus March 23 before the Buckeyes host Michigan March 27. Road games at Rutgers (March 30) and Penn State (April 6) are up next. Johns Hopkins will come to Columbus April 10 and the Buckeyes will then head to Maryland for an April 13 matchup. The regular season ends for the Buckeyes at home vs. Northwestern April 19.
- The top seven teams in the final Big Ten standings will earn a berth in the Big Ten Tournament, which will be held April 23-27 in College Park, Md.
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