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Sade Olatoye Named Big Ten Honoree for 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year Award

Congrats to track and field star Sade Olatoye!

Ohio State track and field star Sade Olatoye was selected as the Big Ten honoree for the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year Award on Monday. She is one of 152 conference-level honorees selected. The news follows a previously nominated 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

In the classroom, Olatoye was a four-time academic All-Big Ten honoree and six-time OSU Scholar-Athlete. She also won the Big Ten’s Wayne Duke Postgraduate Scholarship towards her graduate studies after receiving the NCAA Winter Sports Postgraduate Scholarship last winter.

On the field, she was dominant in the shot put and weight throw for the track and field program. She tied the school record for most individual Big Ten championships in field events – six. Four of those came in the shot put with three of those coming indoors (2017, 2018, 2019), and one of the outdoor variety (2017). Olatoye took two Big Ten championships home in the weight throw (2017, 2019).

As a 2019 First-Team All-American in the weight throw, she also owns four school records. shot put indoor (17.88m), shot put outdoor (17.88m), weight throw (24.46m), and hammer throw (67.49m).

Congrats are definitely in order for Olatoye for not only a great career, but for this distinguished honor.

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Ryan Terefenko, Sade Olatoye named Ohio State’s Big Ten Medal of Honor recipents

Women’s track and field star Sade Olatoye and men’s lacrosse’s Ryan Terefenko were named Ohio State’s Big Ten Medal of Honor recipients.

Men’s lacrosse star Ryan Tefefenko and women’s track and field champion Sade Olatoye have been named Ohio State’s male and female Big Ten Medal of Honor recipients. The recognition is considered the most prestigious award handed out by the Big Ten annually.

The award was first given out in 1915 to one student-athlete from the graduating class of each university who had “attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work.” Big Ten schools currently feature more than 8,200 student-athletes, but only 28 earn this prestigious award on an annual basis.

“I’ll never be able to put into words what receiving the Big Ten Medal of Honor means to me,” said Terefenko in a statement. “My time at Ohio State was the best years of my life, and being able to represent and compete for this athletic department and university has been the biggest honor of my life. It’s incredibly humbling knowing the number of people who have had such a massive impact on my life throughout my career here. None of this would have been possible without the support system that I had at Ohio State and my family. Thank you.”

Terefenko is just the third men’s lacrosse player to receive the award, joining Roger Beck in 1962 and Kevin Stephan in 2002.

“When we talk about what it means to be a Buckeye lacrosse player, Ryan exemplifies it all,” said head coach Nick Myers. “By every measure, he’s an outstanding and deserving recipient of this award. It’s a fitting way to end his collegiate career. Now, we’ll look forward to rooting him on as a professional and watch him have a positive impact of the sport as a coach.”

Sade Olatoye, will go down as one of the greatest student-athletes in Ohio State’s rich athletics history. She is a seven-time Big Ten Conference champion, national champion, five-time All-American, and winner of four prestigious post-graduate scholarships

“Sade is that combination of great athlete and serious student, and she is possessed with a will to succeed,” said Dennis, whose program has won half of its all-time total of Big Ten championships – four of eight – with Sade on the team. “She’s been the pulse of our team and has led us to heights unachievable without her.”

Congrats on one whale of an achievement for both of these great ambassadors for the Ohio State athletic department.

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Sade Olatoye of OSU women’s track and field a NCAA Woman of the Year nominee

Ohio State women’s track and field weight-throw NCAA champ Sade Olatoye has been nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year.

Sade Olatoye of the Ohio State women’s track and field team may have been lights out in the women’s weight throw, winning the NCAA title last season, but that’s not all that she should be known for. In fact, this past week, she was nominated as one of 605 female college athletes nationwide to be nominated for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

Member schools are encouraged to honor their top graduating female college athletes each year by submitting their names for consideration for the Woman of the Year Award, and it appears as though Ohio State has decided to nominate Olatoye for her efforts on and off the field.

According to the release from OSU, Olatoye won six Big Ten championships and was a two-time Big Ten Indoor Field Athlete of the Year. She graduated this past May with her degree in health sciences and was also a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar for mainlining a grade-point average of 3.70 or better in the 2019-20 academic year. Olatoye was also a four-time OSU Scholar-Athlete and three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.

Olatoye was also the 2019 Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year, and holds four Ohio State records: both indoor (17.88m) and outdoor (17.88m) shot put marks along with weight throw (24.46m) and hammer throw (67.49m). She also competed for the Nigerian Senior National Team and won the shot put championship at the 2019 All African Games in Rabat, Morocco. Olatoye also competed for Nigeria at the 2019 World Championships.

Outside of athletics, she is active in the African Youth League, Ohio State’s Sexual Violence Prevention Task Force, and was the council chair of the Peer Educators, among other activities.

The next step is for individual conference offices to select up to two nominees each from their pool of member school nominees. Then, the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees –10 from each division.

Out of those 30, nine finalists will be selected (three for each division). The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics then will choose the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year, who will be named this fall.

 

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