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Ohio State University Athletics
Ohio State University offers a plethora of athletic teams, including football, baseball, fencing, cross country, and track & field. Men’s and women’s clubs include golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, soccer, and tennis. Football is a dominant sport at Ohio State University. The Buckeye football team won their first ever conference championship in 1916 against the Northwestern Wildcats. In what some consider the greatest Buckeyes game ever, unbeaten Ohio State met unbeaten Notre Dame, and though Notre Dame won in the game’s final seconds, many Buckeyes still consider this meeting a classic. Most recently, the 2002 Buckeyes delivered the first ever 14-0 season in Division I-A, capped off by OSU’s defeat of Miami in the Fiesta Bowl.
Athletic facilities at Ohio State University include Ohio Stadium (football), Bill Davis Stadium (baseball), Buckeye Field (softball), Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, McCorkle Aquatics Pavilion, OSU Ice Rink, and Lt. Hugh W. Wylie Range.
Ohio State University is an NCAA Division I school, with baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, soccer, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling for men and basketball, cross-country, diving, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing (crew), soccer, softball, swimming, synchronized swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball for women. The team nickname is the Buckeyes.
There are numerous facilities to accommodate the sports including stadiums, a baseball field, an aquatic center, a tennis center, a rifle range, and an ice rink. The football stadium has a capacity of over 101,000 people. In 2004, the football team had an attendance record of 838,963 people over eight games. The team is nationally known and recognized.
There is a large cheerleading squad, a mascot (“Brutus Buckeye”), and a marching band. Ohio State University athletes donate time to the community in order to serve charitable causes and teach children.
