Track & Field: Bobcat throwers share bond off the field
By Joey Flannery | Mar. 21, 2018The friendship of junior weight thrower Gaza Odunaiya and senior shot putter Jordan Porter has led to success throughout the season.
The friendship of junior weight thrower Gaza Odunaiya and senior shot putter Jordan Porter has led to success throughout the season.
With the outdoor season ahead of it, Ohio will have to build on its successes and remedy its struggles from the indoor season.
Ohio was unable to bounce back from its worst collective round of the year at the Pinehurst Intercollegiate.
Ohio began the tournament with a solid first round but was unable to replicate that success in the following two rounds.
Ohio scored 13 total points after placing in four events.
The Bobcats had their worst three-round score of the season over the weekend at the Rio Verde Invitational.
Ohio will head to Bowling Green for the MAC Championships on Friday
Odunaiya broke the school record in weight throw Friday.
Ohio traveled to Florida to begin its spring season and finished fifth, winning two of its three matches.
The Bobcats collided with a tough field that included four Mid-American Conference foes and two power-five schools but performed strongly.
The Bobcats need to prove themselves this weekend.
In temperatures 50 degrees higher than Athens, Ohio opened the spring season with the 2018 Mid-American Conference Match Play Challenge.
Ohio recorded a season-best nine event wins and 37 top-ten finishes on the day.
The Track and Field team is preparing for the Thundering Herd Invitational on Friday
The Bobcats will have their first meet of the spring semester.
The Bobcats struggled Thursday in their first indoor meet of the season.
The frigid outdoor temperatures haven’t stopped coach Clay Calkins and the Bobcats from preparing for another season of indoor track & field.
Ali Johnstone has been named head coach of the field hockey team.
Neil Macmillan and the university "parted ways" on Friday.
Ohio allowed 43 shots in two games, dropping both to end the season.