Of the 330 athletes preparing to compete in the 2010 NCAA Wrestling Championships in Omaha, Neb., nine are OSU wrestlers and all but one of those nine have earned national seeds.
Senior heavyweight Jared Rosholt and sophomore 141-pounder Jamal Parks solidified the highest seeds for the Cowboys earning the No. 2 spots in their weight classes.
He ran out onto the field with his soccer jersey around his knees.
It was much too big for him.
Most four-year-old kids would have been intimidated playing with older kids, but not him. Colby Lowe wanted to compete and he wanted to win.
Now 15 years later, Lowe is a sophomore in college and a member of the OSU cross country and track teams.
The doctors told Megan Byford she would never play another serious game of basketball again.
She had damaged her knees enough to derail any dreams of a career in the game she loves, they said.
There was little reason for anyone to believe she should be playing basketball after four surgeries in seven years. Her right knee needed operation in 2003, followed by her left one in 2005. Both needed a tune up in 2008. The 2004 surgery to her wrist seems trivial in comparison.
When your life is softball, like mine, losses are your obstacles to overcome.
They’re going to happen, even to the best teams. The toughest losses to overcome are the ones that you know you should have won. My team and I had one of those losses Tuesday against Tulsa.
It was just one of those games where we couldn’t get anything to click. We couldn’t pitch, we couldn’t get the hits when we needed them and we couldn’t make routine plays.
It’s hard to win a softball game that way.
Like most other seniors, Zac Robinson and Russell Okung are spending their final semester preparing to enter the job market.
Unlike their fellow jobseekers, though, Robinson and Okung’s future employers are NFL franchises and their exams include running the 40-yard dash and doing bench presses.
On Wednesday, OSU’s departing quarterback and left tackle, along with 16 other senior Cowboys, performed in OSU’s Pro Day in one of their final chances to stand out before the draft in April.