Fifth-year senior Ohio State Buckeyes, and walk-on Ninja Warrior Ohio State Buckeyes

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Clay Raterman is half of Thursday’s Buckeye Discuss Podcast. He’s the American Ninja Warrior half and the walk-on half. He’s a man who tried out for the Ohio State soccer workforce a number of instances, along with his final likelihood approaching the identical day he was scheduled to compete in an American Ninja Warrior competitors in Los Angeles in 2017. Clay also has a YouTube channel that options movies on coaching, enterprise and succeed as a walk-on school athlete. You possibly can watch his second Ninja Warrior race, as he represented Ohio State in a university workforce competitors, on the high of this publish.

Hearken to the most recent episode to absorb his story. It’s one thing a bit totally different on the pod. However the first half is soccer, and what fifth-year seniors imply to the Ohio State soccer workforce.

For the 2021 season, there are presently six gamers nonetheless on the roster from the unique 2017 recruiting class of 21 gamers: Haskell Garrett, Thayer Munford, Marcus Williamson, Jaylen Harris, Jerron Cage and Elijah Gardiner.

For the 2020 season, there have been six gamers nonetheless round in 12 months 5 from the 24-player 2016 class: Jonathon Cooper, Luke Farrell, Tuf Borland, Demario McCall, Jake Hausmann and Drue Chrisman.

For the 2019 season, 9 gamers had been a part of the workforce from the 2015 recruiting class of 26 gamers: Okay.J. Hill, Davon Hamilton, Damon Arnette, Robert Landers, Branden Bowen, Justin Hilliard, Jashon Cornell, Rashod Berry and Liam McCullough. They represented an enormous contribution from fifth-year gamers in Ryan Day’s fist season, as 5 began and all 9 performed vital roles.

For the 2018 season, seven gamers from the 2014 recruiting class of 23 gamers remained: Parris Campbell, Terry McLaurin, Johnnie Dixon, Demetrius Knox, Dante Booker, Brady Taylor and Sean Nuernberger. These three receivers had been a spotlight of the offense, whereas Knox began on the offensive line.

So how necessary are fifth-year seniors to a program like Ohio State? And the way may fifth-year seniors impression the Buckeyes within the seasons forward? That’s what Nathan Baird, Stephen Means and I talked about within the first a part of the episode.

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