Men’s Golf
The Men’s Golf team has won numerous championships, including 23 Big Ten Championships, most recently in 2004. The team has been part of the Big Ten since at least 1928, when it won its first Championship. Jim Brown, who played the No. 1 position on the golf team from 1963-65 as a student, served as team coach from 1974-2009, one of the longest-serving coaches in Buckeye history.
Men's Golf Team, 1928
Golfer John Cook with sister Cathy, 1978
Jim Brown, golf coach
Women’s Golf
Ohio State was actually the originator of the first women’s golf championship in the country, which also happened to be the first national championship to be held for any women’s sport.
In 1941 Ohio State hosted the 1st Women’s National Collegiate Golf Tournament, made possible by the work of Gladys Palmer – then-chairwoman of the women’s division of the phys-ed department – and the support of then-Director of Athletics Lynn St. John. The tournament went on to be hosted by other institutions for many years and was eventually taken over in 1973 by the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. The NCAA took control of the championships in 1982.
Women's Golf action, 1940s
Gladys Palmer, 1957
Women’s Volleyball
The Women’s Volleyball Team was formed in 1971, and joined the NCAA in 1975. The team has won the Big Ten Championship in 1989, 1991 and 1994.
Women's Volleyball action, no date
Women’s Field Hockey
The earliest reference to Women’s Field Hockey that we know of comes from a brochure in 1920, listing Field Hockey under fall women’s sports. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the sport was sponsored by the women’s department of athletics, which sponsored tournaments. The sport gained Varsity Status in 1971. The sport was officially sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference in 1981, and OSU hosted its first conference later that year.
Women's Field Hockey action, 1959
Women's Field Hockey action, 1982-83
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