SPORTS Historic career comes 12 | Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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Kollin Moore and Luke Pletcher aim to qualify for the Olympics following cancellation of collegiate season. ON PAGE 10
to a close for Dunne KAYLA HARVEY Lantern reporter harvey.586@osu.edu Jincy Dunne was ready to burst onto the scene as a freshman for the Ohio State women’s hockey team. At just 16 years old, the defenseman made the final round of cuts for the 2014 U.S. Winter Olympic team, barely missing out on the squad. A year later, she scored the game-winning goal to capture a gold medal for the U.S. women’s national ice hock-
ey team in the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation U18 Women’s World Championship. Ohio State head coach Nadine Muzerall, who was an assistant coach at Minnesota at the time, said Dunne was on every college program’s radar. “Everybody wanted her. She was the youngest ever centralized in the Olympics among adult women that are in their 30s,” Muzerall said. But Dunne’s trip to collegiate ice hit a roadblock the summer before her first season was slated
to start. A head injury forced her to sit out the 2015-16 campaign and left her unable to travel with the Buckeyes. It was far from the last obstacle Dunne would overcome at Ohio State. Dunne survived the yearlong setback and remained in the program through head coaching turnover and NCAA violations only to have her best chance at a national title taken away in her final year. But along the tumultuous journey, she may have cemented a DUNNE CONTINUES ON 11
CORI WADE | ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR
Ohio State then-sophomore quarterback Justin Fields (1) runs the ball down the field during the first half of the game against Penn State Nov. 23. Ohio State won 28-17.
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No Spring Game, no big deal GRIFFIN STROM Sports Editor strom.25@osu.edu
MACKENZIE SHANKLIN | LANTERN REPORTER
Ohio State redshirt senior defenseman Jincy Dunne (33) moves the puck down the ice during the Ohio State-Bemidji State game Jan.31. Ohio State won 7-2.
The Spring Game is an annual oasis for fans left dried out from a three-month college football drought, but there was no such satiation in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday. In a town where a national record-setting six-figure crowd gathered to watch Ohio State’s glorified scrimmage just four years ago, there wasn’t one to be found in the stands at Ohio Stadium during the exhibition’s origi-
nally scheduled April 11 date. With sports on an indefinite worldwide hiatus, fans would have welcomed even the most half-hearted gridiron demonstration, but disappointed Buckeye supporters can take solace in the fact that the events of the Spring Game often carry little to no weight in determining the course of the season for any particular player. Look no further than the game’s latest edition for proof. Junior quarterback Justin Fields’ most underwhelming performance at Ohio Stadium thus SPRING GAME CONTINUES ON 10
