Football wasn’t the only Ohio State sports team impacted by the Big Ten’s decision to postpone fall sports.
Ohio State’s men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s cross country teams also had their fall seasons canceled when the Big Ten made the move two weeks ago to shut down fall sports, and they too were hurt by the news.
“I think that we’ve handled it pretty much like everybody in the athletics department and all the fans of Buckeye Nation,” said women’s soccer coach Lori Walker-Hock. “You go through the whole gamut of emotions from denial, probably at the beginning, that ‘Oh, c’mon, this can’t be happening,’ to sadness, to disappointment, to anger.