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LGHL Ohio State lands four-star WR, misses on five-star RB
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Ohio State lands four-star WR, misses on five-star RB
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2026 WR Jerquaden Guilford with Ohio State head coach Ryan Day | via @QuayGuilford on Twitter
The Buckeyes are active on the trail across multiple sports.
Ohio State’s 2026 recruiting class has hit a bit of a rough patch over the last month or so.
The Buckeyes’ current group still ranks good for No. 7 in the country, which would be incredible for almost any other school in the country. That being said, Ohio State has missed out on a number of its top targets recently, most specifically along the defensive line, and it feels like the national title win is not reflecting on the trail right now.
However, the program was able to get back in the win column over the weekend when four-star wide receiver Jerquaden Guilford announced his commitment to Ohio State. Choosing the Buckeyes over Ole Miss, who reportedly had a far greater NIL offer on the table, it is yet another recruiting victory for Brian Hartline — but what else is new?
Guilford comes in as a four-star prospect and the No. 50 WR in the class, ranking as the No. 315 overall player in the class, per the 247Sports Composite. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound pass-catcher is also the No. 1 player out of his home state of Indiana. Guilford had been previously committed to Penn State since last December, but re-opened his recruitment in February before eventually landing with the Buckeyes.
“I want to be special so I got to join a special program. An elite program. I want to be an elite receiver. Elite receivers go to Ohio State.” Guilford told On3. “The people. The development. Coach Hartline’s process don’t lie. He develops guys the best way. Always has first rounders. The receiver room is excellent. You’re going to be around that environment every day competing.”
Here is some of 247Sports national analyst Hudson Standish had to say of Guilford’s abilities:
Guilford becomes the fifth and most likely final receiver commit for Ohio State in this 2026 class, joining five-star Chris Henry Jr., a top-100 overall player in Kayden Dixon-Wyatt and another pair of four-stars in Jaeden Ricketts and Brock Boyd. Guilford will become the second Fort Wayne-area wideout on the roster, joining former New Haven standout Mylan Graham.
Another job well done for Hartline, college football’s No. 1 recruiter and talent developer can now shift his focus fully onto the 2027 class, where he already holds a commitment from the nation’s No. 1 wide receiver in five-star Jamier Brown.
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2026 WR Jerquaden Guilford with Ohio State head coach Ryan Day | via @QuayGuilford on Twitter
The Buckeyes are active on the trail across multiple sports.
Ohio State’s 2026 recruiting class has hit a bit of a rough patch over the last month or so.
The Buckeyes’ current group still ranks good for No. 7 in the country, which would be incredible for almost any other school in the country. That being said, Ohio State has missed out on a number of its top targets recently, most specifically along the defensive line, and it feels like the national title win is not reflecting on the trail right now.
However, the program was able to get back in the win column over the weekend when four-star wide receiver Jerquaden Guilford announced his commitment to Ohio State. Choosing the Buckeyes over Ole Miss, who reportedly had a far greater NIL offer on the table, it is yet another recruiting victory for Brian Hartline — but what else is new?
Guilford comes in as a four-star prospect and the No. 50 WR in the class, ranking as the No. 315 overall player in the class, per the 247Sports Composite. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound pass-catcher is also the No. 1 player out of his home state of Indiana. Guilford had been previously committed to Penn State since last December, but re-opened his recruitment in February before eventually landing with the Buckeyes.
“I want to be special so I got to join a special program. An elite program. I want to be an elite receiver. Elite receivers go to Ohio State.” Guilford told On3. “The people. The development. Coach Hartline’s process don’t lie. He develops guys the best way. Always has first rounders. The receiver room is excellent. You’re going to be around that environment every day competing.”
Here is some of 247Sports national analyst Hudson Standish had to say of Guilford’s abilities:
Guilford becomes the fifth and most likely final receiver commit for Ohio State in this 2026 class, joining five-star Chris Henry Jr., a top-100 overall player in Kayden Dixon-Wyatt and another pair of four-stars in Jaeden Ricketts and Brock Boyd. Guilford will become the second Fort Wayne-area wideout on the roster, joining former New Haven standout Mylan Graham.
Another job well done for Hartline, college football’s No. 1 recruiter and talent developer can now shift his focus fully onto the 2027 class, where he already holds a commitment from the nation’s No. 1 wide receiver in five-star Jamier Brown.
Quick Hits
- Guilford wasn’t the only BOOOM for Buckeyes’ athletic programs over the weekend, as Kevin McGuff’s squad added their first member of the 2026 class with the commitment of four-star guard Atlee Vanesko. The No. 5 combo guard and No. 57 overall player in the cycle per the 247Sports Composite, Vanesko helped Westtown School win its fourth-straight PAISAA championship during the 2024-25 season.
- Staying on the hardwood, the men’s team learned on Sunday that they would be receiving a visit from 2027 guard LJ Smith. The 6-foot-4, 180-pound North Carolina native currently ranks as the No. 2 CG and No. 27 overall player in the class as a five-star prospect. Smith does not yet hold an Ohio State offer, but does have offers from more than a dozen schools, including Georgia, Kansas, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech and others.
- Ohio State missed out on one of its few remaining running back targets on Sunday when five-star RB Derrek Cooper announced his commitment to Texas. The nation’s No. 2 RB and No. 29 player overall chose the Longhorns out of a top five schools that also included the Buckeyes alongside Florida State, Georgia and Miami.
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LGHL Ohio State starts 2026 class commitments with guard Atlee Vanesko
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Ohio State starts 2026 class commitments with guard Atlee Vanesko
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Atlee Vanesko on Instagram | @atlee.vanesko
Head coach Kevin McGuff begins a potentially large 2026 class with top-100 point guard recruit.
While the stars of the WNBA were performing at All-Star weekend on Friday night, Ohio State women’s basketball began putting together their 2026 recruiting class. That is when point guard recruit Atlee Vanesko took to Instagram and announced her commitment to the Buckeyes.
Vanesko is a 5-foot-11 guard out of the Westtown School in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a town northwest of Philadelphia. The guard is ranked No. 57 on 247Sports and No. 78 on ESPN’s NEXT 100 rankings. Vanesko also led Westtown to four straight PAISAA titles.
With Vanesko, the Buckeyes get a player who can deliver offensively as a three-level scorer and can find teammates through accurate passing. The combo guard chose Ohio State over the University of Miami, Stanford and Virginia Tech and is the first player to choose Ohio State for the program’s 2026 class.
That gives head coach Kevin McGuff depth at the point guard role next season behind then junior Jaloni Cambridge. Should Cambridge play all four seasons in scarlet and gray, the addition of Vanesko gives the guard two seasons backing up Cambridge before potentially sliding into a starting position.
Vanesko is one of potentially many recruits to join Ohio State in this cycle, if all goes the way McGuff and the Buckeyes hope.
At media day in the fall of 2024, McGuff addressed the program’s recruiting plan. After Ohio State brought in five freshman in the 2024 class, all of whom are still in the program, 2025 was set to be a light year. Ohio State brought in two recruits with Daria Biriuk and Bryn Martin. The latter, the 2025 Ohio Division I Player of the Year, flipped her commitment from the Washington Huskies to the Buckeyes late in the cycle, on May 18.
With much of the recruiting class still uncommitted, and Ohio State offering scholarships to many of the top names in the class, the recruiting news is not over for the Buckeyes.
Named Gatorade D.C. Player of the Year, small forward Jordyn Jackson (No. 8 ESPN, No. 16 247Sports) also included Ohio State in her top six schools, alongside TCU, Alabama, University of Miami, Maryland and South Carolina.
Another name to watch is McKenna Woliczko (No. 6 ESPN and 247Sports). The 6-foot-2 forward from California who has Ohio State in her top four schools, alongside fellow Big Ten schools Iowa and USC, plus Dawn Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks.
The addition of Vanesko is a strong start for Ohio State and fills a need at the position. Currently, Cambridge and fellow sophomore Ava Watson are the two guard options for the Buckeyes in the upcoming 2025-26 season with the graduation of Madison Greene and transfer of graduate senior Kaia Henderson.
Below are highlights of the guard from 2024. In them, Vanesko shows her ability to run to the basket, hit shots from midrange and deep.
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Atlee Vanesko on Instagram | @atlee.vanesko
Head coach Kevin McGuff begins a potentially large 2026 class with top-100 point guard recruit.
While the stars of the WNBA were performing at All-Star weekend on Friday night, Ohio State women’s basketball began putting together their 2026 recruiting class. That is when point guard recruit Atlee Vanesko took to Instagram and announced her commitment to the Buckeyes.
Vanesko is a 5-foot-11 guard out of the Westtown School in Norristown, Pennsylvania, a town northwest of Philadelphia. The guard is ranked No. 57 on 247Sports and No. 78 on ESPN’s NEXT 100 rankings. Vanesko also led Westtown to four straight PAISAA titles.
With Vanesko, the Buckeyes get a player who can deliver offensively as a three-level scorer and can find teammates through accurate passing. The combo guard chose Ohio State over the University of Miami, Stanford and Virginia Tech and is the first player to choose Ohio State for the program’s 2026 class.
That gives head coach Kevin McGuff depth at the point guard role next season behind then junior Jaloni Cambridge. Should Cambridge play all four seasons in scarlet and gray, the addition of Vanesko gives the guard two seasons backing up Cambridge before potentially sliding into a starting position.
Vanesko is one of potentially many recruits to join Ohio State in this cycle, if all goes the way McGuff and the Buckeyes hope.
At media day in the fall of 2024, McGuff addressed the program’s recruiting plan. After Ohio State brought in five freshman in the 2024 class, all of whom are still in the program, 2025 was set to be a light year. Ohio State brought in two recruits with Daria Biriuk and Bryn Martin. The latter, the 2025 Ohio Division I Player of the Year, flipped her commitment from the Washington Huskies to the Buckeyes late in the cycle, on May 18.
With much of the recruiting class still uncommitted, and Ohio State offering scholarships to many of the top names in the class, the recruiting news is not over for the Buckeyes.
Named Gatorade D.C. Player of the Year, small forward Jordyn Jackson (No. 8 ESPN, No. 16 247Sports) also included Ohio State in her top six schools, alongside TCU, Alabama, University of Miami, Maryland and South Carolina.
Another name to watch is McKenna Woliczko (No. 6 ESPN and 247Sports). The 6-foot-2 forward from California who has Ohio State in her top four schools, alongside fellow Big Ten schools Iowa and USC, plus Dawn Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks.
The addition of Vanesko is a strong start for Ohio State and fills a need at the position. Currently, Cambridge and fellow sophomore Ava Watson are the two guard options for the Buckeyes in the upcoming 2025-26 season with the graduation of Madison Greene and transfer of graduate senior Kaia Henderson.
Below are highlights of the guard from 2024. In them, Vanesko shows her ability to run to the basket, hit shots from midrange and deep.
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LGHL A renewed love of art helps Madison Greene transition to life after basketball
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A renewed love of art helps Madison Greene transition to life after basketball
ThomasCostello via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
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Madison Greene at the “Intersections” art exhibit pop-up, March 28,. 2025 | Danielle Williams
Soon after the end of the college basketball season, Greene stood up in front of a much different crowd
Imagine spending over 20 years with a singular focus. Sure, there are extracurricular activities, other responsibilities, and time spent with friends and family, but for a vast majority of college basketball players, the court looms over it all. Whether it's traveling for hours to play in youth AAU matchups, skipping high school hangouts to practice, or hopping on a plane to fly across the country with a university’s name stitched across your chest — Ohio State women’s basketball guard Madison Greene lived that life.
The Pickerington, Ohio native, raised just outside of Columbus proper in the halo of suburbs that surround the state’s capital, went from highly touted youth basketball player to top 100 recruit to Big Ten champion. For six years, nearly a fourth of Greene’s life, the guard’s play sprinkled on top of key moments in the program’s history.
Then, on March 23, 2025, it all ended. Ohio State took a four-point lead into the second quarter against the Tennessee Volunteers in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament, which vanished quickly. The Scarlet and Gray never recovered.
Now, for that vast majority of players, minus a select few who make playing basketball professionally a career, the final defeat is a screeching halt for a major chapter of life.
Greene knows about screeching halts. Despite making it into the starting five as a late recruited freshman and being a quiet leader in her years in Columbus, Greene is most known, basketball-wise, as a player whose career was hampered by severe injuries. In both 2021 and 2022, Greene tore her ACL and required a combined two years of recovery before her final year and a half as a Buckeye.
Those final two seasons saw Greene move into a role player for Ohio State. She played behind fellow 2019 freshman recruit Jacy Sheldon and freshman star Jaloni Cambridge.
So, after that final loss for any player, what’s next? Many move into the “real world,” find jobs and become “productive members of society,” while some try anyway to stay in the sport, and who can blame them? Spend all of your formative years around a game as fun as basketball, and compare it to that “real world,” and the better option is clear.
For Greene, it was not the sport that dictated what she did next, but the injuries. More specifically, the life passion that came from those years of recovery. Five days after that loss, Greene was back in front of the public but not on a basketball court. Greene stepped onto the art studio floor and showed elements of herself that no fan saw in six years at Ohio State.
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Madison Greene
Flower Girl or I am not broken by Madison Greene
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Madison Greene
Flower Girl or I am not broken art piece description, by Madison Greene.
“Flower Girl or I am not broken” was the first piece of art that Greene created during the recovery from her first ACL tear. The piece uses paint, flowers, and real shards of glass to represent the different parts of Greene’s life. The pieces that make Madison Greene Madison Greene.
Greene wrote in the piece’s description, “if the painting was missing any of these three mediums, it would be less interesting, less special and less beautiful,” and it is not hard to see the connection between the broken glass and the trials Greene faced in her six seasons at Ohio State.
Art interpretation is up to the person interpreting the art, and this one tells a story. It also serves as a reminder that a person is not only the bad things that happen but the sum of the pain, celebrations, and beauty that make life.
During the season, Greene spoke more about this specific piece, explained this “self-portrait,” and more on Ohio State’s social media.
That work of art was one of two pieces by Greene displayed at Ohio State’s Urban Art Space from March 28 through April 5, part of their “Intersections” pop-up exhibit. Friend and former team manager Danielle Matthews urged Greene to submit her art to try and get into the exhibit. Greene followed the advice and nearly missed that she was selected.
“I didn’t know that I got accepted, because they told me through an email,” said Greene. “I had just gotten a new email that I put in there, so I did not realize that they had sent me that I got accepted.”
Fortunately for Greene, she eventually checked it and five days after her basketball career ended, stood in front of her work for friends, family, and complete strangers to see and read.
Now, for a top-tier college athlete who has played in front of crowds of tens of thousands of people, standing for a few hours does not seem too difficult, but while sports and art overlap, there is a different level of vulnerability.
“Basketball is definitely more people watching you, and it’s a bigger audience, and they really just see the outside. They see the sports side of you,” said Greene. “But with the art stuff, it just felt more personable.”
For hours, Greene stood by her paintings to talk to fellow artists, visitors of the exhibit and family, friends, and former teammates. It was an opportunity to build a community where relationships are built on art that originates from complicated, sometimes nagging, thoughts and feelings for Greene.
“I’ve always enjoyed art, like even when I was little,” said Greene. “I never was like, amazing at it or put a lot of effort into it, I would just like to have a random art class, and just do what the teacher told me to do. But I think that painting definitely kind of started the whole trajectory.”
It was no coincidence that the first piece of art she created, which was not assigned to her by a high school art teacher, featured the broken elements. While Ohio State went on to win the Big Ten Regular Season title in the 2021-22 season, Greene was with the team every moment of the surprise season, but always on the sidelines, watching practice or taking shots on her own.
Greene rehabbed her torn ACL and took time away from being able to play the game she loved. Years of spending time dribbling a ball and living on the court, gone in an instant. Art was not to fill Greene’s downtime, which is not much for a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Athlete. No, it was part of Greene’s recovery.
Not only did Greene recover twice, but she also strengthened her desire to express herself creatively through art.
“A lot of the time, it really just happens randomly,” said Greene. “I’ll get thoughts in my head like, ‘Oh, that’s a cool idea,’ or sometimes like it’s just emotions or experiences or thoughts that I continuously have something that’s been lasting in my mind for, let’s say, a couple weeks or a couple months. Then I’m like, ‘Oh, this feeling or thought means something to me.’”
One of Greene’s moments of inspiration turned into a drawing of a phoenix. The fiery bird that rises up from the ashes, often used to represent coming back to life. A situation all too familiar to Greene.
“Something that I wanted to remind myself about before I even drew it or before I came up with the idea was that I’m powerful, that I’m magical, that I’m beautiful, I’m lovable, and that I’m valuable,” said Greene.
She reminded herself of that when she made the phoenix painting that still hangs up in Greene’s room, which in and of itself serves as a constant reminder to herself about who she is as a person.
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Also created in 2022, “The Meaning is in the Middle” focuses on the juxtaposition of life and death, fear and beauty. Between a face of life and another of death is a Venn diagram-like effect with the two overlapping eyes bursting into an area of stars. Instead of contrasting them, it shows how the ends of the spectrums of life are connected. Spiders and butterflies live in harmony.
The pieces submitted and on display at the exhibit center around Greene’s identity, each coming from those thoughts and feelings on her mind that she wants to get out.
Now, Greene herself is in the middle of one of the largest life transitions people will face — the end of formal education and the start of the rest of your life. For Greene, it will not be spent trying to earn a training camp contract in the WNBA or globe-hopping across Europe and Asia for opportunities to continue playing basketball. The love of the sport is there, but Greene’s rediscovery of art has taken control.
Through friends and other connections, Greene has interned for different artists and industries. From pressing wedding bouquets into pieces of art with a local floral preservation company called Story Pressed or shadowing event planners and florists, Greene is taking something that was once a tool in rehabilitation to become the focus of how she wants to live the rest of her life.
“I want to do something that I’m passionate about, something that’s creative, something that has variety, and it’s fun,” said Greene.
That does not mean that it will be easy. It’s well known that the arts do not compare to the business or tech worlds in terms of income, but for Greene, right now, it’s about the process of learning while she spends time in the middle of this life transition.
The art exhibit represents that movement. It’s the first step of a long journey for the former basketball star. Once basketball stopped looming over each part of her life, it did not come with fear to share her art. Sure, there were the usual feelings associated with losing a game of sports, especially at the highest level, but the usually quiet and reserved Greene was the exact opposite about sharing her artwork.
“It kind of lifted my spirits in a way to be able to express myself and do something that I’ve never done before. I think it’s really just going to help me figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life,” said Greene. “I’m not really sure yet, obviously, but I think having that exhibition, after the tournament, it was exciting, just to see where life could take me in the future.”
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ThomasCostello via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Madison Greene at the “Intersections” art exhibit pop-up, March 28,. 2025 | Danielle Williams
Soon after the end of the college basketball season, Greene stood up in front of a much different crowd
Imagine spending over 20 years with a singular focus. Sure, there are extracurricular activities, other responsibilities, and time spent with friends and family, but for a vast majority of college basketball players, the court looms over it all. Whether it's traveling for hours to play in youth AAU matchups, skipping high school hangouts to practice, or hopping on a plane to fly across the country with a university’s name stitched across your chest — Ohio State women’s basketball guard Madison Greene lived that life.
The Pickerington, Ohio native, raised just outside of Columbus proper in the halo of suburbs that surround the state’s capital, went from highly touted youth basketball player to top 100 recruit to Big Ten champion. For six years, nearly a fourth of Greene’s life, the guard’s play sprinkled on top of key moments in the program’s history.
Then, on March 23, 2025, it all ended. Ohio State took a four-point lead into the second quarter against the Tennessee Volunteers in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament, which vanished quickly. The Scarlet and Gray never recovered.
Now, for that vast majority of players, minus a select few who make playing basketball professionally a career, the final defeat is a screeching halt for a major chapter of life.
Greene knows about screeching halts. Despite making it into the starting five as a late recruited freshman and being a quiet leader in her years in Columbus, Greene is most known, basketball-wise, as a player whose career was hampered by severe injuries. In both 2021 and 2022, Greene tore her ACL and required a combined two years of recovery before her final year and a half as a Buckeye.
Those final two seasons saw Greene move into a role player for Ohio State. She played behind fellow 2019 freshman recruit Jacy Sheldon and freshman star Jaloni Cambridge.
So, after that final loss for any player, what’s next? Many move into the “real world,” find jobs and become “productive members of society,” while some try anyway to stay in the sport, and who can blame them? Spend all of your formative years around a game as fun as basketball, and compare it to that “real world,” and the better option is clear.
For Greene, it was not the sport that dictated what she did next, but the injuries. More specifically, the life passion that came from those years of recovery. Five days after that loss, Greene was back in front of the public but not on a basketball court. Greene stepped onto the art studio floor and showed elements of herself that no fan saw in six years at Ohio State.
Flower Girl or I am not broken
Flower Girl or I am not broken by Madison Greene
Flower Girl or I am not broken art piece description, by Madison Greene.
“Flower Girl or I am not broken” was the first piece of art that Greene created during the recovery from her first ACL tear. The piece uses paint, flowers, and real shards of glass to represent the different parts of Greene’s life. The pieces that make Madison Greene Madison Greene.
Greene wrote in the piece’s description, “if the painting was missing any of these three mediums, it would be less interesting, less special and less beautiful,” and it is not hard to see the connection between the broken glass and the trials Greene faced in her six seasons at Ohio State.
Art interpretation is up to the person interpreting the art, and this one tells a story. It also serves as a reminder that a person is not only the bad things that happen but the sum of the pain, celebrations, and beauty that make life.
During the season, Greene spoke more about this specific piece, explained this “self-portrait,” and more on Ohio State’s social media.
That work of art was one of two pieces by Greene displayed at Ohio State’s Urban Art Space from March 28 through April 5, part of their “Intersections” pop-up exhibit. Friend and former team manager Danielle Matthews urged Greene to submit her art to try and get into the exhibit. Greene followed the advice and nearly missed that she was selected.
“I didn’t know that I got accepted, because they told me through an email,” said Greene. “I had just gotten a new email that I put in there, so I did not realize that they had sent me that I got accepted.”
Fortunately for Greene, she eventually checked it and five days after her basketball career ended, stood in front of her work for friends, family, and complete strangers to see and read.
Now, for a top-tier college athlete who has played in front of crowds of tens of thousands of people, standing for a few hours does not seem too difficult, but while sports and art overlap, there is a different level of vulnerability.
“Basketball is definitely more people watching you, and it’s a bigger audience, and they really just see the outside. They see the sports side of you,” said Greene. “But with the art stuff, it just felt more personable.”
For hours, Greene stood by her paintings to talk to fellow artists, visitors of the exhibit and family, friends, and former teammates. It was an opportunity to build a community where relationships are built on art that originates from complicated, sometimes nagging, thoughts and feelings for Greene.
“I’ve always enjoyed art, like even when I was little,” said Greene. “I never was like, amazing at it or put a lot of effort into it, I would just like to have a random art class, and just do what the teacher told me to do. But I think that painting definitely kind of started the whole trajectory.”
It was no coincidence that the first piece of art she created, which was not assigned to her by a high school art teacher, featured the broken elements. While Ohio State went on to win the Big Ten Regular Season title in the 2021-22 season, Greene was with the team every moment of the surprise season, but always on the sidelines, watching practice or taking shots on her own.
Greene rehabbed her torn ACL and took time away from being able to play the game she loved. Years of spending time dribbling a ball and living on the court, gone in an instant. Art was not to fill Greene’s downtime, which is not much for a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Athlete. No, it was part of Greene’s recovery.
Not only did Greene recover twice, but she also strengthened her desire to express herself creatively through art.
“A lot of the time, it really just happens randomly,” said Greene. “I’ll get thoughts in my head like, ‘Oh, that’s a cool idea,’ or sometimes like it’s just emotions or experiences or thoughts that I continuously have something that’s been lasting in my mind for, let’s say, a couple weeks or a couple months. Then I’m like, ‘Oh, this feeling or thought means something to me.’”
One of Greene’s moments of inspiration turned into a drawing of a phoenix. The fiery bird that rises up from the ashes, often used to represent coming back to life. A situation all too familiar to Greene.
“Something that I wanted to remind myself about before I even drew it or before I came up with the idea was that I’m powerful, that I’m magical, that I’m beautiful, I’m lovable, and that I’m valuable,” said Greene.
She reminded herself of that when she made the phoenix painting that still hangs up in Greene’s room, which in and of itself serves as a constant reminder to herself about who she is as a person.
The Meaning is in the Middle
Also created in 2022, “The Meaning is in the Middle” focuses on the juxtaposition of life and death, fear and beauty. Between a face of life and another of death is a Venn diagram-like effect with the two overlapping eyes bursting into an area of stars. Instead of contrasting them, it shows how the ends of the spectrums of life are connected. Spiders and butterflies live in harmony.
The pieces submitted and on display at the exhibit center around Greene’s identity, each coming from those thoughts and feelings on her mind that she wants to get out.
Now, Greene herself is in the middle of one of the largest life transitions people will face — the end of formal education and the start of the rest of your life. For Greene, it will not be spent trying to earn a training camp contract in the WNBA or globe-hopping across Europe and Asia for opportunities to continue playing basketball. The love of the sport is there, but Greene’s rediscovery of art has taken control.
Through friends and other connections, Greene has interned for different artists and industries. From pressing wedding bouquets into pieces of art with a local floral preservation company called Story Pressed or shadowing event planners and florists, Greene is taking something that was once a tool in rehabilitation to become the focus of how she wants to live the rest of her life.
“I want to do something that I’m passionate about, something that’s creative, something that has variety, and it’s fun,” said Greene.
That does not mean that it will be easy. It’s well known that the arts do not compare to the business or tech worlds in terms of income, but for Greene, right now, it’s about the process of learning while she spends time in the middle of this life transition.
The art exhibit represents that movement. It’s the first step of a long journey for the former basketball star. Once basketball stopped looming over each part of her life, it did not come with fear to share her art. Sure, there were the usual feelings associated with losing a game of sports, especially at the highest level, but the usually quiet and reserved Greene was the exact opposite about sharing her artwork.
“It kind of lifted my spirits in a way to be able to express myself and do something that I’ve never done before. I think it’s really just going to help me figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life,” said Greene. “I’m not really sure yet, obviously, but I think having that exhibition, after the tournament, it was exciting, just to see where life could take me in the future.”
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LGHL Catch up on Ohio State news before Big Ten Media Days
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Catch up on Ohio State news before Big Ten Media Days
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Grading every Ohio State football game this season in terms of entertainment value
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land
Game of the Year: Ohio State can’t get caught sleeping at Camp Randall
Jami Jurich, Land-Grant Holy Land
Game of the Year: Oct. 11 is the top Saturday of the college football regular season
Brett Ludwiczak, Land-Grant Holy Land
Buckeye fans are torn on what the most important game of OSU’s season will be
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land
Ohio State lands four-star WR, misses on five-star RB
Gene Ross, Land-Grant Holy Land
Terrelle Pryor won’t get backpay from OSU after lawsuit dismissed
Jordan Laird, The Columbus Dispatch
Lessons learned from Buckeyes at Cardale Jones Charity Softball game
Austin Ward, Lettermen Row
Three things we won’t learn from Buckeyes at Big Ten Media Days
Spencer Holbrook, Lettermen Row
One big question for each Buckeyes player at Big Ten Media Days
Spencer Holbrook, Lettermen Row
OSU AD Ross Bjork discusses football title, Ryan Day and more in Q&A
Joey Kaufman and Bill Rabinowitz, The Columbus Dispatch
Julian Sayin and Lincoln Kienholz Embracing Competition, Offseason Growth As Ohio State’s Starting Quarterback Battle Continues
Dan Hope, Eleven Warriors
Yes, Brian Hartline has already offered this 2028 wide receiver:
How Julian Sayin can thrive in year one at Ohio State
Noah Weiskopf, Buckeye Huddle
Beau Atkinson Transferred to Ohio State Because He “Wanted to Play at the Highest Level That I Could”
Dan Hope, Eleven Warriors
Land-Grant Holy Land is looking to hire new contributors ahead of football season
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land
Top-Ranked Carmen’s Crew Begins The Basketball Tournament Title Defense With 78-67 Win Over No. 8 GoTime Green Machine
Jack Emerson, Eleven Warriors
Ohio State starts 2026 class commitments with guard Atlee Vanesko
Thomas Costello, Land-Grant Holy Land
You’re Nuts: What is Ohio State’s toughest non-conference game?
Justin Golba and Connor Lemons, Land-Grant Holy Land
Wright State transfer Brandon Noel working hard on transition to Ohio State
Steve Helwagen, Bucknuts
Ohio State Transfer Guard Gabe Cupps Ready to Flash Full Potential Off Season-Ending Injury
Andy Anders, Eleven Warriors
Softball: Buckeyes Add Karli Spaid to Coaching Staff
Ohio State Athletics
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All the Buckeye news thats fit to re-print.
Look, we get it. Your days are busy and you don’t have time to read all of the stories and tweets from the three dozen websites dedicated to covering Ohio State athletics, or the 237 Buckeye beat writers churning out hot takes and #content on a daily basis. But that’s ok, that’s what your friends at Land-Grant Holy Land are here for.
Monday through Friday, we’ll be collecting all of the articles, tweets, features, interviews, videos, podcasts, memes, photos, and whatever else we stumble across on the interwebz and putting them in our daily “Why is this News?” article. That way, you’ll have a one-stop shop for all of the most important Buckeye news, jokes, and analysis.
You’re welcome!
Wrapping Up Game of the Year Week
Grading every Ohio State football game this season in terms of entertainment value
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land
Game of the Year: Ohio State can’t get caught sleeping at Camp Randall
Jami Jurich, Land-Grant Holy Land
Game of the Year: Oct. 11 is the top Saturday of the college football regular season
Brett Ludwiczak, Land-Grant Holy Land
Buckeye fans are torn on what the most important game of OSU’s season will be
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land
On the Gridiron
Ohio State lands four-star WR, misses on five-star RB
Gene Ross, Land-Grant Holy Land
Terrelle Pryor won’t get backpay from OSU after lawsuit dismissed
Jordan Laird, The Columbus Dispatch
Lessons learned from Buckeyes at Cardale Jones Charity Softball game
Austin Ward, Lettermen Row
Three things we won’t learn from Buckeyes at Big Ten Media Days
Spencer Holbrook, Lettermen Row
One big question for each Buckeyes player at Big Ten Media Days
Spencer Holbrook, Lettermen Row
OSU AD Ross Bjork discusses football title, Ryan Day and more in Q&A
Joey Kaufman and Bill Rabinowitz, The Columbus Dispatch
Julian Sayin and Lincoln Kienholz Embracing Competition, Offseason Growth As Ohio State’s Starting Quarterback Battle Continues
Dan Hope, Eleven Warriors
Yes, Brian Hartline has already offered this 2028 wide receiver:
How Julian Sayin can thrive in year one at Ohio State
Noah Weiskopf, Buckeye Huddle
Beau Atkinson Transferred to Ohio State Because He “Wanted to Play at the Highest Level That I Could”
Dan Hope, Eleven Warriors
Land-Grant Holy Land is looking to hire new contributors ahead of football season
Matt Tamanini, Land-Grant Holy Land
On the Hardwood
Top-Ranked Carmen’s Crew Begins The Basketball Tournament Title Defense With 78-67 Win Over No. 8 GoTime Green Machine
Jack Emerson, Eleven Warriors
Ohio State starts 2026 class commitments with guard Atlee Vanesko
Thomas Costello, Land-Grant Holy Land
You’re Nuts: What is Ohio State’s toughest non-conference game?
Justin Golba and Connor Lemons, Land-Grant Holy Land
Wright State transfer Brandon Noel working hard on transition to Ohio State
Steve Helwagen, Bucknuts
Ohio State Transfer Guard Gabe Cupps Ready to Flash Full Potential Off Season-Ending Injury
Andy Anders, Eleven Warriors
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Softball: Buckeyes Add Karli Spaid to Coaching Staff
Ohio State Athletics
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