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    Snyder earns third straight Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year honor

    Kyle Snyder at Final X (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com)

    Kyle Snyder has just made a bit more history in his incredible wrestling career.

    The 2018 NCAA heavyweight champ has been selected as 2017-18 Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year, the Columbus-based school announced Monday.

    As Ohio State Wrestling tweeted midday Monday, Snyder is the first Buckeye wrestler to have been named a three-time athlete of the year… the fifth wrestler in a row to receive the honor… and the sixth in a decade, joining two-time honoree Logan Stieber (2014, 2015) and J. Jaggers in 2009.


    In addition to Snyder being named Male Athlete of the Year for this past season, Kelsey Mitchell of the women's basketball team was named 2017-18 Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year.

    With this Ohio State honor, both Mitchell and Snyder are now eligible for consideration for Big Ten Athlete of the Year for 2017-18 which will be determined in the coming weeks. (Snyder earned the Big Ten Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year in 2017.)

    Snyder's on-the-mat accomplishments are impressive by any measure. He is the only American to ever finish college as a three-time NCAA Division I wrestling champion (2016-2018), an Olympic gold medalist (men's freestyle at the 2016 Rio Games) and two-time world champion. Snyder's leadership helped guide the Buckeyes to Big Ten titles in three of his four seasons (including 2018) and as 2015 NCAA team champions.

    Snyder can add the 2017-18 Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year honor to a trophy case already crowded with honors. In addition to his two previous Male Athlete of the Year awards in 2016 and 2017, Snyder has earned the Big Ten Medal of Honor award, the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) Sullivan Award, and a nomination to the President's Sports Council, among other honors.

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