At just 29 years old, Brian Oilar will be the youngest head coach in the Ohio Athletic Conference this basketball season. We sit down with him and talk about Otterbein men's basketball's upcoming season.
43-year-old Brent Rastetter is still trying to find his way around campus after only a few days on the job.
The first college football game played on European soil occurred in 1992 and the teams playing were not from the Big 10 or the SEC, but rather it was two teams from the Ohio Athletic Conference.
When Don Carlos was drafted in the eighth round of the 1967 NBA draft out of Otterbein College, the world’s premier basketball league looked much different then it does today.
There will be a lot of questions about this fall’s football team and not many, or any, have been answered in spring drills. At the Division III level spring drills look very different than at the Division I ranks. There are no helmets, no pads, no hitting, and no annual spring game. So how much can a football coach tell about his team heading into the summer break?
On Tuesday of this week the Otterbein athletic department announced the University’s new head basketball coach. 29-year old Brian Oilar was selected out of more than 250 applicants.
While the 124th season of Otterbein Cardinal baseball officially does not start till the end of this month, preparations got under way last Sunday with the season’s first mandatory practice.
The Otterbein football team (4-2, 4-1) will look to extend both their current winning streak and record over the Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets (4-2, 3-2) to three games in a row.
Otterbein, leading by a touchdown at the halftime break, played a game of two completely different halves. The Cardinals offense stalled, getting shut out in the second half, while Heidelberg scored three touchdowns and a field goal.
Otterbein football (2-1, 2-0) will try to win their third game in a row and bring back to Westerville the Rhine River Rivalry this Saturday as they take on the #22 Heidelberg Student Princes (2-1, 1-1).This will be the 23th meeting between the two schools in the Rhine River Rivalry, which is played annually to commemorate the 1992 meeting between the two schools in Frankfort, Germany, the first college football game played in Europe.
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