When 2025 Ohio State University graduate Emily Hayward started her college career during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was looking for a way to get involved on campus. She always knew she liked sports, ...

realized Ohio State needed a mascot—and what better than a nut from the state tree? Though we now expect to see Brutus at every football game, he was initially snuck onto the field as a nameless ...

In the nearly 60 years since Brutus Buckeye first debuted as Ohio State University's mascot, only four women have portrayed the famous anthropomorphic nut. Emily Hayward, an Ohio State biomedical ...