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Ohio State is losing a top recruiting staffer during a busy month for official visits.
Erin Dunston, an assistant athletic director for football recruiting and events, has left the program, a school spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
247Sports reported Dunston, who had managed the Buckeyes’ on-campus recruiting for the last three years, was to be hired as Michigan’s director of operations.
Jul 24, 2023; Columbus, OH, USA; Erin Dunston, Director of On-Campus Recruiting, holds two arm-fulls of lanyards in her office at Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
The hire would make her Ohio State’s second coach or staff member to leave for its archrival this offseason, following running backs coach Tony Alford who departed for Ann Arbor in March. Dunston has family ties to Michigan as her sister, Jillian, is an assistant women’s basketball coach and was also a forward for the Wolverines from 2015-18.
Before joining Ohio State’s staff as a director for on-campus recruiting in 2021, Dunston had been a recruiting staffer at Kansas and Purdue and was also a graduate assistant with LSU’s operations staff.
In an interview with The Dispatch last year to discuss the expansion of his support staff, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day praised Dunston for her role in recruiting.
Day remarked she had done “an unbelievable job” in organizing official visits in June, a stretch on the calendar that can include as many as 16 visitors during the busiest weekends, he said.
“She’s become an event planner,” Day said. “That’s really what she does the whole weekend. You think of an event planner, you think of a wedding planner. The wedding planner does the wedding, and that’s it. She has the whole weekend.”
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Author : The Columbus Dispatch
Publish date : 2024-06-11 22:19:04
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