COLUMBUS – Ohio State football coach Ryan Day and his wife, Nina, are making a $1 million gift to the university to fund research and services that promote mental health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine.
The Nina and Ryan Day Resilience Fund will be housed in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.
The Days have long been advocates of care and open discussions about mental health, a cause which cause is personal to Ryan Day, whose father died of suicide when he was 8 years old.
Day began speaking out in 2018 after a recruiting trip to a high school that had experienced multiple recent student suicides.
He maintains a “Circle of Care” for athletes in the OSU football program with two full-time psychologists, two athletic counselors and a part-time psychiatrist on staff.