Rikki Harris isn’t afraid to show the world how much she loves her girlfriend.
The Ohio State Buckeyes women’s basketball player has regularly taken to Instagram over the last 18 months to share her feelings for Serenity.
“365 days of love, laughs, and making dreams come true,” Harris wrote on Instagram last October. “Love you forever and a day.”
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The two women began dating some time in October of 2022, per Harris’ tweet last summer celebrating the couple’s 10-month anniversary.
Harris has been an important player for the Buckeyes this season, coming off the bench and averaging 4.4 points per game.
She played in 29 of Ohio State’s 30 games this season.
Harris is also a star in the classroom, earning Academic All Big Ten in 2021, ’22 and ’23.
As for the Buckeyes, despite being the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten women’s basketball conference tournament this year, Ohio State lost badly to the Maryland Terrapins in the first round, 82-61. The tournament was won by the second-seed Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa is lead by record-breaking player Caitlin Clark.
Ohio State is still a top-10 team in the AP Poll and were made a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, where they will face Maine in the opening round.
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