Ryan Patrick Day is an American football coach and former college football player. He is the 24th and current head football coach at Ohio State University, a position he has held since 2019. The day was also the acting head coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes for the first three games of the 2018 season.
Day was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, and met his wife, Christina Ourania Spirou, whom he calls Nina when they played together on the same tee ball team when she was seven and he was six.
Married in June 2005, the Days have three children, Ourania, Grace, and Ryan Jr.
Meet Christiana Spirou Day
Day was raised by a single mother, Lisa Day, following the death of his father, Raymond Day, on January 20, 1988, of suicide.
On June 5, 2019, Day admitted publicly, for the first time, his father was a victim of suicide, when he was nine years old, with two younger brothers, Chris, seven, and Tim, five