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Page Kannor Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
April 28, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Page Kannor (Boise, Idaho/Boise), a member of the Bison women’s rowing team, received a special award at the University’s annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held in the Terrace Room on Tuesday, April 28. Kannor won the Christy Mathewson Award, presented to “the outstanding senior athlete.” Kannor shared the award with Mark Kawczenski of the men’s swimming & diving team, who was the male selection. Kannor earned her first career All-Patriot League selection on Tuesday, just two days after leading the Bison to their fourth consecutive Patriot League title. The first four-year member of the varsity eight in the program’s history, Kannor helped the boat to four straight Boat of the Year honors at the Patriot League Championship. An international gold medalist at the Reading Amateur Regatta in 2008, Kannor helped Bucknell to a program-best 8-1 record in 2007 and multiple titles in the ECAC Metro Championship and Murphy Cup during her career. Additionally, the Bison won the Knecht Cup and participated in the Eastern Sprints for the first time in 2008 with Kannor in the fifth seat both times. Outside of rowing, Kannor is a member of the Rooke Chapel Choir and was a keynote speaker at Bucknell’s National Girls and Women in Sports Day Luncheon. She will graduate next month with a GPA over 3.0 after majoring in animal behavior and minoring in neuropsychology. Bucknell is a highly-selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of 3,583 undergraduate students. Bucknell competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Patriot League and has full membership along with American, Army, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy. Bucknell has won the Presidents' Cup, signifying the Patriot League's all-sports champion, in 14 of 18 years, including 10 of the last 11.
Recently, 17 Bison programs – the fifth-most in Division I – earned NCAA Public Recognition for having Academic Performance Rates in the top 10 percent nationally in their respective sport. In addition, Bucknell ranks fifth in Division I in the total number of CoSIDA Academic All-America selections, with 117 national Academic All-Americans since 1970. |
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