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Amanda Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
April 28, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Amanda Brown (Richardson, Texas/L.V. Berkner), a member of the Bison women’s basketball team, received a special award at the University’s annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held at the Elaine Langone Center on Tuesday, April 28. Brown won the Bradley N. Tufts Award, presented to senior athletes “in recognition of exceptional athletic achievement and contribution to Bucknell athletics.” Brown shared the award with Billy Haire of the men’s lacrosse team, who was the male selection. In addition to Brown, several other student-athletes were honored at the banquet, including the winners of the Christy Mathewson Award, given to the most outstanding athletes in the senior class. Brown became the 18th Bison to score 1,000 points, finishing her career with 1,344. Known as a scoring guard, the senior co-captain ranks among Bucknell’s top 10 in four different career shooting categories. Brown has also been recognized for her ability to get teammates’ the ball, as she places fourth in career assists at 342. She also owns three Sojka Pavilion records. The Richardson, Texas native received a number of Patriot League honors throughout her four years, being named to the All-Patriot League First Team twice as well as earning selections to the All-Tournament and All-Rookie teams. As a senior, she led the league in assists (5.1/game), assist/turnover ratio (2.3) and minutes played (39.3). Named her team’s Co-MVP this year, Brown led the squad to a pair of national postseason appearances. After the Bison claimed the 2006-07 Patriot League regular season title, the team earned a bid to the 2007 WNIT. A year later, Bucknell made an improbable run through the league tournament, becoming the first No. 5 seed to win the championship and earning an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Bucknell is a highly selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 3,500 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 seventh-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 116 national Academic All-Americans since 1970. |
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