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Kelly Hoffman Receives Senior Athletic Award
April 29, 2008
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior Kelly Hoffman (Boyertown, Pa./Oley Valley), a two-time All-Patriot League honoree and 2007 Patriot League Field Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year, received a special award at the University's annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held in Sojka Pavilion on April 29. Hoffman won the Alvin F. Jackson Jr. Memorial Scholar Athlete Award, presented to senior athletes "for outstanding academic and athletic achievement, and future promise as Bucknell alumni." Hoffman shared the award with David Mante of the men's track and field team. In addition to Hoffman and Mante, 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. Rowing All-American Katherine Brewster-Duffy, won the women's Mathewson Award, while four-time All-Patriot League honoree Jason Buursma of the baseball team won the men's Mathewson Award. A double major in English and psychology, Hoffman holds a 3.94 cumulative GPA and was named to both the NFCHA All-Academic squad and the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Hoffman is also an active member of Bucknell's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, participating in activities such as traveling to a local elementary school earlier this year to teach children about sports. As a senior in 2007, Hoffman earned a second-team all-league selection for the second time in her career. As a co-captain, she started in all 16 games for the Bison. She tallied 17 points with seven goals and three assists. Two of Hoffman's goals were game-winners, against Kent State (W, 3-2, OT) on Aug. 25, and against Georgetown (W, 3-2, OT) on Sept. 22. She also had the assist for the game-winning goal against Towson (W, 4-3) on Sept. 4.
As a junior in 2006, Hoffman collected second-team all-league honors after starting in all 17 games for the Bison. She recorded six points with two goals and two assists. She notched the game-winning goal against Saint Francis (Pa.) (W, 10-2) on Aug. 29 and assisted the game-winning goal against Robert Morris (W, 5-0) on Aug. 26.
Bucknell is a highly-selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 3,400 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 13 of 17 years, including nine of the last 10. 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 114 national Academic All-Americans since 1970. |
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