Melanie Buczko

Melanie Buczko

Player Profile

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Butler, Pa.

High School:
Butler Area

Position:
Pole Vault/Hurdles

2005-06: [Indoors] -- Won the pole vault seven times, including at the Bucknell Heptagonal where she broke the Gerhard Fieldhouse record with a season-best mark of 13-3 1/2 and at the Patriot League Championships, where she set the meet record (12-10) to earn first team All-League honors ... named All-East after taking third in the event at the ECAC championships (12-7 1/2) ... ran the seventh-fastest time in school history (8.14) in the 60 at the Gulden Relays ... ran a season-best time in the 60 hurdles in the preliminaries at the Black Squirrel Invitational (9.13) ... posted a career-record time in the 55 hurdles in the semifinals at the Patriot League Championships (8.32), good for third in Bucknell history, and went on to take sixth in the finals (8.46) ... ran a leg of the shuttle hurdles relay squad at the Gulden Relays that set the fourth-fastest time in the Bison record books (33.23) ... received the Patriot League Scholar Athlete of the Year honors for women's indoor track and field. [Outdoors] -- Won the pole vault in five meets ... one of her wins came at the Patriot League Championship where she broke her own meet record, clearing a height of (12-11 1/2) to earn first team all-league honors ... set the Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium record (12-5 1/2) ... cleared a season-best 13-1 1/2 to take fifth at the Penn Relays in the championship division ... earned All-East honors for her second-place leap of 12-9 1/2 at the ECAC Championships ... posted a mark of 12-6 at the NCAA Eastern Regional, where she placed 12th ... ran the fifth fastest 100 hurdles time in program history at the Bison Outdoor Classic where she finished third in 14.57 ... captured fifth in the 100 hurdles with a time of 14.89 at the Patriot League Championships.

2004-05: [Indoors] -- Became just the second athlete in program history to compete at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships ... finished tied for 14th in the pole vault competition with a leap of 13-1 1/2 ... shattered her own school record in a the vault at the NYU FasTimes Invitational soaring over the bar at 13-5 1/2 ... won Bucknell's first-ever ECAC indoor gold medal with a clearance of 12-9 1/2 ... was ranked 75th in the world in the pole vault, according to IAAF, at the conclusion of the indoor season ... broke her own school record in the 60 hurdles, clocking a time of 8.89 at the Patriot League Championships ... named the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete for women's indoor track and field. [Outdoors] -- Won her first career Patriot League outdoor title with a league record leap of 12-5 1/2 ... qualified for the NCAA East Regional Championships for the second-consecutive year ... finished seventh in the regional field clearing 12-6 ... placed third at Penn Relays with a season-best clearance of 12-9 1/2 ... set a personal-best in the 100 hurdles, clocking 14.67 at the Bison Outdoor Classic.

2003-04: [Indoors] -- Won the pole vault at the Patriot League Championships (12-3 1/2) ... broke Bucknell's indoor pole vault record in her collegiate debut at the Gulden Relays (12-3 1/2) ... won the pole vault competition at the Penn State Octagonal with another record-breaking leap of 12-5 1/2 ... set the school record of 12-9 1/2 at the Bucknell Octagonal ... won the pole vault in six of the eight meets she competed ... set another school record in the 60 hurdles with a time of 8.94 ... her record-setting time was good for a Patriot League title. [Outdoors] -- Finished fourth in the pole vault at NCAA regionals with a leap of 13-1 3/4, qualifying her to compete at the NCAA Championships ... placed 11th at nationals with a jump of 13-1 1/2 ... broke the outdoor school record at Penn Relays (12-3 1/2) and continued to best her own record before setting the current record at 13-3 1/2 ... notched victories in the pole vault at the Bucknell Five-Way (11-3 3/4), Penn State Open (12-3 1/2) and ECAC Championships (13-3 1/2) ... won the 100 hurdles at the Bucknell Five-Way (14.77).

Personal: Daughter of Ron and Kathy Buczko ... graduated from Butler Area High School ... won seven varsity letters for outdoor and indoor track ... received all-state honors ... named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District Second Team in 2005-06 ... civil engineering major.

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