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Gillian Nordquist Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
April 28, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Gillian Nordquist (Clarkston, Mich./Clarkston), a team captain on the cross country and track and field teams, received a special award at the University’s annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held in Terrace Room on Tuesday, April 28. Nordquist 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”. Nordquist shared the award with Kevin MacLeod of the men’s track and field and cross country teams, who was the male selection. With a long line of athletic and academic accomplishments, Nordquist was named the 2007 Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was also an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Selection for cross country. Nordquist, an English and Spanish major, is a member of the Patriot League’s Academic Honor Roll. This spring, in just Bucknell’s second meet, Nordquist qualified for the ECAC meet with her 10,000-meter time of 37 minutes, 30.69 seconds at the William and Mary Colonial Relays. Nordquist’s mark was also a personal best. The Clarkston, Mich., native placed 18th at the Patriot League Cross Country Championships this past fall, covering the 6,000-meter distance in 22:14.1, leading the Bison to a second-place finish. 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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