Amy M. Mantush Filanowski (2024) - Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame

Amy M. Mantush Filanowski

Induction:
2024
Class:
2010

Amy Mantush Filanowski was one of the most prolific and versatile athletes in the history of the Bison women’s track and field program. She won seven individual gold medals and four silver medals at Patriot League Championships, she was a two-time Patriot League Field Athlete of the Meet, and as one of the league’s top point-producers, she helped the Bison claim six team championships and two runner-up finishes in her career.

Mantush Filanowski won Patriot League outdoor titles in the high jump in 2007, the high jump and triple jump in 2009, and the long jump in 2010. She added indoor gold medals in the high jump in 2007, setting the Patriot League record in the process, and both the high jump and pentathlon in 2010. She was named the Patriot League Field Athlete of the Meet following the 2009 Outdoor Championships and the 2010 Indoor Championships.

Mantush Filanowski’s top indoor high jump of 5’8” during her freshman year broke a 21-year-old school record and held up all the way to 2024 when it was broken by Karen Hull. Mantush Filanowski’s school-record 5’7” outdoor high jump held up for 12 years. She graduated No. 2 all-time in the outdoor triple jump (39’1”), behind only Hall-of-Famer Jill Wise, and she also graduated ranked fifth all-time in the heptathlon and second in the pentathlon.

A two-year team captain and a member of the Patriot League 25th Anniversary Team, she has remained in collegiate track and field as a coach. After stints at Allegheny and Misericordia, she returned to her alma mater for a three-year term as assistant coach under Kevin Donner from 2015-18. She later moved on to Kutztown (2018-22) and recently wrapped up her second year as an assistant at Muhlenberg. Following the retirement of longtime head coach Brad Hackett at the conclusion of the 2023-24 season, Mantush Filanowski was named as his successor.

This will not be Mantush Filanowski’s first Hall of Fame nod, as she was named to the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame in 2022 and the Hazleton Area Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.