Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame
Kirwin Anderson, Ann L.
Ann L. Kirwin Anderson
- Induction:
- 1998
- Class:
- 1987
Sport: Basketball
A four-year basketball letterwinner and co-captain of the team in her junior and senior years, Ann Kirwin Anderson was the first woman to score 1,000 points in her basketball career at Bucknell. The school record-holder at graduation with 1,343 points, she also formerly held four other school records. In 1986 she was named to the American Women's Sports Foundation All-America Second Team, the All-Northeast Region First Team and the All-East Coast Conference Second Team. Kirwin Anderson was also selected to the Academic All-America Second Team in both 1986 and 1987, was the ECC Scholar-Athlete in women's basketball in 1986, and she was co-winner of the Christy Mathewson Award as Bucknell's outstanding senior athlete. She received a Fulbright scholarship during the summer of 1986 to study in Costa Rica, and in 1987, she was awarded the Eleanor Decker Prize as Bucknell's Woman of the Year. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kirwin Anderson graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell. In 2009, she returned to serve as the keynote speaker at Bucknell’s Homecoming and its celebration of 125 years of women on campus. Kirwin Anderson, who came to Bucknell from Daniel Hand High School in Madison, Conn., later played professionally in Germany for Eintracht Frankfurt for two seasons and earned her law degree from the University of Connecticut in 1994. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.Â
(Bucknell Hall of Fame Class of 1998)
A four-year basketball letterwinner and co-captain of the team in her junior and senior years, Ann Kirwin Anderson was the first woman to score 1,000 points in her basketball career at Bucknell. The school record-holder at graduation with 1,343 points, she also formerly held four other school records. In 1986 she was named to the American Women's Sports Foundation All-America Second Team, the All-Northeast Region First Team and the All-East Coast Conference Second Team. Kirwin Anderson was also selected to the Academic All-America Second Team in both 1986 and 1987, was the ECC Scholar-Athlete in women's basketball in 1986, and she was co-winner of the Christy Mathewson Award as Bucknell's outstanding senior athlete. She received a Fulbright scholarship during the summer of 1986 to study in Costa Rica, and in 1987, she was awarded the Eleanor Decker Prize as Bucknell's Woman of the Year. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kirwin Anderson graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell. In 2009, she returned to serve as the keynote speaker at Bucknell’s Homecoming and its celebration of 125 years of women on campus. Kirwin Anderson, who came to Bucknell from Daniel Hand High School in Madison, Conn., later played professionally in Germany for Eintracht Frankfurt for two seasons and earned her law degree from the University of Connecticut in 1994. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018.Â
(Bucknell Hall of Fame Class of 1998)
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