Dorothy "Bugs" Harvey Lloyd (2007) - Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame

Dorothy "Bugs" Harvey Lloyd

Induction:
2007
Class:
1953

Sport: Field Hockey
Dorothy "Bugs" Harvey Lloyd was a four-year starter for the field hockey club, leading it to great success in Bucknell Intercollegiate Play Day tournaments. In the early 1950s college athletics at Bucknell bore little resemblance to what we see today. The Bison varsity athletics program consisted of only eight sports, and they were all played by men. It would be another 20 years before women’s sports programs gained varsity status. But that did not mean that there were no women here making their mark on the athletics fields. There most certainly were, and Harvey was one of the best woman athletes of her era. She was a four-year starter and the best player on Bucknell’s field hockey club team, which rose to great prominence at intercollegiate tournaments across the region. Even though she was clearly the most skilled player in the program, her teammates remembered her as a very unselfish player, and one of the reasons why the team achieved the success that it did was because of the manner in which she helped make her peers better players. As a senior at Bucknell, she served as president of the Women’s Athletic Association, and her fine play was recognized with a spot on the Mid-East Conference All-Star Team. Harvey also made it through several rounds of tryouts to become a finalist for the national field hockey team. A year after her passing in 2003, her friends and family made sure that her legacy would not be forgotten. The Dorothy H. Lloyd Memorial Field Hockey Endowment, established on October 3, 2004, became the very first endowed operating fund for a Bucknell women’s sports program. The office of the head field hockey coach is named in her honor, and a bronze plaque outside the office will always remind visitors of her place in Bucknell’s athletics heritage.
(Bucknell Hall of Fame Class of 2007)