Joe Triszczuk (2025) - Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame

Joe Triszczuk

Induction:
2025
Class:
1976

JOE TRISZCZUK ’76 led the Bison men’s swimming and diving team to four straight conference titles – two in the MAC and two in the East Coast Conference. He won ECC gold medals in the 200 butterfly and 400 individual medley as a senior, and he swam on 10 conference championship relays, including four straight in the 800 free relay and three straight in the 400 free relay and 400 medley relay. As a junior, he joined fellow Hall-of-Famers Bill Drake, Geoff Miller, and Roger Schwanhausser in setting school and conference records in all three relays. That foursome went on to compete at the NCAA Championships in all three events.

Swimming for Hall-of-Fame Coach Dick Russell, Triszczuk won the Dearstyne-Dorr Award as the team’s most outstanding performer in 1976. The Newportville, Pa., native was part of an 11-0 team in 1973-74 and also competed on two unbeaten water polo squads in 1974 and 1975. Triszczuk’s water polo prowess landed him in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” in the Nov. 25, 1975 issue. The citation recognized his 14 goals in three tournament games at Yale to lead the Bison to their first Eastern Intercollegiate Championship. Triszczuk scored 34 goals in the regular season, during which Bucknell was 12-0.