Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame
Deardorff, Matt A.
Matt A. Deardorff
- Induction:
- 2019
- Class:
- 1992
Matt Deardorff is another in a long line of terrific distance runners to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Deardorff was a member of both the Patriot League All-Decade Team and 25th Anniversary Team in cross country, where he was the league’s individual champion in 1991 and runner-up in 1990. As a senior he placed 60th at the NCAA Cross Country Championship and 20th at the IC4A Championships.
Deardorff helped lead the Bison to four straight conference titles and two NCAA team appearances, highlighted by a 13th-place finish in 1991. In dual-meet action, the Bison were 33-2 during his career.
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On the track, Deardorff was a two-time Patriot League champion in the outdoor 5,000-meter run, and he also captured the 3,000 meters indoors in 1991. He collected a pair of bronze medals at the IC4A Championships, one in the 5,000 and one in the 10,000, and he also claimed a pair of conference titles in the distance medley relay in 1989 and 1990 when the Bison competed in the East Coast Conference. Deardorff recorded top-10 times in school history in the 10K (29:44.14) and indoor 5K (14:27.87).
Deardorff was part of teams that won four straight indoor league titles bridging the team's transition from the East Coast Conference to the Patriot League.Â
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Deardorff's running feats only tell part of the story of what he accomplished at Bucknell. As a biology and chemistry double major with a 3.9 GPA, he received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and was one of three national finalists for the prestigious Walter Byers Scholarship. He graduated summa cum laude and received the school’s highest honor – the President’s Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement -- along with a number of other prizes and awards for your outstanding work in the classroom. He was a First Team Academic All-American in both 1991 and 1992.
After graduation from Bucknell, Deardorff went to UPenn Medical School and became a successful physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Deardorff helped lead the Bison to four straight conference titles and two NCAA team appearances, highlighted by a 13th-place finish in 1991. In dual-meet action, the Bison were 33-2 during his career.
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On the track, Deardorff was a two-time Patriot League champion in the outdoor 5,000-meter run, and he also captured the 3,000 meters indoors in 1991. He collected a pair of bronze medals at the IC4A Championships, one in the 5,000 and one in the 10,000, and he also claimed a pair of conference titles in the distance medley relay in 1989 and 1990 when the Bison competed in the East Coast Conference. Deardorff recorded top-10 times in school history in the 10K (29:44.14) and indoor 5K (14:27.87).
Deardorff was part of teams that won four straight indoor league titles bridging the team's transition from the East Coast Conference to the Patriot League.Â
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Deardorff's running feats only tell part of the story of what he accomplished at Bucknell. As a biology and chemistry double major with a 3.9 GPA, he received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and was one of three national finalists for the prestigious Walter Byers Scholarship. He graduated summa cum laude and received the school’s highest honor – the President’s Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement -- along with a number of other prizes and awards for your outstanding work in the classroom. He was a First Team Academic All-American in both 1991 and 1992.
After graduation from Bucknell, Deardorff went to UPenn Medical School and became a successful physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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