Rob Arent (2025) - Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame

Rob Arent

Induction:
2025
Class:
2012

ROB ARENT ’12 walked on to the Bison track and field team after starring in soccer at New Providence High School in New Jersey. With only one year of track experience coming into college, Arent went on to become a nine-time Patriot League Champion, two-time Patriot League Outdoor Track Athlete of the Meet, and the Christy Mathewson Award winner as the top athlete in his class. He was a leading point-scorer on Bison teams that won three straight PL outdoor championships, ending a 19-year drought, as well as the 2012 indoor title.

Arent swept the 400-meter dash and 400-meter hurdles in both 2010 and 2011, and in 2012 he won gold in both the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles. Perhaps the highlight of his career was his incredible performance at the 2010 Patriot League Outdoor Championships at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. In a span of four hours, Arent won the bronze medal in the 110 hurdles, he won the open 400 in a photo finish, he ran away with the gold medal in the 400 hurdles, and he anchored the silver-medal 4x400 relay that clinched a three-point win over Army in the final event of the meet.

Arent graduated with school records in the indoor 60-meter hurdles and outdoor 110- and 400-meter hurdles, and he was an NCAA Regional qualifier in the 400 hurdles.