Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Lands 19 on 2005 Patriot League Baseball Academic Honor Roll
8/9/2005 8:00:00 AM | Baseball
Aug. 9, 2005
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Nineteen members of the Bucknell baseball team were named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, the league office announced on Tuesday. The Bison represented 19 out of 45 total Honor Roll members, which also ranked first among PL baseball squads.
To be eligible for the Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must earn a 3.20 grade-point average in the spring semester and be awarded a varsity letter.
Highlighting Bucknell's list of honorees were sophomore Chris Brannan and junior Marc Cussatt who both posted perfect 4.0 GPA's in the spring semester. Brannan, an economics major from Huntington Beach, Calif., earned an All-Patriot League first team selection after a stellar freshman campaign in 2005. Cussatt is majoring in accounting and hails from Hazleton, Pa.
Elsewhere around the league, Holy Cross had 10 Honor Roll members, Lafayette six, Army four, Navy four, five and Lehigh two.
Bucknell paced the Patriot League with 199 total student-athletes earning positions on the Honor Roll.
The following are Bucknell's 2005 Patriot League Honor Roll members from the baseball team.
| Matt Belmont | Sr. | Economics | 3.78 |
| Jon Black | Jr. | Accounting | 3.91 |
| Chris Brannan | So. | Economics | 4.0 |
| Matt Capece | Jr. | Civil Engineering | 3.91 |
| Matt Curry | So. | Civil Engineering | 3.37 |
| Marc Cussatt | Jr. | Accounting | 4.0 |
| Brian Day | Sr. | Chemistry | 3.33 |
| Phil Futrick | Jr. | Management | 3.75 |
| Chris Grandizio | Jr. | English | 3.53 |
| Ryan Gryskevicz | So. | Accounting | 3.66 |
| Dustin Kapson | So. | Environmental | 3.33 |
| Nathan Mittag | So. | Economics | 3.58 |
| Tim Peacock | Sr. | Accounting | 3.85 |
| Ian Rainey | So. | History | 3.50 |
| Ed Rubbo | Fr. | Accounting | 3.50 |
| Austin Turban | Fr. | Undeclared | 3.25 |
| Kyle Walter | Jr. | Elementary Education | 3.66 |
| Evan Weiss | Sr. | Economics | 3.52 |
| Matthew Wilson | Fr. | Undeclared | 3.33 |
