Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Dervarics Named Patriot League Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Year
11/8/2007 7:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Nov. 8, 2007
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell junior Jennifer Dervarics (Emmaus, Pa./Emmaus) has been named the Patriot League Women's Soccer Offensive Player of the Year, it was announced at the league championship banquet on Thursday evening. Dervarics joins Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame member Lisa Gibbons '95 as the only two individuals in the history of the program to earn the honor as Gibbons was the recipient of the award in 1993.
Dervarics finished the regular season with career-high totals in every offensive category, leading the Orange and Blue with 11 goals and six assists for 28 points, while ranking second in the Patriot League in points per game (1.56) and third in points, goals, goals per game (0.61), assists and assists per game (0.33). Her single season points total is tied for seventh in Bison history, while she is tied for ninth all-time in goals and seventh in assists.
In league contests, Dervarics recorded 12 points on five goals and two assists, which included a seven-point performance at Holy Cross where she netted her first career hat trick and dished an assist, to post the third-highest single game points total in program history. To help Bucknell to its first-ever road victory over Colgate on Oct. 20, Dervarics recorded two goals, including the game-winner. Then, in the final game of the regular season at American, Dervarics assisted on the lone tally for the Orange and Blue in the 1-1 draw that secured the team's second consecutive regular season title.
Dervarics saw time in net this season, as well, as she was called into duty as the emergency goalkeeper for the Bison after sophomore Kathryn Sutton (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville Area), the squad's usual netminder, was issued a red card in the match against Lehigh. Dervarics played the remaining 22:35 of that contest, letting up only an own goal, and started the following Sunday against Lafayette. Versus the Leopards, Dervarics made four saves and picked up the shutout victory that clinched a postseason berth for the Orange and Blue.
During non-conference play, Dervarics posted the second-highest single-game assist total in program history with three in a 5-2 win over Saint Francis, Pa., on Sept. 12. The only other Bison to ever notch three or more assists in a match was Gibbons as she totaled three against Scranton in 1994 and set the Bucknell record in the same season with four against Lycoming.
A First Team All-Patriot League selection this season after collecting second-team honors as a junior, Dervarics has been recognized as the Damon's Bison Athlete of the Week three times so far this fall and was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 22.
Currently with 59 career points, Dervarics ranks sixth in the Bucknell record book in that category and is seventh in career goals and career assists, with 23 and 13, respectively.
The Bison next face No.-4 seed Army in a Patriot League semifinal match that is slated for Friday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. on Varsity Soccer Field.
