Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Joshua Kaehler Garners Patriot League Men's Outdoor Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year Honors
7/11/2007 8:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field
July 11, 2007
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell's Joshua Kaehler (Hanover, Pa./South Western) has been named the Patriot League Men's Outdoor Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the league announced on Wednesday. The 2007 graduate is the 108th student-athlete in Bison history to earn the honor, which is more than twice the next-highest total of any other Patriot League school.
Kaehler posted a 3.67 grade-point average as a civil and environmental engineering major and earned selections to both the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District First Team and the USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Team this spring.
Bucknell swept the men's track and field scholar-athlete awards in 2006-07 as rising-senior David Mante (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley) was tabbed the Patriot League Men's Track and Field Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year back in April. Overall, the Bison men's track and field program has claimed 13 scholar-athlete awards since joining the Patriot League in 1991. Kaehler is the sixth member of the Orange and Blue to capture the honor in the outdoor season, and is the first Bison to do so since Ron Hess in 2000.
A two-time Patriot League javelin champion, Kaehler was named the 2007 Patriot League Male Field Athlete of the Meet after breaking both the league meet and school records. During his four years with the Bison, Kaehler earned two First Team All-Patriot League and two All-East honors, qualifying for the NCAA East Regional in both 2006 and 2007.
While at Bucknell, Kaehler was a member of the ASCE (American Society of Engineering), the CHI Epsilon civil engineering honor society, the Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership fraternity. He was named to the Patriot League Academic Honor roll and to the Dean's List every semester possible, graduating Cum Laude.
