Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Men's Soccer Places Three on ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team
10/30/2008 8:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Oct. 30, 2008
LEWISBURG, Pa. - The 11-man ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II men's soccer team features three Bucknell student-athletes, as seniors Chris Hennings (West Chester, Pa./Henderson) and Jason Soto (Hackettstown, N.J./Morris Catholic) and junior co-captain Patrick Selwood (Darnestown, Md./The Heights School) were all selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
A senior academically, Hennings is in his third season with the Bison men's soccer program after an injury wiped out his freshman season. A history major with mathematics and Spanish minors, Hennings boasts a stellar 3.66 cumulative grade-point average and has an impressive bio both on and off the field.
Hennings is enjoying a career year on the pitch in 2008. He currently leads the Patriot League in both goals (7) and points (18) after entering the season with just four career points. In the second game of the season, Hennings tied Bucknell and Patriot League records with a four-goal game in a 5-4 win at Canisius. He also scored a big goal in the team's 2-0 victory at Penn State and had two tallies in a 3-0 win over Cornell. Of his four assists this season, two have come on overtime goals against league foes Army and Navy.
Hennings is working toward a teaching certificate, and at Bucknell has been a research assistant in the history department and a teaching assistant for the freshman "Transition to College" course. He is part of the Bucknell Tutoring Program, where he tutors two "at-risk" students for 90 minutes each week, and he also spends time tutoring at a local high school. A member of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society, Hennings is a chapter member of the Pennsylvania State Education Society (PSEA). He is a men's soccer Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative and was one of two students named to the Bucknell Committee on Athletics governance body. Hennings is a four-time Dean's List member and a Patriot League Academic Honor Roll student.
Soto has played in all 17 games, starting 15, and has been a key part of the team's defense and midfield. He has one assist on the season, that coming in the Niagara game. A Dean's List student every semester at Bucknell, he is an economics major with a philosophy minor and carries a 3.68 GPA. A Larison Academic Scholarship awardee, Soto interned in the Corporate Treasury Division at Goldman Sachs last summer and was a finalist for the company's Scholarship for Excellence and Goldman Sachs Scholar Alumni award.
Soto is one of 12 Bucknell seniors in Omicron Delta Kappa, a national honorary leadership society based on superior scholarship, leadership, and exemplary character that is voted on by faculty and administration. He was selected as one of 160 from nationwide pool of candidates for Management Leadership For Tomorrow, a year-long, intensive career development program. Soto is also part of the Campus Ambassadors Program, a member of the Bucknell Investment Club, part of the economics department faculty recruitment board and a teaching assistant for the International Economic Theory class.
One of the anchors of the Bison defense, Selwood was elected team tri-captain as a junior in 2008. He has started all 17 games in the back and was named the Tournament MVP of the Days Inn Classic after leading Bucknell to the team title. A men's soccer SAAC representative along with Hennings, Selwood is a philosophy and religion major with a 3.73 GPA.
Off the field Selwood is involved with the Catholic Campus Ministry and was the student founder of the St. Sebastian Society, an organization for Catholic student-athletes. The four-time Dean's List member and Patriot League Academic Honor Roll member has also interned in two law offices.
The Bison women's soccer team also fared well in the All-District balloting, as Chelsea Brinkman, Jennifer Dervarics and Lauren Stoller were all named to the 11-player women's team.
In order to be considered for Academic All-America honors, a candidate must be at least a sophomore with a minimum 3.30 cumulative GPA and be a starter or significant reserve on his/her team. Bucknell ranks fifth among all Division I institutions with 116 national Academic All-Americans.
The Bucknell men's soccer team is 7-7-3 on the season, and the Bison have a big Patriot League game coming up on Saturday at Lehigh at 7 p.m.
