Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Patrick Selwood Earns Academic All-America Honors
11/18/2009 7:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
Nov. 18, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior Patrick Selwood (Darnestown, Md./The Heights School), an All-Patriot League defender and co-captain of the league-champion Bison men's soccer team, was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team on Wednesday. Selwood, a second-team selection, becomes Bucknell's 118th Academic All-American, the fifth-highest total in Division I.
Selwood is the seventh Academic All-American from the Bucknell men's soccer program and the second in as many years. Chris Hennings earned the honor in 2008.
Last month Selwood was named to the Academic All-District First Team for the second year in a row, making him eligible for the national ballot. Senior Sean King also advanced to the national ballot, while sophomore Tommy Caso was a second team all-district pick.
A First Team All-Patriot League selection in 2009, Selwood was named the Patriot League Tournament MVP over the weekend after anchoring a Bison defense that produced two 1-0 shutouts. That gave Bucknell its second Patriot League championship in the last four years, and the Bison will be back in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday at Princeton.
Selwood has made 62 career starts, including 39 of 40 since the start of last season. He started both NCAA Tournament games as a freshman in 2006 and has been one of the Patriot League's elite defenders ever since.
Off the field, Selwood carries a 3.72 cumulative grade-point average as a double major in philosophy and religion. He is one of the team's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representatives and has served as a Eucharistic Minister with Catholic Campus Ministry. Selwood also founded the Bucknell chapter of St. Sebastian Society, an organization for Catholic student-athletes.
An NSCAA/adidas Scholar All-East pick, a six-time Dean's List honoree and a three-year member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll, Selwood has worked with two different law offices during his Bucknell days.
In order to be eligible for Academic All-America honors, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore, maintain a 3.30 or better cumulative GPA and be a starter or key reserve on his/her team.
Other national Academic All-Americans from the Bison men's soccer program include Greg Beatty in 1994 and 1995, Ryan Weber in 2001, Jonathan Hemmert in 2003 and 2004, and Hennings last year.
