Bucknell University Athletics
Jennifer Dervarics Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
4/28/2009 8:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
April 28, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Jennifer Dervarics (Emmaus, Pa./Emmaus), a member of the Bison women's soccer team, received a special award at the University's annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held at the Elaine Langone Center on Tuesday, April 28.
Dervarics won the Bison Club Award, presented to senior athletes “who best exemplify the winning spirit of the University's athletic program.” Dervarics shared the award with Kerry Boyle of the men's track and field team, who was the male selection.
In addition to Dervarics, several other student-athletes were honored at the banquet, including the winners of the Christy Mathewson Award, given to the most outstanding athletes in the senior class.
Dervarics will graduate with a host of awards for her prowess on the field. The senior co-captain was twice named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year and was a two-time SoccerBuzz All-Region selection. In her final season in the Orange & Blue, Dervarics became one of seven Bison women's soccer players to be named to the All-Patriot League Team three times.
The forward etched her names in the Bucknell record books as well, working her way to third in career goals (36), assists (19) and points (91). She led the squad with 12 goals and 30 points during her senior season.
As a freshman, Dervarics helped the team to a Patriot League Tournament Championship, and in the years that followed, she led the Bison to a pair of regular-season titles.
Dervarics was equally successful off the field. A mathematics major with 3.31 grade-point average, she was named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and the 2008 NSCAA/adidas Scholar All-East Region First Team.
Bucknell is a highly selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 3,500 undergraduate students. Bucknell competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Patriot League and has full membership along with American, Army, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy. Bucknell has won the Presidents' Cup, signifying the Patriot League's all-sports champion, in 14 of 18 years, including 10 of the last 11.
Recently, 17 Bison programs – the seventh-most in Division I – earned NCAA Public Recognition for having Academic Performance Rates in the top 10 percent nationally in their respective sport. In addition, Bucknell ranks fifth in Division I in the total number of CoSIDA Academic All-America selections, with 116 national Academic All-Americans since 1970.
