Bucknell University Athletics
Hathaway Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
4/28/2009 8:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
April 28, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Megan Hathaway (North Tonawanda, N.Y./Niagara Wheatfield), one of Bucknell's short to middle distance sprinters, received a special award at the University's annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held in Terrace Room on Tuesday, April 28.
Hathaway won the Robert A. Latour Service Award, presented to senior athletes “for extraordinary service to Bucknell and local communities.” Hathaway shared the award with Kevin Mullen of the football team, who was the male selection.
Hathaway capped off her senior indoor season with a record-setting victory in the 500-meter dash at the Patriot League Championships for the second year in a row. With her 1 minute, 14.25 second performance, Hathaway led the Bison to a second-place finish behind Navy. The Bison lost by only nine points, tallying 142 to Navy's 151. She was also a part of the Bison's 4x400 relay team that won with a time of 3:53.62.
In the Bucknell track and field history books, Hathaway has 10 marks that land her on the top-10 lists, including her school record in the indoor 500 and third place on the indoor 800 list, as well as being a member of eight relay teams.
Hathaway is a sociology major and is a member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
The North Tonawanda, N.Y., native has been doing her student teaching this spring semester and also helped organize the Running of the Bison 5K race on March 21, where all the proceeds went to the Northumberland and Synder Counties Special Olympics programs.
Bucknell is a highly-selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of 3,583 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 fifth-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 117 national Academic All-Americans since 1970.
