Bucknell University Athletics
MacLeod Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
4/28/2009 8:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field
April 28, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Kevin MacLeod (East Longmeadow, Mass./East Longmeadow), one of Bucknell's men's track and field team's top hurdlers, 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.
MacLeod won the Alvin F. Jackson, Jr. Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award, presented to senior athletes “for outstanding academic and athletic achievement and future promise as Bucknell alumni”. MacLeod shared the award with Gillian Norquist of the women's track and field and cross country teams, who was the female selection.
MacLeod will go down in Bucknell track and field history as one of its premier hurdlers and sprinters, as he is the school record holder in 400-meter hurdles outdoors (51.87 seconds) and three relay teams indoors. He is present on Bucknell's all-time performance lists a total of 16 times.
The East Longmeadow, Mass., native is a civil engineering major and member of the Patriot League Honor Roll.
As a two-time Patriot League Champion in the 400 hurdles, MacLeod has also competed at the NCAA Regional meet on two occasions.
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.
