Bucknell University Athletics
Kevin Mullen Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
4/28/2009 8:00:00 AM | Football
April 28, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Kevin Mullen (Export, Pa./Penn-Trafford), a member of the Bison football 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.
Mullen won the Robert A. Latrour Service Award, presented to senior athletes “for extraordinary service to Bucknell and local communities.” Mullen shared the award with Megan Hathaway of women's track and field team, who was the female selection.
In addition to Mullen, 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.
The award is the second in as many weeks for Mullen who was recently inducted in the 2009 National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame Hampshire Honor Society. The honor comes as a result of excelling academically throughout his career while double majoring in international relations and religion. Mullen is also a member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and was an Academic All-District II last fall.
Considered one of the top leaders in Bison football last season, Mullen was voted the team's game-day captain a squad-best seven times. He was also awarded the Bucknell Football Leadership Award each of his four years and was the first freshman to claim the honor. Mullen is active in the ROTC and will continue his service with the military police after graduation.
Mullen's success continued on the field, seeing action in 42 career games and starting each of the Bison's 11 contests his senior season. After starting his career as a linebacker, he moved to fullback, scoring seven career touch downs and rushing for 732 yards.
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.
