Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Ebright, Weaver Named to Academic All-District Women's At-Large Team
5/20/2010 8:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
May 20, 2010
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Bucknell placed two student-athletes on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Women's At-Large Team on Thursday, as senior field hockey player Sarah Ebright (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin) was named to the first team and senior rower Kim Weaver (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) was announced as a second team selection.
Ebright, who will now move on to the national Academic All-America ballot, was a Second Team All-District honoree last year. A civil and environmental engineering major with a 3.83 cumulative grade-point average, Ebright is a regular on the Bucknell Dean's List and Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. She is a four-time NFHCA All-Academic selection, an ECAC merit scholar and a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon engineering honor societies.
A team co-captain as a senior, Ebright was once again one of Bucknell's top defenders. She led the team and ranked 10th in the Patriot League with seven defensive saves, and she tallied a goal and two assists from her defensive position. Ebright's first career goal was the game-winner against Georgetown. She played in all 71 career games, starting 70, and in 2009 she helped the Bison finish with a 12-7 record overall. Their 4-1 record in the Patriot League tied them for first place, their best league placing in program history.
Weaver has a 3.83 GPA in biochemistry and cell biology, and she was recently awarded the Alvin F. Jackson Jr. Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award at the Bucknell Senior Athletic Awards Banquet. Weaver is part of a Bucknell women's rowing team that has now won five consecutive Patriot League titles. She was a member of the 2007 lightweight eight that won the first and only national championship in program history at the IRA National Championship Regatta. The 2009 lightweight eight was the national runner-up.
Off the water, she is a three-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll member, a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association National Scholar-Athlete and a seven-time Dean's List member. Weaver was the lead author on a paper detailing the healing rates of wing punch wounds in little brown bats, and she has been accepted to medical school at Marshall University.
In order to be eligible for Academic All-America recognition, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore, maintain a minimum 3.30 cumulative GPA and be a starter or key reserve on his/her team. Bucknell has had 118 national Academic All-Americans since 1970, the fifth-highest total among all Division I institutions.
