Bucknell University Athletics
Katie Jurenovich Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
5/3/2011 8:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
May 3, 2011
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior Katie Jurenovich (Warren, Ohio/Howland), an All-Big South golfer and one of the top players in program history, received a special award at the University's annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held in the Terrace Room on campus on May 3.
Jurenovich won the Edward W. Pangburn Award, presented for sportsmanship, fellowship and contribution to the University. Jurenovich shared the award with Drew Fitzgerald, a Patriot League track and field champion in the high jump and pole vault.
In addition to Jurenovich and Fitzgerald, 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. Two-time Patriot League Women's Soccer Player of the Year Christa Matlack and two-time All-America wrestler Kevin LeValley won the Mathewson Awards.
Jurenovich made history this spring by becoming the first Bucknell player to be voted by the coaches to the All-Big South Team. She was a two-time Big South Player of the Week in 2010-11, and her 78.0 scoring average led the team and ranked in the top 10 in the conference. Jurenovich, who won the Bucknell Invitational in September, nearly played her way to All-Big South honors in both 2008 and 2010, just missing all-conference honors by one place.
Her second-round 73 at The Patriot Club in 2010 was a career best, until she broke that mark with an even-par 70 this season in the final round of the Bucknell Invitational.
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 16 of 20 years.
Bucknell annually ranks among the national leaders in graduation rates. In addition, Bucknell ranks fifth in Division I in the total number of CoSIDA Academic All-America selections, with 119 national Academic All-Americans since 1970.
