Bucknell University Athletics
Minjoo Lee Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
5/1/2012 8:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
May 1, 2012
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior Minjoo Lee (Clarkston, Mich./Clarkston), one of the top women's golfers in Bucknell 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 Tuesday.
Lee won the Bradley N. Tufts Award, presented in recognition of exceptional athletic achievement and contribution to Bucknell athletics. Lee shared the award with men's basketball standout Bryan Cohen.
In addition to Lee and Cohen, 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. Four-time All-Patriot League cross country star Stephanie Fulmer along with eight-time Patriot League track & field champion Robert Arent were this year's winners.
Lee has been Bucknell's top player for most of last four seasons. She earned All-Big South honors in 2010 after finishing in fourth place at the conference championship. Lee led the tournament after each of the first two rounds, including a 2-under 70 in the first round, the first sub-par round in school history. Lee won the 2010 Wendy's Invitational in Charleston, S.C. and was runner-up at 2011 Bucknell Invitational.
She has ranked in the top 20 in Big South scoring average all four years. In the fall of 2009 she broke the school record with a 76.9 average.
Off the course, Lee is the only player in Big South history to be recognized as the Scholar-Athlete of the Year two years in a row (2010 and 2011). She is a mechanical engineering major with a 3.77 GPA (3.87 in major). She was elected to the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society and is her class representative for the American Society of Women Engineers. She received the Charles F. White Prize for Scholar-Athletes and serves as a student grader for the Thermodynamics I & II courses.
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 17 of 21 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 121 national Academic All-Americans since 1970.
