Bucknell University Athletics
Christian Treat Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
4/30/2013 8:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
April 30, 2013
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior Christian Treat (Evergreen, Colo./Clear Creek), a member of the Bison men's swimming and diving 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 30.
Treat 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." Treat shared the award with Caroline Tolli of the women's track and field and cross country teams, who was the female selection.
In addition to Treat, 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.
Treat made history in 2012-13 when he was named the Patriot League Men's Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year for a third time. He is the first person to win the award three times and is just the 14th student-athlete in the history of the Patriot League to earn three Scholar-Athlete of the Year citations in one sport. Treat is also a three-time member of the Academic All-Patriot League Team and Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
A four-time All-Patriot League selection, including a first-team choice each of the last two years, Treat posted three individual top-five showings at February's Patriot League Championships. He finished fourth in the 200 IM and 100 breast and fifth in the 200 breast and was the second-highest non-Navy point-scorer behind teammate Mike Nicholson. Treat broke the school record in the 100 breast during the prelims of that event.
Treat finished his Patriot League career having scored in 12 individual events and was the No. 3 career point scorer in the Class of 2013.
Away from the pool Treat is an animal behavior major with a 3.67 cumulative grade-point average who has been on the Dean's List six times. The scholarship and social chair of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Treat has been president of Bucknell's animal behavior club, a student-athlete leader in the Bison Leadership Academy and a student-athlete speaker at a Prospective Student Forum. He has spent plenty of time volunteering, serving as a swim instructor for the Lewisburg Community Outreach program, helping to clean up a local state park and with the Special Olympics. Treat is also the Bucknell Athletics Senior Gift Drive co-chair and is a teacher's assistant in Bucknell's geography department.
A three-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll member, Treat has also participated in Swim Across America to raise money for cancer research and in an AIDS walk/run. He has also served as Key Club president and won the Kiwanis Key Leader Service Award.
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 22 years, including 13 of the last 15.
