Bucknell University Athletics
Joe Susan Selected to High School's Wall of Fame
1/2/2015 10:09:00 AM | Football
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell fifth-year head football coach Joe Susan was recently selected to the South River High School Wall of Fame. The award ceremony took place last month in Susan's hometown of South River, New Jersey, and he was recognized by his alma mater along with fellow honoree Anthony Agnone.
A 1973 graduate of South River High School, Susan is in the midst of a long and fruitful football coaching career. He has spent the last five years on the Bison sideline, leading Bucknell to plenty of success, including a strong 8-3, 4-2 PL mark this past season. It was just the fifth time in school history a Bison squad won as many as eight games and Bucknell finished alone in second place in the Patriot League standings for the first time since 1997.
The 2014 Patriot League Coach of the Year, Susan was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson FCS Coach of the Year Award this past season.
Susan has overseen above-.500 records in three of the last four campaigns and his 24 victories place him 11th on Bucknell's career victories list.
“I consider it an honor and am humbled to be given this award by my high school,” commented Susan. “The town of South River has a great tradition of leadership. I am fortunate to be part of the group of people who have been honored. It is an assembly of men and women who have outstanding accomplishments in a variety of areas.
“To be honored by one's hometown is special because we all have fond memories of the places we were raised. I work each day to justify the effort the people who are South River put into pointing me in the right direction.”
Following his high school graduation, Susan attended Delaware and was a member of two Lambert Cup-winning teams as he helped the Blue Hens to the Division II national championship game as an award-winning offensive lineman.
Susan immediately got into coaching as a student assistant at Delaware in 1977. He went on to be an assistant coach at Gettysburg (1979), Bucknell (1981-90), Princeton (1991-99) and Rutgers (2001-09) before returning to Lewisburg in the winter of 2010. Susan's first head coaching opportunity resulted in tremendous success when he led Davidson to a 10-0 mark in 2000.
