Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame to Induct Six in 2025 Class
8/22/2025 4:14:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse, Men's Soccer, Men's Swimming and Diving, Men's Track and Field, Women's Water Polo, Bison Club
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Five standout athletes along with a pioneer in the broadcasting of Bison sporting events have been elected to the Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 47th induction class. The group will be formally inducted on Friday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Terrace Room in the Elaine Langone Center on campus, as part of Homecoming Weekend festivities.
The Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2025:
Below is more information on each member of the Hall of Fame Class of 2025.
PHIL REYNOLDS '66 was the No. 1 breaststroker on Bucknell's landmark 1964 NCAA College Division national championship team. Reynolds won individual NCAA titles in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 400 medley relay at that meet, and then in 1965 he repeated as a national champion in the 400 medley relay to help Bucknell to a third-place finish in the team standings.
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Reynolds was a College Division All-American in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes in 1964 and in the 400 medley relay in both 1964 and 1965. He dominated at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships, sweeping both breaststrokes in three straight years from 1964-66, and he was part of gold medal 400 medley relays as a sophomore and junior. Bucknell captured MAC team titles in 1964 and 1965 and was the runner-up in 1966. Reynolds graduated with the Bucknell and MAC records in both breaststroke events.
Reynolds co-captained the 1966 team with Jerry Thimme, and he joins former teammates Thimme and Jim Smigie and their coach, Bob Latour, in the Hall of Fame.
JOE TRISZCZUK '76 led the Bison men's swimming and diving team to four straight conference titles – two in the MAC and two in the East Coast Conference. He won ECC gold medals in the 200 butterfly and 400 individual medley as a senior, and he swam on 10 conference championship relays, including four straight in the 800 free relay and three straight in the 400 free relay and 400 medley relay. As a junior, he joined fellow Hall-of-Famers Bill Drake, Geoff Miller, and Roger Schwanhausser in setting school and conference records in all three relays. That foursome went on to compete at the NCAA Championships in all three events.
Swimming for Hall-of-Fame Coach Dick Russell, Triszczuk won the Dearstyne-Dorr Award as the team's most outstanding performer in 1976. The Newportville, Pa., native was part of an 11-0 team in 1973-74 and also competed on two unbeaten water polo squads in 1974 and 1975. Triszczuk's water polo prowess landed him in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" in the Nov. 25, 1975 issue. The citation recognized his 14 goals in three tournament games at Yale to lead the Bison to their first Eastern Intercollegiate Championship. Triszczuk scored 34 goals in the regular season, during which Bucknell was 12-0.
BOB RHEIN '85 was one of Bucknell's finest two-sport athletes in the 1980s, and he remains one of the men's soccer program's all-time leading scorers. Rhein played four years of soccer and then joined the lacrosse team in the spring of his junior and senior years. He earned All-East Coast Conference honors in both sports.
On the soccer pitch, Rhein earned All-ECC citations in 1983 and 1984, and as a senior in 1984 he also garnered Honorable Mention All-Region honors. Rhein scored 30 career goals and is one of only seven 30-goal scorers in program history. His 75 career points rank eighth all-time. A native of Wynnewood, Pa., Rhein scored nine goals as a sophomore and junior and 10 as a senior, and he was part of teams that went 36-22-5 during his four seasons.
Rhein joined Sid Jamieson's lacrosse team in the spring of 1984, and in his first year playing college lacrosse he was the only Bucknell player named to the All-ECC Team. Rhein led the team in assists with 13 as a midfielder, and then as a senior he was part of Bucknell's ECC co-championship team. He received the Albert E. Humphreys Award as the top multi-sport athlete in his senior class.
VALENTINA ROZAS '10 becomes the first women's water polo player inducted into the Hall of Fame. She was a three-time Honorable Mention All-American, a four-time First Team All-CWPA selection, and the 2008 CWPA Player of the Year. Rozas, who graduated with 232 goals and 99 assists, helped the Bison to their first-ever CWPA Southern Division championship and a school-record 26 wins as a senior in 2010.
Her 232 goals are second-most in team history, just five off the record, and her 331 career points rank fifth all-time. Rozas held a share of the school record with seven goals in a game, and her career-high 73 goals in 2009 are third-most in team history.
ROB ARENT '12 walked on to the Bison track and field team after starring in soccer at New Providence High School in New Jersey. With only one year of track experience coming into college, Arent went on to become a nine-time Patriot League Champion, two-time Patriot League Outdoor Track Athlete of the Meet, and the Christy Mathewson Award winner as the top athlete in his class. He was a leading point-scorer on Bison teams that won three straight PL outdoor championships, ending a 19-year drought, as well as the 2012 indoor title.
Arent swept the 400-meter dash and 400-meter hurdles in both 2010 and 2011, and in 2012 he won gold in both the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles. Perhaps the highlight of his career was his incredible performance at the 2010 Patriot League Outdoor Championships at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. In a span of four hours, Arent won the bronze medal in the 110 hurdles, he won the open 400 in a photo finish, he ran away with the gold medal in the 400 hurdles, and he anchored the silver-medal 4x400 relay that clinched a three-point win over Army in the final event of the meet.
Arent graduated with school records in the indoor 60-meter hurdles and outdoor 110- and 400-meter hurdles, and he was an NCAA Regional qualifier in the 400 hurdles.
BOB BEHLER arrived at Bucknell in the fall of 1986, fresh off a play-by-play stint with the AA Chattanooga Lookouts and only one year removed from graduation at the University of Georgia. Behler quickly parlayed what was intended to be a 10-week football play-by-play position at Bucknell into a full-time gig, where he was responsible for selling the advertising and producing the broadcasts. Over the next 13 years, he expanded his coverage to basketball and other sports and also produced from scratch a groundbreaking television show focused on Bison football and basketball, which was distributed to cable stations with millions of subscribers throughout the East Coast.
Behler was beloved throughout the local community as the "Voice of the Bison", where he called numerous memorable games, including Bucknell's first two NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament games in 1987 and 1989, and the football team's dramatic Patriot League title-clinching overtime win over Colgate in 1996. Behler's promotion of Bison Athletics stretched beyond just football and basketball. He also served as the sports information contact for the baseball team every spring, he called play-by-play for sports such as soccer and field hockey to distribute tapes to parents and families, and in 1991 he produced a first-of-its-kind radio broadcast of the inaugural Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
In addition to his play-by-play duties at Bucknell, Behler also called boxing, basketball, and team handball at the Goodwill Games, he called NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Games for CBS Radio, and he covered numerous NCAA Championships for Sportscast Productions. Behler moved on to UMass in 1999, and he has been the play-by-play voice of Boise State football and men's basketball for the last 17 years, where he has won six Idaho Sportscaster of the Year awards from the National Sports Media Association (NSMA).
The Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2025:
- Phil Reynolds '66, a standout member of Bucknell's NCAA champion men's swimming and diving team.
- Joe Triszczuk '76, another outstanding swimmer who led the Bison to four straight conference championships.
- Bob Rhein '85, an All-East Coast Conference selection in both soccer and lacrosse and one of the most prolific goal-scorers in Bucknell soccer history.
- Valentina Rozas '10, a league MVP and four-time all-conference honoree who becomes the first Hall of Fame inductee from the sport of women's water polo.
- Rob Arent '12, a highly decorated sprinter and hurdler who went from walk-on to nine-time Patriot League champion.
- Bob Behler, who served as the "Voice of the Bison" for 13 years as the play-by-play announcer for football, basketball, and other sports while establishing the broadcast position as a full-time entity within Bucknell Athletics.
Below is more information on each member of the Hall of Fame Class of 2025.
PHIL REYNOLDS '66 was the No. 1 breaststroker on Bucknell's landmark 1964 NCAA College Division national championship team. Reynolds won individual NCAA titles in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 400 medley relay at that meet, and then in 1965 he repeated as a national champion in the 400 medley relay to help Bucknell to a third-place finish in the team standings.
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Reynolds was a College Division All-American in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes in 1964 and in the 400 medley relay in both 1964 and 1965. He dominated at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships, sweeping both breaststrokes in three straight years from 1964-66, and he was part of gold medal 400 medley relays as a sophomore and junior. Bucknell captured MAC team titles in 1964 and 1965 and was the runner-up in 1966. Reynolds graduated with the Bucknell and MAC records in both breaststroke events.
Reynolds co-captained the 1966 team with Jerry Thimme, and he joins former teammates Thimme and Jim Smigie and their coach, Bob Latour, in the Hall of Fame.
JOE TRISZCZUK '76 led the Bison men's swimming and diving team to four straight conference titles – two in the MAC and two in the East Coast Conference. He won ECC gold medals in the 200 butterfly and 400 individual medley as a senior, and he swam on 10 conference championship relays, including four straight in the 800 free relay and three straight in the 400 free relay and 400 medley relay. As a junior, he joined fellow Hall-of-Famers Bill Drake, Geoff Miller, and Roger Schwanhausser in setting school and conference records in all three relays. That foursome went on to compete at the NCAA Championships in all three events.
Swimming for Hall-of-Fame Coach Dick Russell, Triszczuk won the Dearstyne-Dorr Award as the team's most outstanding performer in 1976. The Newportville, Pa., native was part of an 11-0 team in 1973-74 and also competed on two unbeaten water polo squads in 1974 and 1975. Triszczuk's water polo prowess landed him in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" in the Nov. 25, 1975 issue. The citation recognized his 14 goals in three tournament games at Yale to lead the Bison to their first Eastern Intercollegiate Championship. Triszczuk scored 34 goals in the regular season, during which Bucknell was 12-0.
BOB RHEIN '85 was one of Bucknell's finest two-sport athletes in the 1980s, and he remains one of the men's soccer program's all-time leading scorers. Rhein played four years of soccer and then joined the lacrosse team in the spring of his junior and senior years. He earned All-East Coast Conference honors in both sports.
On the soccer pitch, Rhein earned All-ECC citations in 1983 and 1984, and as a senior in 1984 he also garnered Honorable Mention All-Region honors. Rhein scored 30 career goals and is one of only seven 30-goal scorers in program history. His 75 career points rank eighth all-time. A native of Wynnewood, Pa., Rhein scored nine goals as a sophomore and junior and 10 as a senior, and he was part of teams that went 36-22-5 during his four seasons.
Rhein joined Sid Jamieson's lacrosse team in the spring of 1984, and in his first year playing college lacrosse he was the only Bucknell player named to the All-ECC Team. Rhein led the team in assists with 13 as a midfielder, and then as a senior he was part of Bucknell's ECC co-championship team. He received the Albert E. Humphreys Award as the top multi-sport athlete in his senior class.
VALENTINA ROZAS '10 becomes the first women's water polo player inducted into the Hall of Fame. She was a three-time Honorable Mention All-American, a four-time First Team All-CWPA selection, and the 2008 CWPA Player of the Year. Rozas, who graduated with 232 goals and 99 assists, helped the Bison to their first-ever CWPA Southern Division championship and a school-record 26 wins as a senior in 2010.
Her 232 goals are second-most in team history, just five off the record, and her 331 career points rank fifth all-time. Rozas held a share of the school record with seven goals in a game, and her career-high 73 goals in 2009 are third-most in team history.
ROB ARENT '12 walked on to the Bison track and field team after starring in soccer at New Providence High School in New Jersey. With only one year of track experience coming into college, Arent went on to become a nine-time Patriot League Champion, two-time Patriot League Outdoor Track Athlete of the Meet, and the Christy Mathewson Award winner as the top athlete in his class. He was a leading point-scorer on Bison teams that won three straight PL outdoor championships, ending a 19-year drought, as well as the 2012 indoor title.
Arent swept the 400-meter dash and 400-meter hurdles in both 2010 and 2011, and in 2012 he won gold in both the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles. Perhaps the highlight of his career was his incredible performance at the 2010 Patriot League Outdoor Championships at Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium. In a span of four hours, Arent won the bronze medal in the 110 hurdles, he won the open 400 in a photo finish, he ran away with the gold medal in the 400 hurdles, and he anchored the silver-medal 4x400 relay that clinched a three-point win over Army in the final event of the meet.
Arent graduated with school records in the indoor 60-meter hurdles and outdoor 110- and 400-meter hurdles, and he was an NCAA Regional qualifier in the 400 hurdles.
BOB BEHLER arrived at Bucknell in the fall of 1986, fresh off a play-by-play stint with the AA Chattanooga Lookouts and only one year removed from graduation at the University of Georgia. Behler quickly parlayed what was intended to be a 10-week football play-by-play position at Bucknell into a full-time gig, where he was responsible for selling the advertising and producing the broadcasts. Over the next 13 years, he expanded his coverage to basketball and other sports and also produced from scratch a groundbreaking television show focused on Bison football and basketball, which was distributed to cable stations with millions of subscribers throughout the East Coast.
Behler was beloved throughout the local community as the "Voice of the Bison", where he called numerous memorable games, including Bucknell's first two NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament games in 1987 and 1989, and the football team's dramatic Patriot League title-clinching overtime win over Colgate in 1996. Behler's promotion of Bison Athletics stretched beyond just football and basketball. He also served as the sports information contact for the baseball team every spring, he called play-by-play for sports such as soccer and field hockey to distribute tapes to parents and families, and in 1991 he produced a first-of-its-kind radio broadcast of the inaugural Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
In addition to his play-by-play duties at Bucknell, Behler also called boxing, basketball, and team handball at the Goodwill Games, he called NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Games for CBS Radio, and he covered numerous NCAA Championships for Sportscast Productions. Behler moved on to UMass in 1999, and he has been the play-by-play voice of Boise State football and men's basketball for the last 17 years, where he has won six Idaho Sportscaster of the Year awards from the National Sports Media Association (NSMA).
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