2013 Hall of Fame Roster
Roster
Stephanie N. Bango
- Class:
- Redshirt
Stephanie Bango '02 is one of the most decorated track and field athletes in program history. She graduated with a whopping 21 Patriot League Championships gold medals, which still stands as the school record, and in eight career indoor and outdoor conference championship meets, she led her team to seven titles and one runner-up finish.
Of Bango's 21 conference championships, 15 came while running the grueling distance of 800 meters. She won four straight league titles in the indoor 800 meters and went 3-for-4 in the outdoor 800. In addition she was a part of 4x800-meter relay teams that captured every league race, indoors and outdoors, in her career.
Bango also won a championship in the indoor 400 meters, as well as three more in the indoor 4x400 relay and one each in the distance medley relay and the outdoor 4x400.
While at Bucknell, Bango broke the six-year-old indoor record in the 800 meters by more than four seconds, and that time of 2:09.08 still stands as the school mark today. Her best outdoor 800 time of 2:09.33 was also a school record, and today it stands second all-time. Bango's name still appears at the top of the Bucknell record board in five different relays, including the indoor 4x400 relay in which she and Daniels were part of the same foursome.
A six-time All-East performer, Bango was named to the Patriot League All-Decade Team and was the recipient of the Christy Mathewson Award as the top Bison athlete in her class. She was also an academic all-district honoree.
