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Jersey Number 7
Walker Butler
- Position:
- Attacker
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Blue Bell, Pa.
- High School:
- Germantown Academy
2023 (Senior):Â Â In his senior season, Butler made significant contributions to the Bison team, tallying 18 goals, 11 blocks, and eight steals.
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2022 (Junior):Â Made 16 appearances for Bucknell, including a start against Princeton (9/10)...scored goal in season debut against Cal Lutheran (9/4), adding a steal and a drawn ejection...also added a goal against Fresno Pacific (10/23)...scored five goals overall.Â
2021 Fall (Sophomore): Appeared in 21 games for the Bison as a key reserve... scored 17 goals and added four assists...managed a goal in five straight games to open the season, including two against California Baptist (9/11)...chipped in career-best three assists in win over Johns Hopkins (10/17).Â
2021Spring (First Year): Appeared in three games for Bucknell as a first year...scored first career goal against No. 9 Navy (2/20/21). Â
Before Bucknell: Earned four varsity letters from water polo and swimming at Germantown Academy under Mike Koziol…Played club for Chelsea Piers Water Polo Club…named to All-Interac League Team each year of high school…Participated in Pennsylvania All-Star Game both sophomore and junior year…two-year team captain for water polo…also named swim team captain during senior year…holds all-time scoring record at Germantown Academy, as well as records as a freshman and junior in scoring.Â
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Personal: Walker Phillips Butler…born on 7/3/2001 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla…Has two siblings…Stuart and Peter…Father Tom Butler '82 played water polo at Bucknell, and still holds the single-season assists record…brother Peter runs cross country at Loyola Maryland.
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2022 (Junior):Â Made 16 appearances for Bucknell, including a start against Princeton (9/10)...scored goal in season debut against Cal Lutheran (9/4), adding a steal and a drawn ejection...also added a goal against Fresno Pacific (10/23)...scored five goals overall.Â
2021 Fall (Sophomore): Appeared in 21 games for the Bison as a key reserve... scored 17 goals and added four assists...managed a goal in five straight games to open the season, including two against California Baptist (9/11)...chipped in career-best three assists in win over Johns Hopkins (10/17).Â
2021Spring (First Year): Appeared in three games for Bucknell as a first year...scored first career goal against No. 9 Navy (2/20/21). Â
Before Bucknell: Earned four varsity letters from water polo and swimming at Germantown Academy under Mike Koziol…Played club for Chelsea Piers Water Polo Club…named to All-Interac League Team each year of high school…Participated in Pennsylvania All-Star Game both sophomore and junior year…two-year team captain for water polo…also named swim team captain during senior year…holds all-time scoring record at Germantown Academy, as well as records as a freshman and junior in scoring.Â
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Personal: Walker Phillips Butler…born on 7/3/2001 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla…Has two siblings…Stuart and Peter…Father Tom Butler '82 played water polo at Bucknell, and still holds the single-season assists record…brother Peter runs cross country at Loyola Maryland.
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