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Kerry Boyle Receives Senior Athletic Award at Bucknell
Bison Men's Track and Field Star Receives Bison Club Award at Annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet

April 28, 2009

LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell senior Kerry Boyle (Conyngham, Pa./Hazleton), one of the best sprinters in Bucknell’s history, received a special award at the University’s annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held in Terrace Room on Tuesday, April 28.

Boyle won the Bison Club Award, presented to the senior athletes “who best exemplify the winning spirit of the University’s athletic program.” Boyle shared the award with Jennifer Dervarics of the women’s soccer team, who was the female selection.

No stranger to exemplifying the winning sprit, Boyle has won four times at the Patiot League Championships, including a 200-400-meter double at the 2007 Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Championships. Boyle owns school records in the 300 and 400 distances indoors as well as the 4x400 and sprint medley relays. Outdoors, Boyle owns the 200 record as well. Overall, Boyle is present on Bucknell’s indoor and outdoor all-time lists a total of 17 times.

The Conyngham, Pa., native is a mathematics major and has been named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. Boyle is a three-time recipient of All-Patriot League honors indoors and outdoors.

Boyle is the Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Championships record holder in the 400, when he clocked 48.36 in 2007.

Bucknell is a highly-selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of 3,583 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 14 of 18 years, including 10 of the last 11.