LEWISBURG – Five Bison standouts from the final 25 years, representing six totally different sports activities, have been elected to the Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame. The forty fifth Hall of Fame class will probably be formally inducted on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 10:30 a.m. within the Terrace Room within the Elaine Langone Center on campus.

The Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2023 contains: Mike Muscala, the lads’s basketball staff’s all-time main scorer who went on to turn out to be the primary Bucknell alum ever to play within the NBA; Andrew Powell, a real two-sport standout who was each an All-Patriot League soccer participant and a record-setting decathlete; KristaLee Gentile Mellott, a uncommon four-time All-Patriot League soccer honoree who is among the high scorers in staff historical past; Lauren Campbell Bruzek, a standout defender on the Bison area hockey staff who turned this system’s first All-American; Kristen Sandel, an impressive third baseman who helped lead the Bison softball staff to its first-ever league title in 1997.

The Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 1979 to honor the perfect within the historical past of Bison athletics. The interactive Hall of Fame show is positioned on the second ground of the Kenneth Langone Athletics and Recreation Center. This yr’s induction brings to 294 the variety of excellent student-athletes, coaches, directors, and buddies of Bucknell whose contributions are ceaselessly preserved within the Hall of Fame.