April 29, 2008

LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior Corey Curnutte (Waterford, Mich./Detroit Country Day), a two-time All-Patriot League choice and a member of the Bison men's soccer team, received a special award at the University's annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held in Sojka Pavilion on Tuesday, April 29.

Curnutte won the Bryan-Humphreys Award, presented to the senior athlete "who has exhibited exceptional versatility within his/her sport, displaying outstanding achievement and the selfless determination to help the team succeed by contributing in a variety of ways." Curnutte shared the award with Hope Foster of the women's basketball team, who was the female selection.

In addition to Curnutte, several other student-athletes were honored at the banquet, including the winners of the Christy Mathewson Award, given to the most outstanding athletes in the senior class.

Curnutte was a First Team All-Patriot League selection last fall and also earned Third Team NSCAA All-Region honors. He netted a career-high four goals and dished out two assists for a career-high 10 points to rank fourth on the team while playing predominantly in the midfield.

A Second Team All-Patriot League choice in 2006 when he was also named to the Patriot League All-Tournament Team, Curnutte started at least 18 games every year of his career, including all 19 this past fall. Bucknell was 4-1-1 in games where he, a two-year team co-captain, registered at least one point in 2007.

A physical player, Curnutte started 75 career games and piled up five goals and eight assists for a career tally of 18 points.

Bucknell is a highly-selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 3,400 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 13 of 17 years, including nine of the last 10.

Recently, 17 Bison programs - the seventh-most in Division I - earned NCAA Public Recognition for having Academic Performance Rates in the top 10 percent nationally in their respective sport. In addition, Bucknell ranks fifth in Division I in the total number of CoSIDA Academic All-America selections, with 114 national Academic All-Americans since 1970.