By John Painter
(Hamilton, NY – May 20, 2013) Student-athletes were well represented in Colgate University’s 2013 Awards Convocation, which took place Saturday as part of graduation weekend.
Track and field and cross country took home the Team Academic Excellence Award on the men’s side, while basketball earned women’s honors. Individually, lacrosse’s James Queeney, basketball’s Rebekah Ward, football’s Chris Looney, cross country/track and field’s Christopher Wendt, rowing’s Anna Bivins and sports medicine’s David Pudalov all received multiple awards.
Queeney was valedictorian for the Class of 2013. The Reading, Mass., native graduated summa cum laude as a double major in mathematics and mathematical economics, and also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In addition, Queeney earned the John T. (Jack) Mitchell Award for the second year in a row, presented to the student-athlete with the highest grade-point average. He also received the Osborne Mathematics Prize and once again was a Charles A. Dana Scholar.
Ward, a Montreal native, picked up the Joseph Huther Prize Fund and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Looney earned the Thomas M. Wilson ’67 Memorial Endowed Leadership Award, and the Verona, N.J. product was honored with the Paul O. Stillman ’55 Award for International Relations. Ward and Looney were both Dana Scholars.
Wendt, who hails from Oakland, Calif., was awarded the Valentine Piotrow German Prize, Douglas K. Reading ’33 History Prize and DAAD Summer Course Grant. Bivins notched the M. Holmes Hartshorne Memorial Award for Excellence in Religion presented for graduate studies. The Auburn, Calif., native also is a Fullbright Scholar to Sri Lanka. Pudalov picked up the Roy Burnett Smith Prize in Chemistry and the Bernard and Sydell Citron Pre-Medicine Scholastic Prize.
Wendt, and Pudalov were both Dana Scholars.
In addition, head coaches Ryan Baker and Dick Biddle also received their Howard Hartman Coach of the Year honors from the Colgate faculty.
Recipient Sport Award Name Department
Chibe Achuko FB Cleon O. Morgan Award Undergraduate Studies
Natalie Bauman ROW Award for Excellence in Spanish Studies Romance Languages
Anna Bivins ROW M. Holmes Hartshorne Memorial Award for Excellence Religion
Fulbrighr Scholar to Sri Lanka
Andrew Kephart T&F Edwin J. Downie ’33 Award Mathematics
Thomas Larkin IH Director of Athletics Award Athletics
Matthew Levitsky T&F George E. Stevenson Prize Public Speaking
Chris Looney FB Thomas M. Wilson ’67 Memorial Endowed Leadership Award Athletics
Paul O. Stillman ’55 Award International Relations
Charles A. Dana Scholar
David Pudalov SM Roy Burnett Smith Prize Chemistry
Bernard and Sydell Citron Pre-Medicine Scholastic Prize Health Sciences
Charles A. Dana Scholar
James Queeney LAX John T. (Jack) Mitchell Memorial Award Athletics
Osborne Prize Mathematics
Phi Beta Kappa Award
Charles A. Dana Scholar
Ashley Walsh SOC Gottesman Award for Excellence in the Sciences & Athletics Athletics
Rebekah Ward BB Joseph Huther Prize Fund Athletics
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
Charles A. Dana Scholar
Christopher Wendt CC/T&F Valentine Piotrow Prize German
Douglas K. Reading ’33 Prize History
DAAD Summer Course Grant
Charles A. Dana Scholar
Ryan Baker VB Howard Hartman Coach of the Year Faculty
Dick Biddle FB Howard Hartman Coach of the Year Faculty
Men’s Team Academic Excellence Award – Track and Field/Cross Country
Women’s Team Academic Excellence Award — Basketball