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Student-Athletes Receive Academic Honors

Twenty-Five Awards Presented to 12 Colgate Student-Athletes; Men’s Track, Women’s Basketball Also Honored

Colgate honored 12 student-athletes with 25 academic awards.
Complete Senior Award Winners List

HAMILTON –
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.

Ward, Looney, Wendt and Pudalov also were 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
Matt 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
Courtney O'Connell  SB      Director of Athletics Award                                               Athletics

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
Quincey Spagnoletti LAX     Gary M. Hoffer Prize for Excellence in Photography                        Art & Art History

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
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