Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame The Bucknell Athletics Hall of Fame was estab- Jill Henry-Feeney ’81, a member of the Hall of Fame Class of 1993, belished in 1979 to honor the very best in the hiscame the third Bison tory of Bucknell athletics. Six new members were in history to serve as inducted in the fall of this year as members of the a captain in three Class of 2016. Former women’s basketball player sports - basketball, Vicki Quimby Nigrini is a member of that class field hockey and softand the program’s newest honoree. Two hundred ball. A transfer from fifty-one outstanding student-athletes, coaches, Union College, she administrators and friends of Bucknell are now became a three-year honored, and their contributions to Bucknell Athletstarter in all three sports, leading the ics are forever preserved in the Hall.
basketball team in scoring in her junior and senior years. Her 9.6 career reBarbara Castens-Seidell ’79 joined her classmate, Karin Wegener Knisely ‘79, as the first women to bounding average still ranks second on Bucknell’s all-time list. In 1979, she played sweeper on the field hockey team be inducted into that placed seventh in the AIAW Division I national tournathe Bucknell Hall ment, and batted .286 as a pitcher and catcher in softball. of Fame in 1985. Henry was the school’s first Academic All-American in Both women set women’s basketball. She graduated magna cum laude records in basketand was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. ball, field hockey and lacrosse, and Stacey Spitko-Reeder ’88 was inducted into the Hall excelled academiof Fame in 1995. Spitko was a starter in every basketball cally as well. game of her career (111) and all but two softball games. Castens-Seidell She is the 11th-leading scorer of all-time at Bucknell was a basketball with 1,220 points and the all-time assist leader with an and field hockey co-captain as well as a member of the lacrosse team. In East Coast Conference record of 661. Spitko led the ECC basketball she held records for season (18.7) and career in assists for three straight years and earned Second (15.0) rebounding average. She is also ranked sixth on Team Academic Allthe all-time scoring list with a career-average of 12.8. America honors. In She was drafted by the Houston Angels of the Women’s softball, Spitko set 14 school records Professional Basketball League. Named Bucknell’s Outstanding Multiple Sport Athlete and received Allin her class, Castens-Seidell graduated with honors as ECC recognition a geology major, going on to Johns Hopkins University as an outfielder in 1988. She also won to get her PhD. the ECC ScholarKarin Wegener Knisely ’79 was the first person in Athlete and was 40 years to be captain of three sports at Bucknell - named an Acafield hockey, basketball and lacrosse. In field hockey demic All-American she holds numerous school records, including goals in in 1987 and 1988. a career (55) and goals in a season Ann Kirwin Anderson ’87 is a member of the Hall’s (21 in 1979). In Class of 1998. Kirwin was a four-year basketball letterwinher basketball ca- ner and a co-captain of the team in her junior and senior reer, she averaged years. She was the first woman to score 1,000 points in 10.8 ppg and 7.2 her basketball career at Bucknell. rpg, with her latter The school record holder at graduation with 1,343 figure placing her points, Kirwin also formerly held four other school records. second in Bucknell She still ranks on Bucknell’s all-time scoring list, and is history at the time in the top five in four other career statistical categories. of her graduation. In 1986 she was named to the American Women’s Sports As well as being an Federation All-America second team, the All-Northeast outstanding student-athlete, Knisely was a Dean’s List Region first team and the All-East Coast Conference member six times as a biology major, and received the second team. outstanding senior athlete award from the Bison Club. Kirwin was also Upon graduation from Bucknell she earned a master of selected to the Acascience degree from the University of New Hampshire, demic All-America and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for Second Team in research in freshwater biology at the University of Kon- b o t h 19 8 6 a n d stantz in Germany. 1987, was the ECC Scholar-Athlete in women’s basketball in 1986, and was the co-winner of the Christy Mathewson Award as Bucknell’s outstanding senior athlete in 1987.
Jennifer Walz Lapioli ’89 is a member of the Hall’s Class of 1999. Walz was a four-year basketball letterwinner and a co-captain of the team in her junior year. She was the first woman to score 2,000 points in her basketball career at Bucknell. More significantly, Walz is the only Bucknell athlete to have been selected to the Academic AllAmerica First Team three consecutive years. She brought national attention to Bucknell with her selection by the United States Basketball Writers Association as their Outstanding Scholar-Athlete in 1988-89. Walz was a three-time All-East Coast Conference selection, and in 1988-89 was chosen as the conference’s Player of the Year. Until Molly Creamer surpassed her in 2002-03, she continued to hold the school record in points scored in a career. During her senior year she set records with 619 points and a 22.1 points-per-game average that were both later surpassed by Creamer. In addition, Walz set the ECC career scoring record during her tenure at Bucknell. Walz was the first Bison women’s basketball player to have her jersey retired. It currently adorns the east wall of the concourse in Sojka Pavilion. Lynne Walshaw ’89 is a member of the Hall’s Class of 2000. Walshaw was an All-ECC selection in both basketball and softball during her career at Bucknell. In the gymnasium, she scored 1,209 points and grabbed 678 rebounds, and still holds the Bucknell single-season record for field goal percentage. A tenacious defensive player, Walshaw also holds the Bucknell all-time record for steals with 316. Margaret Philleo Ricci ’79 is a member of the Hall’s
Class of 2002. Philleo Ricci was one of Bucknell’s top woman athletes of her era, competing in field hockey, basketball and lacrosse. Philleo Ricci was a three-year member of the women’s basketball team and received the Scholar Athlete Award in 1979. In field hockey, she was selected to the Susquehanna All-Star Team three straight years. She played on the Mideast Regional tournament team all four years at Bucknell and was selected to the all-mideast second team. As a member of the lacrosse squad, Philleo Ricci was named to the All-Central Pennsylvania second-team.
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