Bhutta And Buchheit To Receive Ernest B. McCoy Memorial Award
April 25, 2001
University Park, Pa. –Two seniors, Omar J. Bhutta and Beth Buchheit, will receive the Ernest B. McCoy Memorial Award during the University’s annual Student Awards Ceremony at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 29, at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.
The McCoy Award is presented to student-athletes who successfully combine athletic participation with academic excellence. It is named for a past dean of the former College of Physical Education who was also once Penn State’s athletic director.
A member of the Fencing Team with a specialization in the foil, Bhutta, of Pittsburgh, will graduate next month from the Engineering Science program. In addition to serving as a tutor in the College of Engineering, he was fencing team manager for two years and a contributor to the team’s 2000 NCAA Championship victory and its second place showing in the 2001 competition.
A Cross Country/Track and Field Teams member, Buchheit also sits on the Student-Athlete Advisory Board while majoring in Nutrition with a minor in Kinesiology. The Greensburg native will graduate this semester having been an all Big Ten Academic honoree four years in a row, a research assistant for several Health and Human Development studies, and a teaching assistant for two introductory nutrition classes.
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Contact: Gary W. Cramer at (814) 865-7517 or gwc104@psu.edu