LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior Andy Rendos (Brockway, Pa./Brockway Area), a member of the Bison wrestling team, received a special award at the University's annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Bison Club and held at the Elaine Langone Center on Tuesday, May 4.

Rendos won the Christy Mathewson Award, presented to "the outstanding senior athletes." Rendos shared the award with Courtney Warren of the women's swimming and diving team, who was the female selection.

The second two-time All-American in program history, Rendos finished in sixth place in the 165-pound bracket at this year's NCAA Championships. The sixth-place finish followed a fifth-place showing in 2009.

One of just three wrestlers in Bucknell history to qualify for four NCAA Championships, Rendos posted a 33-7 record in 2009-10 and finished his career with a program-record 121 victories. He became Bucknell's first-ever EIWA individual champion and posted 24 career pins, good for seventh in program annals.

Rendos went 5-3 at the 2010 NCAA Championships and claimed 12 victories at the national tournament in his career. He is second on the Bucknell single-season wins list (33) and tied for 10th on the single-season winning percentage list (.825).

Bucknell is a highly selective, privately endowed liberal arts institution with an enrollment of approximately 3,500 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 15 of 19 years, including 11 of the last 12.