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Rathke Earns AMCC Honorable Mention

Release Date:
October 24, 2009
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HAMBURG, NY— Senior Brian Rathke (Buffalo, NY/ Bishop Timon), was recently named to the AMCC All-Conference Honorable Mention Golf squad. Rathke was one of Hilbert’s top golfers throughout his four year collegiate career. He was among fifteen student athletes that were awarded for their 2009 golf performance being honored as conference first team, second team or honorable mention squad members.  To see the AMCC official page for the 2009 All Conference and Award Winners please click here

 
Penn State Behrend came away with the Player of the Year as well of Coach of the Year award after winning the AMCC Championship, securing an NCAA berth.
 
AMCC 2009 MEN’S GOLF ALL CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM
Joe Nelson                          Penn St. Behrend           
Jacob Blitz                           Penn St. Altoona            
Jon Austin                           La Roche College             
Pat Petragila                       Penn State Behrend      
Tyler Cozad                         Pitt-Bradford                    
 
AMCC ALL CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM
John Haberman                Medaille College
Mike Sliman                       La Roche College
Tom Skelton                       Pitt-Bradford
Chris Perry                         Penn St. Altoona
Mike Scheyd                       Penn St. Altoona
 
AMCC ALL CONFERENCE HONORABLE MENTION
Brian Rathke                      Hilbert College
Scott Petak                          Mt. Aloysius
Tim Devlin                           La Roche College
Luke Geisbrecht                Mt. Aloysius
Bruce Snyder                      Pitt- Bradford
 

Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs, one a master’s in criminal justice administration and the other a master’s in public administration, and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.