Hall of Fame
The most decorated player in school history, it's fitting that James Bechtel is the first golfer to earn induction into the Athletics Hall of Fame. A CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-District selection as a senior and a 2006 Middle Atlantic Conference Scholar-Athlete, the highest honor given by the conference, the Muncy Valley, Pa., native was vital to the Warriors emergence in the Middle Atlantic Conference. Bechtel thrived at conference championships, finishing sixth in the 2004 Middle Atlantic Conference tournament and he became the first Warrior in school history to earn two all-conference honors in a career when he tied for second with teammate Jordan Isenberg at the 2005 Freedom Conference tournament. He has the lowest career stroke average (81.0) in school history and his 78.21 average in 2004 is also the lowest. During his career, he posted seven career top-10 finishes, three top-five efforts and he won the Lebanon Valley Spring Invitational in 2005. In the classroom, Bechtel was even more proficient, earning the John G. Hollenback Award, given for the highest academic performance and outstanding service in the business department, the Charles J. Kocian Award as the business major showing the greatest proficiency in statistics, the James E. Wehr Financial Accounting Award for demonstrating a personal expertise in the subject of financial accounting, and the Faculty Prize, given to a senior computing student who participated in student activities and who is in the upper half of the class. Bechtel is a manager at PwC, an accounting firm in Philadelphia.
