Filanowski Inducted into Bucknell Hall of Fame
Muhlenberg cross country and track & field head coach Amy Filanowski was inducted into the Bucknell University Athletics Hall of Fame this past weekend.
As Amy Mantush, Filanowski was one of the most prolific and versatile athletes in the history of the Bison women's track and field program, a record-setting jumper and multi-athlete who was part of six Patriot League title-winning teams.
The 2010 graduate won seven individual gold medals and four silver medals at Patriot League Championships and was a two-time Patriot League field athlete of the meet. She won Patriot League outdoor titles in the high jump in 2007, the high jump and triple jump in 2009 and the long jump in 2010. She added indoor gold medals in the high jump in 2007, setting the Patriot League record in the process, and both the high jump and pentathlon in 2010. She was named the athlete of the meet following the 2009 Outdoor Championships and the 2010 Indoor Championships.
Mantush Filanowski's top indoor high jump of 5-8 during her freshman year broke a 21-year-old school record and held up all the way to 2024. Her school-record 5-7 outdoor high jump held up for 12 years. She graduated No. 2 all-time in the outdoor triple jump (39-1), behind only Hall-of-Famer Jill Wise, and she also graduated ranked fifth all-time in the heptathlon and second in the pentathlon.
A two-year team captain and a member of the Patriot League 25th Anniversary Team, she has remained in collegiate track and field as a coach. After stints at Allegheny and Misericordia, where she coached a Division III national champion in the women's high jump, she returned to her alma mater for a three-year term as assistant coach. She later moved on to Kutztown (2018-22) and is in her first full year as head coach with the Mules, following two as an assistant coach.
Mantush Filanowski was previously inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame in 2022 and the Hazleton Area Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
Pictured above is Filanowski with her husband, Brian, and son, Blake. Photo courtesy Bucknell University.
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