University of North Carolina Athletics
Bucy Named First-Team Academic All-America
August 22, 2001 | Men's Soccer
Apr. 17, 2001
April 17, 2001
Chapel Hill, N.C. -- Former University of North Carolina men's soccer player Michael Bucy on Tuesday was named a first-team academic All-America for the second consecutive season. Bucy, a senior at UNC this year, was named to the 2000-01 Verizon Academic All-America University Division Men's Fall-Winter At-Large First Team.
A native of Raleigh, N.C., Bucy boasts a 3.95 grade point average with a major in economics and a minor in business. One of the nation's top scholar-athletes, Bucy attends Carolina on a prestigious Morehead academic scholarship. He was named a first-team GTE Academic All-America as a junior after earning third-team honors as a sophomore.
Earlier this spring, Bucy was named Academic All-District for the third consecutive year. In February, he received a Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The scholarships are awarded to selected senior student-athletes in the ACC who have intentions of continuing academic work as full-time graduate students. Bucy will receive $5,000 to use toward his graduate education.
On the field last fall, Bucy led the ACC and was sixth in the nation with 0.63 assists per game and a career-high 15 assists. The 15 assists tied the school record set by Victor Suarez in 1994. Bucy was named Second-Team All-ACC and was third on the Carolina team with a career-high 33 points. He was named to the All-ACC Tournament team after assisting on both of UNC's goals in the ACC Tournament, including Caleb Norkus' overtime game-winnner in the title game versus Virginia.
On Oct. 28 versus Wake Forest in the final regular-season home game of his career, Bucy recorded his first career hat trick and tied his career high with six points in the 4-1 win over the Demon Deacons. He was named ACC Player of the Week on Oct. 30 for his efforts.
ucy is very involved with public service on campus, having organized the UNC Children's Dance Marathon in both 1999 and 2000. He received the Tatum Award in April 2000 for athletic performance and University and community service. He also was awarded the ACC Top Six for Service Award given for community service.
