University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels Notch Top Honors At EAGL Awards Banquet
March 24, 2005 | Women's Gymnastics
March 24, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina had a big presence at the East Atlantic Gymnastics League's Annual Awards Banquet Friday with first-team All-EAGL selections on every event, an outstanding senior and a top student. Olivia Trusty is the 2005 Senior of the Year, and senior Amy Williams is the EAGL Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
A four-time All-EAGL first-team honoree this season, Trusty has earned 12 all-league honors in her career with the Tar Heels. She is the top senior all-arounder in the EAGL this season and is currently ranked among the top six overall in three events in addition to the all-around. Trusty posted season-high scores of 9.875 on the vault on two occasions and has two of the top three scores on bars with two 9.9s in a three-week span.
Trusty also tied Gymnast of the Year Amanda Hall's EAGL-season-best score of 39.425 in the all-around against Rutgers and William & Mary on Feb. 19. She has four all-around scores of 39.1 points or higher in her senior season. Trusty joined Brooke Wilson (2001) as the only Tar Heels to be named EAGL Senior Gymnast of the Year.
Williams is the third Tar Heel to win the EAGL Scholar-Athlete Award and the first in six years since Jen DeLuca in 1999. Molly Gardner received the award in 1997. A four-time EAGL All-Academic Team honoree and a four-time NACGC/W Academic All-America, Williams was inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society in the fall of 2004 and was an academic team captain for her squad the last two seasons.
A solid performer on vault and floor, Williams was recently admitted into medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and will graduate UNC in May with a degree in biology and a minor in chemistry.
Trusty and Williams were joined by teammates Courtney Bumpers, Christine Robella and Elisabeth Alsop at the awards banquet. Junior Bumpers was a first-team selection for three events - vault, balance beam and floor exercise - where she has been so honored every year of her collegiate career. She was a unanimous pick this season on vault, where she has the second-highest 2005 score in the EAGL (9.925), and she was also named to the second team in the all-around.
Sophomore Robella was a first-team pick in the all-around for the second straight year and was named to the second team on vault, uneven bars and floor exercise. Senior Alsop was awarded for the first time in her career with a first-team selection on uneven bars.
The Tar Heels will compete in the 10th EAGL Championship Friday at 6 p.m. at Reynold's Coliseum on the campus of N.C. State.
VAULT
First Team
* Courtney Bumpers (3)
Olivia Trusty (3)
Second Team
Christine Robella
UNEVEN BARS
First Team
Elisabeth Alsop
Olivia Trusty
Second Team
Christine Robella
BALANCE BEAM
First Team
Courtney Bumpers (3)
FLOOR EXERCISE
First Team
Courtney Bumpers (3)
Olivia Trusty (2)
Second Team
Christine Robella
ALL-AROUND
First Team
Christine Robella (2)
Olivia Trusty (2)
Second Team
Courtney Bumpers
* denotes unanimous selection
(2) two-time All-EAGL first-team selection
(3) three-time All-EAGL first-team selection
