Amanda Trunzo Explained

Position:Forward
Height Ft:5
Height In:4
Team:Dartmouth
League:Hockey East
Birth Date:30 August 1989
Birth Place:Andover, Minnesota, USA
Career Start:2007
Career End:2011

Amanda Trunzo (born August 30, 1989) is a former women's ice hockey player from Minnesota. In the NCAA, she competed for the Dartmouth Big Green and was also named to the USA U-22 National team in 2010.[1] She competes in Red Bull Crashed Ice and was the first American to become the World Champion in 2017–18. She won the World Championship again in 2018-19.[2]

Athletic career

Ice hockey

In Minnesota, Trunzo played hockey for two different schools. She spent three years at Andover High School and was the captain in every season. Trunzo transferred to Benilde-St. Margaret's and was a two-year member of their women's hockey team. In her final season, she was selected as the team captain, while helping Benilde-St. Margaret's to a North Suburban Conference Championship, along with a Section 6AA title as the school compiled a record of 26-4-1.

NCAA

During the 2010–11 Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey season, she became the 32nd player in program history to score 100 points in a career.

Red Bull Crashed Ice

Trunzo first competed in Red Bull Crashed Ice at a race in 2012 in Quebec City, where she finished 4th overall.[3] She was one of only five women (among 164 qualifiers) that participated in the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championships (downhill ice-track racing).[4] During the 2015-16 Crashed Ice season, Trunzo was a member of Team USA, finishing 8th overall in the world rankings.

To begin the 2016-17 Crashed Ice season, Trunzo finished in second place in the opening race, contested in Marseilles, France.[5] The second race, in Jyvaskyla-Laajis, Finland, saw Trunzo experienced a first-place finish for the first time in her Crashed Ice career.[6]

In 2017–18, Trunzo started off the season with a first-place finish in St Paul, MN and continued that momentum to the next race of the season where she earned another first-place finish in Jyväskylä, Finland. For the next stop in Marseille France she found herself on the podium for a second-place finish and finished out the year in Edmonton with a first-place finish. She was crowned the 2017-18 Red Bull Crashed Ice World Champion and became the first ever USA Woman to win it.

The 2018-19 Red Bull Crashed Ice season came and Trunzo once again started the season off strong winning the first race of the season in Yokohama, Japan. Her winning streak didn't stop there as she made it an undefeated season winning the next two stops in Jyväskylä Finland and Boston, Massachusetts. She was crowned the 2018-19 Red Bull Crashed Ice World Champion for the second year in a row.

Awards and honors

Career stats

Season GP G A PTS PIM
2007-08 311161728
2008-09 3422204232
2009-10 2718153333
2010-11 3217183510
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Personal life

At Dartmouth, Trunzo volunteered at Athletes United, a mentoring program to reach out to the community.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Senior Amanda Trunzo Named to U.S. Under-22 National Select Team. Dartmouth Sports . 2010-06-19. 2017-02-03.
  2. Web site: Jyvaskyla-Laajis, Finland 21 Jan 2017. Red Bull Crashed Ice. 2017-02-03.
  3. Web site: Athlete Information: Amanda Trunzo . Red Bull Crashed Ice . n.d.. 2017-02-03.
  4. Web site: Sugar, spice and downhill on ice. Star Tribune.
  5. Web site: Marseille 14 Jan 2017 . Red Bull Crashed Ice . n.d.. 2017-02-03.
  6. Web site: Jyvaskyla-Laajis, Finland 21 Jan 2017. Red Bull Crashed Ice. n.d.. 2017-02-03.
  7. Web site: Dartmouth Captains . ECAC Hockey . 2009-05-05. 2017-02-03.
  8. Web site: 11 Ivies Nominated for the 2010 Patty Kazmaier Award - Ivy League . 2017-02-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085615/http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/sports/wice/2009-10/releases/11_ivies_nominated_for_the_2010_patty_kazmaier_award.htm . 2017-02-04 . dead .
  9. Web site: ECAC Women's Weekly Awards 02.22.2011. ECAC Hockey. 2011-02-22. 2017-02-03.
  10. http://www.uscho.com/stats/player/wid,5904/amanda-trunzo/ Amanda Trunzo