UMaine’s Bunyan receives Rudolph award

ORONO – University of Maine women’s track and field student-athlete Carly Bunyan has been named one of the four 2005 recipients of the Wilma Rudolph Student Athlete Achievement Award presented by the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletes. Bunyan, a native of Troy, Nova Scotia, participates in the triple jump, with a season-best of 11.15 meters this season. Bunyan and her fellow recipients will be honored at the N4A Convention/Awards Luncheon on June 12 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bunyan scored in the triple jump in all meets during the 2001-02 season as a freshman. She did not participate in track in the 2002-03 season as she battled a brain tumor, but returned in limited action in the 2003-04 season. An anthropology major, Bunyan was named to the America East Academic Honor Roll in 2004 and is also a Maine Scholar-Athlete silver medalist.