Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Field Hockey's Amanda Faust and Trina Boyer Receive All-Region Honors
11/19/2008 7:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
Nov. 19, 2008
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell seniors Trina Boyer (Macungie, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) and Amanda Faust (Kingston, Pa/Wyoming Valley West) received 2008 Longstreth/NFHCA Division I All-Mideast honors on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Faust was named to the first team for the third consecutive season, while Boyer was a second team selection. The duo helped to lead the Bison to an 11-win season and an appearance in the Patriot League Tournament championship game, and received All-Patriot League Tournament team honors for their efforts.
Faust, a co-captain of the Orange and Blue, is the first Bison field hockey player to be a three-time all-region selection, and one of two Bison players to be a four-time All-Patriot League honoree. Earlier this year Faust was the only Patriot League player selected as a NFHCA All-Star. This past summer, Faust was selected by the Pennsylvania High Performance Training Center to represent the state on its High Performance Squad.
An accounting major, Faust finished the season ranked third in the Patriot League in scoring (32 points), and in the top-five in goals (11) and assists (10), setting or tying personal career highs in all three categories. Her 32 points are the fifth best single-season total in Bucknell history. Faust is the first player in Bison history to have at least 10 assists in more than one season, tallying 10 in both 2006 and this year. She is the program's all-time leader in assists with 34, ranks fifth in Bucknell history in goals (29) and her 92 career points places her third. Faust was been named both offensive and defensive player of the week by the league this season, and has accumulated five weekly awards from the conference over her career. She was the Patriot League Co-Rookie of the Year in 2005.
Boyer, a two-time All-Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and NFHCA All-Academic Squad selection, has set new career highs this season in games started (19), shots (29), points (23), goals (10) and assists (three). A first time all-conference selection, she placed fifth in the conference goals and seventh in points. Bucknell had a 6-0 record in games when Boyer scored a goal this season, and an 11-2 mark over the past two years. Boyer's 17 goals over the past two seasons are the most of any Bison player, and she led the team, and ranked third in the conference, with four game-winning goals this season.
Two of those game-winning goals came in back-to-back multi-goal games for Boyer. She registered a hat trick, marking only the fifth time in the last 10 seasons that a Bucknell player has scored at least three goals in a game, in the Orange and Blue's 3-1 win over Georgetown on Oct. 19. Boyer than scored two goals in the last five minutes of Bucknell's 4-3 victory against Colgate on Oct. 25, including the game-winner with 77 seconds remaining in regulation. Perhaps her biggest game of the season came against Lafayette in the semifinals of the league tournament, when she scored two goals in the Bison's 4-2 upset victory. Boyer, a double major in economics and political science, was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week, following her performance against Colgate, and she also had a two-goal game against the Raiders in 2006, giving her four multi-goal games in her career. With 22 career goals, Boyer will graduate as the 11th leading goal scorer in program history.
