Hartford, Conn., May 2 - Women’s indoor and outdoor track and field co-captain Amanda Rival (Berlin, Conn.) was named the recipient of the Trinity College 2000-01 Trinity Club of Hartford Award as the College’s top senior female athlete.

Rival is a four-time All-England pentathlete, a three-time All-Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) selection, and has won the New England Pentathlon Championship title the past two years for the indoor track squad. She posted a College-record score in the pentathlon of 3,310 this season, and posted the team’s season-best results in the shot put, long jump, high jump, 55-meter high hurdles, and 200-meter dash.

In outdoor track, Rival is a three-time All-New England selection, a two-time All-NESCAC selection, and an All-ECAC member in 1999. She won the New England Heptathlon Championship title in 1999 and 2000, and finished fifth to earn All-American honors in the heptathlon in 1999. She posted a College-record score in the heptathlon of 4,658 this season in a second-place finish at the Penn Relays, which qualified her for the NCAA Division III National Championships for the third time. Rival also recorded the team’s season-best results in the shot put, long jump, high jump, javelin, 100-meter hurdles, and 200-meter dash this spring.