Amanda Trunzo is a former women's ice hockey player from Minnesota. In the NCAA, she competed for the Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey and was also named to the USA U-22 National team in 2010. Currently, she competes in Red Bull Crashed Ice, and is the first ever USA female to become the World Champion in 2017-18. She won the World Championship again in 2018-19 and is looking to become the first ever three peat World Champion.
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.
Trunzo first competed in Red Bull Crashed Ice at a race in 2012 in Quebec City, where she finished 4th overall. She was one of only five women that participated in the Red Bull Crashed Ice World Championships. 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. The second race, in Jyvaskyla-Laajis, Finland, saw Trunzo experienced a first-place finish for the first time in her Crashed Ice career. 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.
