Sumner Darling Season 1990-91

Honors & Awards

• 1994 First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American
• 1994 Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight
• 1994 All-American (all-around)
• 1993 First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American
• 1993 Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight
• 1992 Third-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American
• 1992 All-American (parallel bars)
• 1992 Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight

1994: Senior Season
An All-American in the all-around, two-time All-American Sumner Darling captured fifth place in the all-around...one of the top student-athletes in the classroom in school history, joined an elite group of three-time CoSIDA Academic All-Americans across all sports by becoming a two-time first-team academic All-American in 1994...finished in seventh-place at the NCAA West Regional in the all-around (56.750)...won the horizontal bar at the Minnesota Triangular, posting a score of 9.70..earned Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight honors for the third consecutive year.

1993: Junior Season
At the NCAA Championships, Darling finished fourth in the all-around. Darling finished seventh in the floor exercise, but needed to place in the top six for All-America honors (teammate Richard Grace won the event)...won the all-around with a 56.40 in a dual with Penn State... set career bests with scores of 9.85 on the floor exercise and 9.75 on the still rings in a dual at New Mexico...finished second at the Big Eight Triangular with a 9.55 on the vault...captured first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American honors.

1992: Sophomore Season
Earned third-team COSIDA Academic All-America honors with a 3.755 grade-point average in electrical engineering...one of only five Huskers to compete in every meet of the season...led Nebraska with a 9.53 average on the horizontal bar...posted a career-high 9.75 on the event during a Feb. 2 dual with Ohio State and tied the mark March 1 in the Big Eight Triangular...his final NCAA three-score avarage in the horizontal bar was 9.72, which ranked 10th nationally...one of his four all-around appearances came at the NCAA Championships, where he posted a career-best 56.55...also at the championship meet, he scored career bests of 9.75 on the pommel horse and a 9.85 on the parallel bars, the latter of which was good enough for second-team All-America honors...finished 25th overall at the USA Championships.

1991: Freshman Season
Darling competed in every meet despite a nagging back injury and turned in team-best all-around scores of 55.55 at Ohio State and 55.45 at the Rocky Mountain Open...his 9.35 average on the parallel bars also led the team...had the 23rd-best socere among qualifiers for the 1991 USA Championships and finished 35th overall, two spots behind teammate Che Bowers.

Personal:
The son of Ann Darling, Sumner was born March 16, 1972...the electrical engineering major and 1990 graduate of Pocono Mountain High School has one brother, Glenn.