Alina Danilchenko Becomes Third LIU Gymnast to Earn EAGL Rookie of Week Honors

By: Adam Rubin Story Links BROOKVILLE, N.Y. — Make it 4-for-4! For the fourth straight time in which the LIU gymnastics team has competed this season, a freshman member of the team has subsequently walked away with the EAGL Rookie of the Week honor. This time, Alina Danilchenko earned the top rookie award on Wednesday, sharing it with Towson’s Retoshia Halsell. Danilchenko, a freshman film major from Orlando, scored 9.7 on the vault, 9.8 on the balance beam and 9.875 on the floor exercise on Sunday at the Empire State Collegiate Challenge in upstate Ithaca. The balance beam and floor…