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2002 Nike Athletes of the Year

the dominant high school track and field athletes
of the 2001-2002 school year

Amber Trotter

2002, Ukiah CA


Dominance is the only word to describe Amber Trotter's cross country season. From her tearful return from anorexia at the Great Race of the Great Bay in San Francisco September 8 to the Foot Locker national finals at Disney World 3 months later, the story unfolds with metronomic regularity. League meet or national championship -- makes no difference. Trotter goes out the first mile in 5:05, no one goes with her, Trotter never comes back to the field, Trotter wins as she pleases. The margins are staggering, as are the records. Mt. SAC: winning margin 1:47, course record by 22 seconds. California State Meet: winning margin 45 seconds. Foot Locker West Regional: winning margin 43 seconds. Foot Locker national finals: winning margin 40 seconds, course record by 30 seconds. Everyone wondered what Trotter would do on the track, but after running a 10:24.30 2-mile in a local meet in March (good for US#4 for the season), Amber was sidelined by injury. Her next race will be for Middlebury College, last year's Division III cross country national champion.

Foot Locker West, Mt. SAC


photo by Brian Myers, PhotoRun

Foot Locker national finals, Disney World


photo by Victah Sailor

 

Date
Event
Perf
Notes Meet
2002-03-16
G-2Mile
#1 10:24.30
c - Ukiah CA Leprechaun Classi
2001-12-08
5K-XC
#1 16:24
5k - Disney World FL FL Nationals
2001-12-01
5K-XC
#1 17:14
5k - Mt. SAC CA FL WE Seeded
2001-11-24
5K-XC
#1 17:01
5k - Woodward Pk, Fresno CA State Div 1
2001-11-17
3M-XC
#1 16:15
3 mi - Hayward CA NCS finals Div 1
2001-11-02
3M-XC
#1 16:31
2.97m - Spring Lake, S Rosa CA North Bay Lg
2001-10-20
3M-XC
#1 16:16
2.91m - tough, very hilly, sha CA Mt. SAC Inv
2001-10-06
5K-XC
#1 16:55
5k - Woodward Park, Fresno CA Clovis Inv
2001-09-22
3M-XC
#1 17:01
3m - HI Iolani Inv
2001-09-08
5K-XC
#1 17:21
5k - Golden Gate Pk, SF CA Great Bay Race

 

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