AMBER CAMPBELL

Event: Hammer Throw
Height: 5-7
Weight: 200
PRs: HT - 70.33m/230-9 (2007); WT - 24.54m/80-6.25 (2007)
Born: June 5, 1981 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Current Residence: Conway, S.C.
High School: Pike (Indianapolis, Ind.) HS '99
College: Costal Carolina (SC) '04
Coach: Dr. David Vandergriff
Agent: Self
Club: Mjolnir

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; two-time USA Indoor champion ('07, '08); 2005 USA Outdoors runner-up; 2-time USA Indoors runner-up (’05 & ’06); 3rd at 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials; 5-time NCAA All-American

Campbell qualified for her first-ever Olympic Games for Team USA with her runner-up performance at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials...was a member of the 2005 World Outdoor Championships team that traveled to Helsinki where she placed 9th in Group B in the qualifying rounds...She competed for the Lady Chanticleers of Coastal Carolina University from 2000-04, becoming a five-time NCAA All-American in the hammer and weight throw. She also won 16 individual Big South Conference titles during her collegiate career in the indoor weight throw and shot put, and outdoor shot put, hammer throw and discus…was named the Big South Women’s Track Athlete of the Year her last three years…enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2004 finishing third at the USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in the weight throw with a new collegiate record mark of 22.24m/72-11.75, and finished in third-place at the 2004 NCAA Championships in the hammer throw. Campbell is in her second year as a volunteer assistant coach for throwers at Coastal Carolina after finishing her career as one of the most distinguished athletes of all-time.

2008: Olympic Trials runner-up (69.24m/227-02)...9th in Group B qualifying at Olympic Games (67.86m/222-8)...USA Indoor champion (23.23m/76-2.25)...1st at Mt. SAC (70.19m/230-3)
2007: 5th at USA Outdoors (68.07m/223-4)...USA Indoor champion (24.54m/80-6.25)...1st at Provo (70.33m/230-9)...1st at Penn Relays (68.76m/225-7)...ranked #4 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 70.33m/230-9.
2006: 3rd at USA Outdoors (67.52m/221-6)…USA Indoor champs WT runner-up (22.66m/74-4.25)…3rd in Penn Relays (67.19m/220-5)…2nd at Road to Eugene (67.36m/221-0)…ranked #3 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 67.52m/221-6.
2005: 3rd at USA Outdoors (68.95m/226-2)…9th in Group B at World Outdoors (65.48m/214-10)…USA Indoors weight throw runner-up (23.99m/78-8.5i)…3rd at Atlanta (69.44m/227-10PR)…1st at Conway (69.16m/226-11)…1st at Conway (69.13m/226-9)…1st in Charlotte (68.33/224-2)…1st at Lapua (68.23m/223-10)…1st at Johnson City (22.52m/73-10.75i)…1st at Clemson (22.07m/72-5i)…ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN…best of 69.44m/227-10.
2004: 3rd at U.S. Olympic Trials (65.98m/216-6)…3rd at the USA Indoors (22.24m/72-11.75)…1st at Gainesville (67.21m/220-6)…best of 67.21m/220-6.
2003: 4th at NCAA Outdoors (64.58m/211-10)…6th at USA Outdoors (64.02m/210-0)…best of 64.58m/211-10.
2002: 9th at NCAA Indoors (19.47m/63-10.5)…best of 19.47m/63-10.5.
2001: 7th at NCAA Outdoors (60.80m/199-6)…7th at NCAA Indoors (19.65m/64-5.75)…best of 60.80m/199-6.

08/18/08