OGDEN, Utah – Amber Anderson of the Northern Arizona track and field team was honored by the Big Sky Conference for her NCAA provisional mark she set in the triple jump this past weekend at the NAU Team Challenge. Her leap of 41-8.5 puts her in a tie for the 18th-best jump in the country, and gives her another Big Sky Women's Field Athlete of the Week award for the indoor season.

Sprints, jumps and hurdles coach Wiley King feels that since Anderson has arrived on campus she has continued to work hard for everything she has earned.

“She is working really hard on her technique,” King said. “In the weight room she made a real big commitment to getting a new weight lifting PR (personal record). She is really embracing a lot of the jump specific techniques we are working on.”

King also believes that she is not quite done extending her season-best marks.

“I actually think she has some more in there,” King said. “We have a couple of things that we have been working on specifically. I think that is going to give her a chance to get a lot better. She has just been working her butt off.”

Anderson's name continues to be at the top of the Big Sky performance list in the long and triple jump. In the regional rankings by event that came out Tuesday afternoon from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, the junior leads the Mountain Region in the triple jump (41-8.5), and is third in the long jump (19-11.75).

Anderson and the rest of the Lumberjacks return to action this weekend when they host the NAU Invitational at the Walkup Skydome Saturday.

2010 Indoor Track & Field Big Sky Athletes of the Week

Amber Anderson, Women's Field (1/05, 2/09)
Curtis Durocher, Men's Field (2/02)
Matt Holtfrerich, Men's Track (1/05)
Javier Villarreal Men's Field (1/05, 1/19)
Charles White Men's Field (1/26)