Sacramento State

Amber Larsen joined the Sacramento State track & field program in the fall of 2015. She works primarily with the long jump, triple jump and high jump athletes and coordinates the team’s travel.

Larsen most recently served at High Point University where she was assistant coach of men's and women's track & field for four seasons. Larsen assisted in all aspects of the Panthers' program and worked primarily with HPU's jumpers and hurdlers. In 2014-15, Larsen coached junior Will Narramore to a runner-up finish in the men’s triple jump at the Big South Conference Championships. In 2013-14, Larsen coached sophomore Dennis Crawford to a Big South title in the 60-meter hurdles and 110-meter hurdles, breaking the school record in the 60m hurdles and qualifying for the first round of the NCAA championships in the 110-meter hurdles. In 2012-13, Larsen coached Crawford to a runner-up finish in the 110-meter hurdles and a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles at the Big South Outdoor Championship.

Prior to High Point, Larsen spent six years at Wake Forest where she coached 14 student-athletes to school-record performances and helped 14 student-athletes qualify for the first round of the NCAA Championships. Larsen helped Michelle Loyd qualify for the 2008 NCAA Championship in the 400-meter hurdles after a sixth-place finish in the regional meet. Larsen also coached 400-meter runner Jon Reid, who was Canadian junior national champion and placed fourth at the 2008 Canadian Olympic Trials.

While coaching at Wake Forest, Larsen also coached current Sacramento State assistant coach Eric Dudley to a 10th-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles in the 2008 Olympic Trials.

Before Wake Forest, Larsen spent two years as a volunteer assistant coach with the Illinois women's track and field team. With the Illini, Larsen gained experience coaching sprints, hurdles, jumps, multi-events and middle distance. In 2005, Illinois captured the Big Ten Conference Championship.

Larsen also spent two years at Idaho as an assistant track and field and cross country coach. Larsen helped lead the Vandals to the Big West cross country crown in 2002 and to the 2003 track & field conference championship.

As a student-athlete, Larsen was the NCAA Div. III national champion in the 400-meter hurdles while competing for Linfield College in 2001. She was honored as NCAA Woman of the Year in Oregon and earned All-America honors three times during her career – twice in the 400-meter hurdles and once in the indoor 400-meter.

Larsen's other 2001 honors include the Western Regional Female Athlete of the Year, the Northwest Conference Female Athlete of the Year and the Linfield College Female Athlete of the Year.

Larsen graduated from Linfield College in 2001 with a B.A. in health education and a minor in Spanish. In 2003, she earned her M.S. in physical education at Idaho, where she majored in physical education with an emphasis in exercise physiology.

She is married to Sacramento State assistant coach Eric Dudley, and the two welcomed a daughter, Charlotte, in 2011.